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Jews' Alley (Judengasse), Trier

Judengasse (Jews' Alley), Trier
The Judengasse in Trier. Photo Creative Commons License cybermat.






Near the Hauptmarkt in Trier, Jews' Alley (Judengasse) leads into the former medieval Jewish Quarter.

Locally produced weights with Hebrew inscriptions show that there were Jews in Trier as early as the first or second century. Starting with the eleventh century, we have records of a Jewish community in Trier, and in 1235 four Jews had four houses built on the left of the later Judengasse.

The Jews were expelled from Trier in 1418. Many Jews went east; Yiddish has preserved traces of Trier Middle High German up to today. When the Jews were called back after 1600, they settled in different parts of the city. After the Holocaust of the Nazi era, the Jewish community in Trier is quite small (the New Synagogue is located in Kaiserstrasse).

Sources and References

  1. Jews' Alley - City of Trier

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