Street & Locale Names

The name of the alley "Nahensteig" (or also "Narrensteig") is said to go back to the Hebrew name "Nahar" (Hebrew: Am Bach). In the Middle Ages, a branch of the Isar ran through today's Old Town and flowed in the area of today's Nahensteig. This Mühlbach ran several mills and rejoined the Isar; later the stream was blocked and the mills relocated. (More detailed description in the book by Georg Spitzllberger).

(c) Spitzlberger, Georg: Die Juden im mittelalterlichen Landshut, 1988, p. 189 Ewähnung im Zusammenhang mit dem "Judenbad"

The Münchner Tor at the ¨bergang "Innere Münchener Str." / "Dreifaltigkeitsplatz" was demolished in 1874 as it was too narrow and too low for the ever-increasing traffic. As today's Dreifaltigkeitsplatz, with the synagogue converted into a church, was the medieval Jewish quarter, the colloquial name was also "Judentor"

The Benary family was a wealthy Jüdische family who lived in the 19th century. They became famous and influential through seed cultivation and gardening.

Ernst Benary married Bella Jonassohn and they had 7 children.

They owned 3 villas, the first was built in 1878, 2 more followed.

In 1843 Ernst Benary founded his art and commercial nursery. The company flourished.

However, anti-Semitic policies were no exception here either: the Benary company was Aryanized in 1938 and was given a National Socialist managing director.

The street is named after David Gans (1541 - 1613), the famous Jewish scholar born in Lippstadt.

Exemplary remembrance of Jewish children of Bielefeld who lost their lives in the Holocaust.

Exemplary remembrance of Jewish children of Bielefeld who lost their lives in the Holocaust.

"A look at the map of Südthüringen shows here a special density of places where evidence of Jüdic life has been preserved. [...] Place names künden of the Jüdischen Händlern and Schmusern, as the Krämer and Geschäftevermittler ... were called. Thus, today's highway A 71 between Meiningen-Nord and Meiningen-Süd üd over the Judentalbrücke. Through this valley traditionally moved jüdische Kleinhändler." (Eike Küstner)

Otto Schwabe (born on October 2 1894 in Hanau; died on September 22 1937 ibid) was a German Jüdian physician well known in the city of Hanau, who met his death under unexplained circumstances after being arrested by the Gestapo . Schwabe came from a Jewish family long established in Hanau, whose origin was the house first mentioned in 1689 Zum Schwaben in Hanauer Judengasse (today Nordstraße).

Friedrich Canthal (* April 1848 in Hanau; † November 1922) was entrepreneur and local politician in Hanau.

Friedrich („Fritz“) Canthal was born in Hanauer Judengasse as the son of a brandy and liquor manufacturer. In 1863, after the death of his father, he took over the company and developed it into one of the leading companies in the industry in Südwest Germany. From 1876 he was a member of the Hanau Chamber of Commerce, whose president he was between 1891 and 1918.