Production

North of the former healing spring "Gesundbrunnen" with preörtlichen health resort Louisenbad (Badstraße) settled in the parzellierten Wassermühlen-Gut along the river Panke from the middle of the 19th century also the tanner and leather goods industry. Their emissions had an adverse effect on the water quality (used as a reservoir) and the smells soon earned the river the name "Stinky Panke" in Berlin vernacular, and the district, which was increasingly populated by proletarians in the form of metal barracks, was soon known as "Plumpe".

Möbelfabrik Isak Basnizki  Bad Schönborn- Langenbrücken

With the establishment of the Grand Duchy of Baden  ächanged gradually the legal status of the Jews, 1862 they finally received full citizenship. The equality finally allowed them to choose their profession, to do handicrafts and agriculture.

Jewish Bürger established several cigar factories in the community, and in Langenbrücken the furniture company Isak Basnizki was the most important economic factor.

Jewish cigar factories

Jewish cigar factories

Jewish cigar factories

Jewish cigar factories

In the address book of the city of Berlin from the year 1880, the following entry can be found: Max Japha, Factory of Schürzen and Röcken, Oranienburger Straße 75, owner Max Japha, apartment Oranienburger Stra0e 56a.

In 1887, the Jewish factory owners Siegmund Sternau (1847–1895) from Büren and Albert Süskind (b. 1847)  from Oberdollendorf  founded the cloth factory „Ritz & Vogel“ in Charlottenstraße and brought their cloth factory „Süskind & Sternau“ from Lothringer Straße in Aachen into the new company as capital.The business flourished and the company quickly developed into one of the largest cloth factories in Aachen.