Aldingen synagogue

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Seligmann Isaak buys the house in 1798 against the resistance of the Aldingen community council and converts it into a house synagogue. By 1799, an extension is completed at the rear, housing the synagogue in the attic. In 1815, the house becomes the property of Veit Löwenthal, whose grandson David sells it in 1872. This ended its use as a synagogue. In 1859, the synagogue was temporarily closed by the Freudental rabbinate, as the Aldingen Jews boycotted the service in order to prevent the introduction of a Reform service with a prayer book in German.

Abraham Herz Street

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When a street name was sought in 2018 for the new street in the "Nördlich Brunnenstraße" development area in Remseck-Hochberg, the Remseck municipal council unanimously decided to name it after Abraham Herz. This was the first time that the Hochberg Jewish community was commemorated by a street name. Abraham Herz was a member of the Hochberg community council from 1845 to 1870 and thus, according to the description of the Oberamt Waiblingen from 1850, the first Jew in such an office in the Kingdom of Württemberg.

Leather and hop store, banking business - Levi Waitzfelder

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Levi Waitzfelder was a grandson of the leather merchant Salomon Loew Waitzfelder, who moved from Aufhausen near Bopfingen to Mönchsdeggingen around 1766. From 1861 Levi Waitzfelder was active in Nördlingen as a banker and hop wholesaler. In 1885 Levi Waitzfelder moved his business from Nördlingen to Munich. After his father's death in 1902, his son Kommerzienrat Theodor Waitzfelder continued the successful activities in full vigor. He also made a name for himself as a patron of the arts with donations to the Neue Pinakothek and the Deutsches Museum.