Prayer Room

The building temporarily housed a Jewish prayer room.

In the Middle Ages there may have been a prayer room or synagogue, of which nothing more is known. After the number of Jewish families increased in the second half of the 19th century, prayer rooms were first used in Jewish residential houses. First in Eichel's house (Hauptmarkt 36), then in Liebenstein's house (Schwabhäuser Straße 6) and from 1877 in Rudolph's house (Siebleber Straße 8).

In the Middle Ages there may have been a prayer room or synagogue, of which nothing more is known. After the number of Jewish families increased in the second half of the 19th century, prayer rooms were first used in Jewish residential houses. First in Eichel's house (Hauptmarkt 36), then in Liebenstein's house (Schwabhäuser Straße 6) and from 1877 in Rudolph's house (Siebleber Straße 8).

Hermann Gerson, who was for a time the head of the small Jewish community, set up a prayer room in his residential and commercial building. How long the prayer room was used as such is not known. The building still stands today.   

After a few years, the prayer room at Jacobsplan 19 became too small. On holidays, the service was moved to the inn "Zum Löwen" in Marienstraße.