Stadtrabbiner Dr. Paul Rieger, Stuttgart, went in his ceremonial address also on the history of the Jewish community of Gmünd in the Middle Ages and emphasized that already in 1258 the Jews of Gmünd had founded their own place of worship with school.

This bath was located at a house at the entrance of Imhofstraße. This house was demolished and the mikvah was concreted over

The house was demolished after 1995 because of its dilapidated condition. In the basement lived Berthold and Ida, in the upper floor daughter Elfriede with her "Aryan" husband Johannes Otto and their son Joachim-Peter. In the yard behind the house there were stables for the cows.

The department store becomes Apolda's largest trading company until 1937, when it is transferred to the Aryan merchant Friedrich Hustedt through Aryanization. In 1950, it was leased by the state trade organization HO.