Following Jewish Footsteps: RothenburgMuseum

The RothenburgMuseum is home to a collection of judaica including the town's most ancient headstones, the oldest one dating back to before 1200. There are also some other headstones that have been put up in order to give the impression of a Jewish cemetery. The outlay of this part of the museum was created with the help and input of the Heidelberg Univerity of Jewish Studies. The headstones were retrieved by some of Rothenburgs's citizens interested in and conscious of the town's history, so that they would be safe from destruction and also remembered.

The inscriptions on the headstones provide some ample information about Rothenburg's early Jewish citizens and their relations to people from other places in the town's vicinity, e. g. Würzburg. The Jewish community's official seal from the 15th century and a peel used for baking bread, both found during excavation works on the Judengasse (Jews' Lane), are the only items left in connection with the community's everyday life.

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	Following Jewish footsteps through medieval Rothenburg
Town Hall	First Synagogue	Juden- tanzhaus	Second Synagogue	Juden- gasse	Rothenburg- Museum	Jakobs- kirche	Burgtor	Commemorative Stone	Jewish Headstone	Third Synagogue

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Größere Karte anzeigen			The RothenburgMuseum is home to a collection of judaica including the town's most ancient headstones, the oldest one dating back to before 1200. There are also some other headstones that have been put up in order to give the impression of a Jewish cemetery. The outlay of this part of the museum was created with the help and input of the Heidelberg Univerity of Jewish Studies. The headstones were retrieved by some of Rothenburgs's citizens interested in and conscious of the town's history, so that they would be safe from destruction and also remembered. The inscriptions on the headstones provide some ample information about Rothenburg's early Jewish citizens and their relations to people from other places in the town's vicinity, e. g. Würzburg. The Jewish community's official seal from the 15th century and a peel used for baking bread, both found during excavation works on the Judengasse (Jews' Lane), are the only items left in connection with the community's everyday life.

Following Jewish footstepsthrough medieval Rothenburg

Following Jewish footsteps
through medieval Rothenburg