Street & Locale Names

The Adolf Baer Platz is named after a Jewish citizen of Bad Wimpfen, to whom the Jewish poet Leopold Marx dedicated the poignant „Little Dachau Passion”.

Since 2007, the Ransohoffweg  refers to the Paderborn banker, Nikolaus Ransohoff (1856-1937), and his wife Selma (1864-1938), who were both involved in a variety of voluntary work. Selma Ransohoff was active as a volunteer in the Jewish Women's Association and the Fatherland Women's Association. In 1918, she was awarded the Cross of Merit for War Relief by Kaiser Wilhelm for her services in caring for the wounded and sick soldiers in the military hospitals. Nikolaus Ransohoff was a volunteer on the board of the German Red Cross and on the board of trustees of the Jüdischne Orphanage.

A stele cast in bronze has stood on the forecourt of the Westphalian School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Husener Strasse 13, sponsored by the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, since 1990. It is the work of sculptor Werner Klenk, Oelde, who created it on behalf of the GCJZ Paderborn. The city of Paderborn provided financial support.

A stele, an approx. 1.60 m high stone, has stood in the green area on the corner of Hilligenbusch/Schulbrede since 1993. The stone bears a bronze plaque informing visitors that the cemetery of Paderborn's Jewish community was located here at the beginning of the 19th century, which donated the land to the city of Paderborn as a green space in 1930.

A path located on the university grounds was named after Dr. Albert Rose. Albert Rose was born in Paderborn in 1882. After graduating from the Theodoranium and studying law in Cologne and Berlin, Rose worked as a lawyer and notary in Paderborn. In 1942, Albert Rose was the last chairman of the synagogue and board member of the Jewish orphanage. After his arrest in the pogrom night of 1938 and imprisonment in the Buchenwald concentration camp, among other places, Albert Rose emigrated to England and from there to the USA. He died there in California in 1969.

The square „An der Alten Synagoge“ was given its name in 1990. The naming of the previously nameless square at the suggestion of the GCJZ Paderborn was a small intermediate step in the efforts and controversial discussions over the years about an appropriate form of commemoration of the annihilated Jewish community at the site of the synagogue destroyed in 1938.

A path on the grounds of the university has commemorated the last director of the Jewish orphanage, Liese Dreyer, since 2003. Rose Elise ‚Liese‘ Dreyer was born in Rietberg on July 10, 1895. In 1914, she moved from Cologne, where she probably trained as an educator, to Paderborn to work in the Jewish orphanage on Leostraßlig. In 1930, Liese Dreyer succeeded her aunt as director of the orphanage, which not only housed orphans but also poor children from Jewish families, who were to be provided with food and accommodation as well as education and schooling.

In 1941, the city of Paderborn had underground reservoirs and open ponds built as part of preventive air-raid protection measures. These included the Warburger Straße / Peter-Hille-Weg pond, which was also designed as a retention basin for rainwater. It was dug by the inmates of the so-called retraining camp „Grüner Weg“. See also "Das jüdische Umschulungs- und Einsatzlager Grüner Weg"  in the category "Bildung". 

In the immediate vicinity of the university grounds is Grünebaumstraße, named after the Grünebaum merchant family, who moved here from Geseke in the 19th century and owned the Steinberg & Grünebaum department store and the current Haus Grünebaum on Rathausplatz. See also the article „Commemorative plaque Haus Grünebaum“ at Rathausplatz 7 in 33098 Paderborn.