Scheunenviertel Jewish Heritage

You are approaching a collection of reddish sandstone blocks arranged in a small park on Rosenstraße. Known as the Block der Frauen, or Block of Women, this sculpture depicts figures in states of mourning, protest, and eventual reunion. At…

The Museum Blindenwerkstatt Otto Weidt is tucked away in the backyard of Rosenthaler Straße thirty-nine, a quiet space reached through a courtyard in the Mitte district. The site occupies the original rooms where Otto Weidt, a manufacturer…

The Missing House is identified by two towering firewalls, each twenty meters high, that frame a vacant lot at Große Hamburger Straße fifteen and sixteen. Attached to these blank, weather-worn walls are twenty-four plaques listing the…

The Old Jewish Cemetery is identifiable by the sculpture of a group of figures created by Will Lammert, which stands near the entrance. Established in sixteen seventy-two after Elector Frederick William allowed fifty Jewish families to…

The Jüdisches Gymnasium Moses Mendelssohn in Mitte is marked by a prominent, high steel fence and visible security measures surrounding the building at Große Hamburger Straße twenty-seven. This school stands as a successor to the first…

The Mahnmal Der verlassene Raum consists of a bronze table and two chairs set upon a floor of cast parquet in the center of the Koppenplatz garden. One chair sits neatly by the table, while the other is overturned, suggesting a meal…

The New Synagogue on Oranienburger Straße is recognizable by its expansive, shimmering gilded dome that rises fifty meters above the street. Designed by architect Eduard Knoblauch and completed in eighteen sixty-six, the structure was…