Jewish Entrepreneurship in Halberstadt

With the founding of the German Empire in 187, Jews became citizens with equal rights. The Jews in Halberstadt experienced the following period up until World War I as a “Golden Age”. In the streets Schmiedestrasse and am Hohen Weg, business owners such as Reichenbach, Ebstein, Speier and Willy Cohn expanded their premises. The facades were elaborately fashioned in the Art Nouveau style or later in the New Objectivity style.The tour will give an overview of Jewish companies at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century.