Street & Locale Names

The Benedikt-Elsas-Weg in Remseck-Aldingen is named after the textile entrepreneur Benedikt Elsas (1816-1876), who came from Aldingen, was the first Jew to be able to train as a weaver there and started his own weaving mill in 1844 at Schlößlesstraße 2 (Aldingen Old Schoolhouse).

When a street name was sought in 2018 for the new street in the "Nördlich Brunnenstraße" development area in Remseck-Hochberg, the Remseck municipal council unanimously decided to name it after Abraham Herz. This was the first time that the Hochberg Jewish community was commemorated by a street name. Abraham Herz was a member of the Hochberg community council from 1845 to 1870 and thus, according to the description of the Oberamt Waiblingen from 1850, the first Jew in such an office in the Kingdom of Württemberg.

Krakow, the old royal city of Poland, is still considered the secret capital. It is home to a large number of undestroyed cultural sites, including Wawel, the old castle with its palace and cathedral. The old town with the Jewish residential district of Kaziemierz is also worth seeing and is a World Heritage Site.

In Kaziemierz, a district of Krakow in an arc of the Vistula, Jews have lived since the 15th century. Even today, there are still clear signs of Jewish life. I counted seven synagogues and three cemeteries.

In 1356, an agreement was concluded between the Thuringian landgraves and the Archbishop of Mainz on the admission of Jews to the city. After that, under the protection of the aforementioned rulers, several Jewish families were again able to settle in the city.  
  
In the 15th century, the "Jüdengasse" (= "Jews' Lane") in the town, which still exists today, is mentioned several times. However, Christian families also lived in the 28 houses existing here. In the "Judengasse" was a synagogue. 1436 the Jews were banished from Langensalza.   

The former street name "Judengasse" is no reference to Jewish families in Neckarrems. Rather, in the late 18th century and in the 19th century, Jewish cattle dealers from Hochberg regularly passed through here to the market in Winnenden. On this occasion they sold livestock to the farmers of Neckarrems. Horses were also traded. The post office in Koppengasse (today Remstalstraße), the Rems bridge and two inns (Ochsen and Hirsch) offered more lucrative business than the then village of Bittenfeld, via which Winnenden itself could be reached more quickly.