At St.-Apern-Straße 29–31 was from 1884 to 1942 one of the centers of Jewish life and learning in Köln.

On 22.10.1898 the philosophy student and later rabbi Wilhelm Lewy founds the Jewish gymnastics club Bar Kochba Berlin with 47 other followers. It is the first Jewish sports club on German soil after the Jewish Gymnastics Club of Constantinople (1895) and the Zionist Gymnastics Club of Plovdiv (1897). Previously, Max Nordau and Max Mandelstamm, among others, had advocated a Jewish gymnastics club at the 2nd Zionist Congress in 1898. The club was named after Simon Bar Kochba, the leader of the Jewish uprising against the Romans (132-135 CE).

The origins of the pencil factory Leopold Illfelder & Söhne lie in 1856, when Daniel Berolzheimer and Leopold Illfelder already founded the pencil factory Berolzheimer & Illfelder. When Daniel Berolzheimer died in 1859, his son Heinrich Berolzheimer took over his share of the company. Together with Leopold Illfelder, a branch office (Berolzheimer, Illfelder & Co.  or B. Illfelder & Co.) was founded in New York in 1861, later "Illfelder Importing Co" or "Eagle Pencil Co.".

In the Fürth address book from 1859, the following entry can be found - First main district, Hallstraße, house number 301 b,   Besels, Moriz, merchant and manufactory goods dealer

In the Fuerth address book of 1859, the following entry is found - First main district - Alexanderstraße - house number 292a

Neuburger Emil, part-owner of the hop, wool and product shop, Gebrüder Neuburger, - Alexanderstraße 298 - Neuburger Isaak, part-owner of Gebrüder Neuburger, number 292 I,

The company A. N. Holzinger was an agency business in textile goods.

D. M. Zimmer operated the company "Galanterie- und Spielwaren en gros u. Export D. M. Zimmer".