In the BADEHAUS of Waldram (formerly Föhrenwald), history can be experienced as if in fast motion: From 1940, the National Socialists built a model settlement for armaments workers in the Wolfratshaus forest. Towards the end of the war, the concentration camp death march passed by here. Then Föhrenwald became a camp for Jewish displaced persons who had survived the Holocaust. From 1956 on, mostly Catholic displaced persons with many children were settled and the place was renamed Waldram. Traces of this unique migration history can still be found here today.

In the Ziskov district, from 1680 onwards, dead Jews were initially buried during a plague epidemic. Then from 1787 all burials of Prague Jews took place here. The cemetery was used until 1890. In 1990 a television tower was built on a part of the overgrown cemetery. Today the cemetery has been restored and is open to the public.

What is striking about these stones is that the inscription does not follow the usual procedure in Germany, i.e. the po nigba or po tema as the uppermost sign, then a largely fixed text with name, date, etc., but is largely freely designed.

In 1881 Julius Jakobsohn and Max Werthauer opened the business - the company "Jakobsohn & Werthauer". In 1890 Max Werthauer resigned and Julius Jakobsohn remained the sole owner until his death in 1912, after which the business passed to Emil Hilb. In 1925 the company was deleted.

Mikwe from the 12th century,  the bath is located under the modern Council Chamber and is located several floors below the Historic City Hall.

The mikvah has a connection to the Rhine, according to its level is the height of the water in the  mikvah. 

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In Czech Osoblaha, formerly Hotzenplotz (Yiddish Hotzplotz) is the largest Jewish cemetery in the Czech Republic after Prague. More than 100 gravestones with Hebrew and German inscriptions can be found on the hilly grounds. The oldest graves date back to the 17th century. The cemetery was used not only by the Jewish inhabitants of Hotzenplotz, but for many decades also by surrounding communities, e.g. Weidenau (now Vidnava). Hotzenplotz itself had in its heyday more than 5,000 inhabitants, more than half of whom were of the Jewish faith.

With the migration of Jews from Hochberg towards the end of the 19th century, the mikvah was no longer used. The visitation report of the district rabbi in 1898 states, "The mikvah could not be visited. It has fallen into disrepair. Mr. Church Councilor strongly recommends restoration from a religious point of view." It no longer came to this.

The Hochberg School was one of eleven Jewish schools that existed in the Kingdom of Württemberg even before the Israelite Law of 1828. With this  law the establishment of Jewish elementary schools was regulated for the first time and new schools were founded. In the Jewish school, five hours of instruction were given daily according to the subject content as in the Christian schools in the Kingdom of Württemberg at that time. In addition, there were two hours of Hebrew lessons daily, as well as Jewish religious instruction.