The Benedikt-Elsas-Weg in Remseck-Aldingen is named after the textile entrepreneur Benedikt Elsas (1816-1876), who came from Aldingen, was the first Jew to be able to train as a weaver there and started his own weaving mill in 1844 at Schlößlesstraße 2 (Aldingen Old Schoolhouse).

In 1828, Benedikt Elsas (1816-1876), a Jew from Aldingen, was the first Jew to be able to serve an apprenticeship at the small Heinrich Erhardt cotton weaving mill in Aldingen. In 1838, he earned his master's certificate as a weaver and was now able to weave cotton and linen on his own account. In 1844, he acquired the old Aldingen schoolhouse and, together with his two brothers, operated the rapidly expanding weaving mill "Elsas & Comp." there with six looms in the basement of the house.

after Mastaler:

Stadtarchiv Güstrow (StA), StadtaktenBau der II. jüdischen Synagoge in der Schnoienstraße im Jahre 1826.

Synagogue was located on the site of the later monastery yard

Synagogue no longer exists

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s. on the history of the Güstrow Jewish pogrom of 1330 at: Kirchberg, Ernst von. Reimchronik aus dem Jahren 1378/79, I. cap. 112, pag.757-759, LHAS - according to Mastaler