At the end of the 19th century, almost all German student fraternities no longer accepted Jews. Jewish fraternities were founded. "Fearless and faithful!" was the motto of the Berlin fraternity Sprevia, founded in 1894. Two years later it joined the "Kartell-Convent deutscher Studenten jüdischen Glaubens" (KC). The KC summarized its goals as follows: "The fraternities of the KC stand on the ground of German patriotic sentiment.

Jakob Herz (1748-1819) from Dietelsheim was the first Jewish owner. He was a cattle dealer and butcher as well as the circumciser (mohel) of the Jewish community. He established the Herz family foundation with 2200 gulden capital. He died childless in 1819 and his niece Fromet Herz took over the house with her husband Herz Judas Grabenheimer (1792-1833). After his death, the house fell to the horse dealer Jakob Herz in 1833, who moved to Mannheim in 1873. From 1873 to 1875, Salomon Herz was the owner.

In 1760, the cattle trader Abraham Gideon (1727-1796) from Nordstetten came to Hochberg as the first Schutzjude. In 1772 the Jewish community of Hochberg was founded and Abraham became the first head of the Jewish community. In 1777 he bought the former official house at Hauptstr. 13 from the cooper Wartinger, which Wartinger had in turn purchased in 1759. This marked the beginning of the determined acquisition of real estate by Jewish families in the former Vordere Gasse (today Hauptstraße).