In the 1830s, the Sternberg family came to Spandau from Poznan (Poland). From 1841 they ran a department store, the business was managed by several generations. At the beginning of the 1860s it was still a small business with four employees. But by the 1920s it had developed into a larger company with 50-100 employees. In 1927, the Sternberg department store bought new business premises in Breite Straße and Fischerstraße. It was mainly active in textile trade, selling clothes, curtains, carpets and fabrics. 

Martin Joachim Reichenbach, born on March 8, 1879 in Oederan, studied law in Leipzig, then lawyer at the Labor and Regional Court of Dresden and notary in his office, Wilsdruffer Straße 32. 1933 withdrawal of the license, henceforth only private clients. He was also an emigration advisor for the Jewish community in Dresden.

In Ottersdorferstraße 1 (formerly Hildastraße 1) was the inn of Löw Simson Altschul. Altschul was about 45 years old in 1812 when he married Rösle from Muggensturm, the widow of David Guggenheimer. He himself came from Ingenheim in the Palatinate. Eight children lived in Altschul's household, including two daughters from his first marriage.

In the house Murgstraße 6, which belonged to the wealthy Daniel Kassel and who was also called "Judenschultheiß" at times, there was a Jewish school, as well as a prayer room for holding services, at least since 1720. At that time the Jewish community was too poor to be able to afford its own synagogue.

The house of the castle street 2 belonged since 1873 to the synagogue executive Josef Altschul. Here Altschul operated the inn "Wilder Mann".

The house at Schlossstrasse 4 had been owned by the merchant Israel Salomon since the 1840s and was sold to the Wertheimer family in the 1860s. In 1920, Artur Wertheimer purchased it and set up a medical practice. However, Artur Wertheimer soon moved to Haag in Holland, where he can be traced to 1931 at the latest. In 1939, he had to sell the house, which he had bought for 75000 marks, far below its value,  since, according to the city administration, it allegedly had considerable redevelopment arrears.