Production

In 1828, Benedikt Elsas (1816-1876), a Jew from Aldingen, was the first Jew to be able to serve an apprenticeship at the small Heinrich Erhardt cotton weaving mill in Aldingen. In 1838, he earned his master's certificate as a weaver and was now able to weave cotton and linen on his own account. In 1844, he acquired the old Aldingen schoolhouse and, together with his two brothers, operated the rapidly expanding weaving mill "Elsas & Comp." there with six looms in the basement of the house.