Jüdenstraße (Berlin-Spandau)
Jüdenstraße is a traffic route in the old town of the Berlin district of Spandau and was in the Middle Ages residential area of the Jews of Spandau. It begins at the Altstädter Ring and crosses there the Mühlengraben, crosses the Moritzstraße as well as the Ritterstraße and meets at its northern end again the Viktoria-Ufer. The street originated in the 14th century. The word "Jüden" is a transliterated variant of the Middle High German word "Juden". This street received its name after the Jews living there at that time. The earliest known record of the name dates back to 1537.
Shalom Rollberg (Berlin)
Shalom Rollberg is a dialogue project in Berlin-Neukölln that facilitates encounters between Muslim children and young people and Jewish volunteers. The project is an initiative of MORUS 14, a non-profit association that has been promoting education, integration and violence prevention in the neighborhood since 2003. Shalom Rollberg offers help for students, group work and events and initiates interreligious encounters in order to break down prejudices and achieve peaceful coexistence.
Jewish Hospital (Berlin)
The Jewish Hospital Berlin-Wedding has been the third hospital of the Jewish Community Berlin. In 1756 the first hospital was founded in Berlin-Mitte, it was located in Oranienburger Straße. The second one was built in Auguststraße in 1861. Due to considerable increase of city residents and living Jews in the city, it was decided to build a new hospital in what was then Schulstraße, this hospital was opened on June 22, 1914 and survived both world wars.
Coffee house Zuntz sel. widow (Berlin)
The Spandauer Kaffehaus is a branch of the very famous Zuntz coffee houses. Founded by Rechel Zuntz and her son Leopold in Bonn in 1837 under the name A. Zuntz sel. Wwe. ("of the blessed Amschel Zuntz widow"), the traditional Zuntz roasting company existed for almost 150 years. It developed from a small grocery store into a nationally active company with locations in Berlin and Hamburg, among other places. The Zuntz coffee shops enjoyed great popularity and developed into an important branch of business, although they had originally been intended only as an advertising idea.
Jewish cemetery "Kiewer" (Berlin-Spandau)
The Judenkiewer Spandau is the oldest known burial place of the Jewish community in Berlin, it was first mentioned in a document in 1314. The name "Kiewer" is most likely related to the Hebrew and Yiddish word קבר kejwer (grave). The Spandau Jewish community developed into the most important community between Breslau and Magdeburg in the High Middle Ages. The first documentary evidence of the existence of Jews in Spandau dates back to 1307, but gravestone inscriptions make it clear that there must have been a Jewish cemetery here as early as the mid-13th century.
Jewish Community Kahal Adass Yisroel (Berlin)
The Jewish community "Kahal Adass Yisroel" has its founding celebration only in January 2014, but its history dates back to the 19th century. The members of the community see themselves as heirs of the "Adass Yisroel" community from before the Shoah. That congregation distinguished itself in being based on Rabbi Esriel Hildesheimer's ideas of conducting Jewish tradition alongside modernity as a way of life.
Israelite Synagogue Congregation (Adass Yisroel) of Berlin
The Jewish community "Adass Yisroel zu Berlin" was founded in 1869 in Berlin as a counter-movement to the reform-oriented Jewish Community of Berlin. The tradition-conscious community received official recognition from detuschen Kaiser and King of Prussia in 1885 as a religious community with equal rights to the Jewish Community of Berlin. Since 1940, the center of the community has been located at Tucholskystraße 40 in Berlin-Mitte (formerly Artilleriestraße 31). The community hall as well as synagogue and other facilities of the community are located there.
Jewish Museum Berlin
The Jewish Museum Berlin opened in 2001, and since then has been one of the outstanding institutions in the European museum landscape. The exhibitions, the publications, the educational work and the diverse program of events are aimed at a broad audience in Germany and around the world. The museum focuses on the history of Jewish life as well as on Jewish everyday culture with contemporary relevance. The museum is located in Kreuzberg, not far from Checkpoint Charlie and the former Berlin Wall.
Rykestraße Synagogue (Berlin)
The Conservative synagogue on Rykestraße is the only remaining Jewish place of worship in the eastern part of the city. It was finally inaugurated in 1904 after a ten-month construction period and served as a meeting place and place of prayer primarily for Jews who had moved to Eastern Europe. Attached to it were several Jewish school institutions. The synagogue, located in the backyard, continued to function as such until 1940, when it was misused by the National Socialists as a storage facility, among other things.
City walk Magdeburg
The university and "Otto City" of Magdeburg - named after Emperor Otto I (912-73) and Otto von Guericke (1602-86) - is today one of the three major centers in Saxony-Anhalt with a good 242,000 inhabitants and has also been the state capital since 1990. First documented in 805, the trading center on the Elbe was elevated to the status of archbishopric by Otto I in 968. It was from here that the colonization of the Slavic territories started in an easterly direction. Through the spread of the Magdeburg city law, the fair and Hanseatic city gained enormous importance.