The Jewish City of Frankfurt
Description:
There has been a Jewish community in Frankfurt for 900 years. Longer than any other German city, scientists, patrons, artists, bankers and politicians work and live here. The Frankfurt Jewish ghetto lasted the longest and was the largest in Europe. For 400 years it was the only place where Jews could live. The gates of the ghetto closed at night and on Sundays.
The old Jewish cemetery was built in the 12th century. For 4 centuries Jews from Frankfurt and all surrounding cities were buried in this cemetery. The cemetery was largely damaged during the time of National Socialism, but it preserved the graves of Meer Rothschild, the founder of the Rothschild Bank, the famous rabbis Nathan Adler or Jacob the Chief, and an ancient site of the cemetery, which did not get to the war.
The tour is divided into 2 parts: pedestrian and car.
During a walking tour, we will visit the places where the first Jewish settlement was located right next to the Dome Cathedral until 1462. The next item is the Jewish ghetto. Above the foundations of the old houses is now the Judengasse Jewish Museum. We'll go home. I'll show you how bankers, rabbis, royal court Jews lived.
The next stop is the old Jewish cemetery. The cemetery is surrounded by a wall of martyrs. On this cement wall are plaques bearing the names of 12,000 Frankfurters who died in concentration camps. Among them are plaques dedicated to Anne Frank and her family. A tour of the old Jewish cemetery.
By car we will take you to places related to the history of Jews of the 19th and 20th centuries. The infamous I.G. Farben concern, which began producing gas for concentration camps, but also a 19th-century Jewish synagogue. This synagogue stood at the resurgence of liberal Judaism.
The next point is the University of Frankfurt, which was largely created with funds from Jewish patrons. Rector of the Faculty of Psychology until 1933 was a native of Frankfurt Erich Fromm.
We will see the Rothschild Park and the palace that belonged to their family, as well as the embankment of museums, which was largely created by Jewish philanthropists.