Street & Locale Names

From the homepage of the day care center:

Our daycare center owes its existence to the Jewish Seligmann family. In memory of the parents buried in Baiersdorf, the Seligmann brothers in Frankfurt, London and New York have given 10.000,- Mk. for the construction of a children's day care center to the city, with the remark "to want to bear any additional costs as well". (Excerpt from the Fräkische Nachrichten of August 22, 1904).

Against the Rathausstraße 8, since 2003, there has been a „Jewish memorial sign“ which was inaugurated in the presence of the then chairman of the Central Council of Jews, Paul Spiegel.

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the November pogroms of 1938 the Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg inaugurated the "Synagogue Monument" by Margrit Kahl (1942-2009), which was designed as a walk-in square, on November 09, 1988.

Jüdenstraße is a traffic route in the old town of the Berlin district of Spandau and was in the Middle Ages residential area of the Jews of Spandau. It begins at the Altstädter Ring and crosses there the Mühlengraben, crosses the Moritzstraße as well as the Ritterstraße and meets at its northern end again the Viktoria-Ufer. The street originated in the 14th century. The word "Jüden" is a transliterated variant of the Middle High German word "Juden". This street received its name after the Jews living there at that time. The earliest known record of the name dates back to 1537.