Jewish Museum Frankfurt

The Philanthropin, founded in 1804 as a "place of humanity" by the Frankfurt Jewish community, moves into its new quarters at Hebelstrasse 15-19 in 1908. The Berlin magistrate Georg Matzdoff, together with the engineer Ernst Hiller, is awarded the contract for a new school building in the neo-Renaissance style.

A hundred years ago, it was founded as a synagogue for the liberal stream of Judaism, whose adherents increasingly settled in the West End at the beginning of the 20th century.

Today, the large main room serves as an Orthodox synagogue, while at the same time all directions within the Jewish community find their home in the building. Neither the Pogrom Night nor the 2nd World War could destroy the Westend Synagogue completely, thus the reconstruction can take place already 1948 - 1950 by the architects Max Kemper, Werner Hebebrand in cooperation with Hans Leistikow.

Old Jewish Cemetery  

The first burials in the Jewish Cemetery  Battonnstraße can be dated by a few gravestones to the year 1272. This makes it one of the oldest of its kind in Europe. In Judaism, the cemetery is considered an eternal resting place, and for this reason the graves may neither be dissolved nor the gravestones removed. When the capacities there are exhausted, he must be closed in 1828 with almost 7000 graves.

The Ignatz Bubis Community Center at Savignystraße 66 is inaugurated in September 1986. The building houses part of the I. E. Lichtigfeld School, a kindergarten, a youth center, a banquet hall and senior citizens' meeting place, and a kosher restaurant.