Katja Janitschek, curator of the Judengasse Museum, will demonstrate the evolution from the Frankfurt Judengasse, where Jews were forced to live from 1462 to 1796, to the beginnings of bourgeois emancipation and the constant struggle for equality in the 19th century. A short walk leads to the site of the former main synagogue, where today only a commemorative plaque can be seen. The main synagogue was solemnly inaugurated in 1860 and destroyed during the Night of Broken Glass in 1938. It was a center of the new Jewish reform movement in Frankfurt. The tour ends in the recently accessible historic cellar of the Golden Apple under a Japanese restaurant, which once belonged to a resident of the Frankfurt Judengasse. Here, the current state of research is explained, and the question is discussed of how a city should deal with such historic sites and how they can be brought back into the consciousness of the urban society. The Golden Apple is not accessible for people with disabilities.
Registration: besuch.jmf@stadt-frankfurt.de
Cost: 5 Euro per Person
