The merchant Herz Seligmann Aschrott of Hochheim am Main owned a vineyard and lands in Hochheim and operated a linen trade in Kassel. In 1838, the family moved to Kassel. The son of Herz Seligmann Aschrott and his wife Regine, Sigmund Aschrott, who was born on June 14, 1826 still in Hochheim, returned to Kassel after his apprenticeship in a colonial wholesaler in Frankfurt, expanded his father's business and thus became the "father of the Kassel textile industry". He thus brought world renown to the Kassel linen industry.

The owner of the cigar factory H. Nördlinger was Eduard Nördlinger, who came from Pflaumloch. He was married to Betty, née Gerstle from Ichenhausen. One son of the couple was Dr. Julius Nördlinger, who studied medicine in Würzburg from 1909 and at the same time joined a field doctor regiment as a volunteer, to which he belonged until the end of the war. Julius Nördlinger received his doctorate in medicine in 1915. Military service was followed by training as a specialist in internal medicine at Augsburg's main hospital. He opened his own practice in 1920 in Augsburg at Bahnhofstraße 5.

On the square of the synagogue (in the Alte Synagogenstraße) two elements point to the historical place. A plate is embedded in the pavement with the information: "On this plot of land stood the synagogue of the Jewish community of Nordhorn from 1814 until its destruction on November 10, 1938", accompanied by a reconstruction drawing of the synagogue (by Erich Begalke). A memorial stone placed on this site by the Nordhorn City Youth Council in 1968 was lost for several years after it was stolen, but was then reinstalled after it was found.

The new cemetery has 37 gravestones. Originally there were 62 graves here, but after the war not all the graves destroyed by Nazi vandalism could be fully restored. 

• Fünf Gräber bear only Hebräish inscriptions,
• 31 stones show German and Hebräish characters,
• one stone – the für the Yugoslav soldier Mose Atijar – has only a German inscription.

On all gravestones can be found above two letters: „Pe – nun“ - the abbreviation for „Here rests ...“. Then, with an honorific introduction, the name of the deceased is mentioned and the date of death.

The origins of the Augsburg textile factory M.S. Landauer lie in Hürben. There, in 1833, the weaver Moses Samuel Landauer set up his own business and by 1835 was already working on twelve hand looms in the cellar of his house in Hürben. In 1847, he set up his first mechanical business in a leased former oil and sawmill in Neuburg an der Kammel. At that time, the product range included cotton fabrics, bedding, calico, linen, meubling, sackcloth and much more. With increasing mechanization of production, hand weaving decreases.