School of General Education

In 1725 the house was purchased by a Jewish couple. The man was head of the Jewish community. Thus for the 1st time in Linz a Jewish couple, without opposition of the Christian majority, became owners of a property. In 1841 the house became the property of the Jewish community, which bought it. From then on it was used as a community center. The Jewish community center developed here. The prayer room was located on the upper floor, and the children were also taught there. In 1844, the teacher Moses Heilbronn was hired. The Jüd.

The Hochberg School was one of eleven Jewish schools that existed in the Kingdom of Württemberg even before the Israelite Law of 1828. With this  law the establishment of Jewish elementary schools was regulated for the first time and new schools were founded. In the Jewish school, five hours of instruction were given daily according to the subject content as in the Christian schools in the Kingdom of Württemberg at that time. In addition, there were two hours of Hebrew lessons daily, as well as Jewish religious instruction.

From Kurwickstrasse 5, the Jewish School moved to Staulinie 17 on Dec. 19, 1939, which was its last location before its dissolution in April 1940.

On 28.8.1939, the Jewish School moved with the remaining twelve pupils* to a tiny room at Kurwickstraße 5. This building also housed the Jewish Community Center and a room that was to function as an improvised synagogue. On Dec. 19, 1939, the school moved to Staulinie 17, the last location before its dissolution in April 1940.

The former Jewish school carried out several changes of location during its existence: After the locations in Peterstraße 6 and in Nordstraße 2 Alteneschstraße 15 (former Catholic school) followed as the seat of the Jewish school in Oldenburg. In July 1939, the decree was announced that all public Jewish schools were to be dissolved. Nevertheless, the Jews had to provide for the education of their children, but from now on in the form of private schools. The state was no longer willing to pay for the education of Jewish children.

In 1935, the state rabbi Leo Trepp decided for various reasons that a Jewish school had to be established for all Jews*Jewesses from Oldenburg and the surrounding area.

It finally opened in October 1937 with 50 pupils* and two teachers, Moses Katzenberg and Alexander Freund, in the Jewish community center, right next to the synagogue at Peterstraße 6.