1700 years of Jewish life in Germany
Bamberg looks back upon 1.000 years of a mutual Jewish-Christian history and cohabitation in town. The first Jewish settlements actually go back to the founding years of Bamberg in the year 1007 and there was a large and important Jewish community as early as 1200. That makes Bamberg one of the oldest Jewish communities in Germany.
Several exhibitions and guided tours cover the history of the Jewish citizens and Jewish life in Bamberg and in Bamberg County, especially in the anniversary year celebrating 1.700 years of Jewish history in Germany in 2021.
Levi-Strauss-Museum
The Geburtshaus Levi Strauss Museum Jeans & Kult informs you about Levi Strauss, his life, and his famous product, the Levi's Jeans. The Levi Strauss Museum Jeans & Kult is located in the small half timbered house in Buttenheim where Levi Strauss was born. Modern and interactive presentations ...
Museum of History
Right next to the famous Bamberg Cathedral, the Historical Museum in the Old Court shows the precious collections of the world heritage city. A wide variety of art and historical testimonies from all eras are on display, from early history to the immediate present. But not only the exhibits tell ...
Three-piece arts installation / Cor-ten steel / 2020
This contemporary art installation of the artist Bernd Wagenhäuser is integrated into the Project “Kunstwerk10” (artwork 10) of the association “Kunstwerk10”. It shows memories of Jewish life in Bamberg and offers a chance to try and deal with the past. At the same time, it demonstrates ...
Former synagogue Reckendorf
The former synagogue now functions as a "House of Culture". In the women's gallery, the exhibition "Culture and Cult" was set up with reference to the former Jewish community. On display are exhibits that came from the local Genizah from the attic of the synagogue. These objects, collected over ...
Memorial for Resistance and Civil Courage
Situated centrally in town between the E.T.A.-Hoffmann Square and the Gardens of Harmony This memorial commemorates three outstanding personalities of the German resistance movement and local personalities involved in resistance to the Nazi Regime: Willy Aron, Hans Wölfel and Claus Schenk Graf ...
Medieval Mikvah
A medieval Jewish mikvah from the 15th century is on display on the grounds of a new city quarter encompassing remnants of the former city walls and buildings from the 13th and 15th century. You can see seven steps leading down to the ritual bath, in the ground floor of a Baroque house, that ...
Schloss Sassanfahrt Palace
Founded by Julius von Soden in the late 18th century, Sassanfahrt Palace was meant to be his retreat for his literary ambitions. He settled down and built not only his palace, but also many small houses for his subjects, called Tropfhäuser. They were called drip houses, because the ground on ...
Stolpersteine - Stumbling stones
An art project, that commemorates the victims of National Socialism, keeping alive the memory of all Jews, Roma and Sinti, homosexuals, dissidents, Jehova’s witnesses, and victims of Euthanasia, who were deported and exterminated during the Nazi reign The artist Gunter Demnig remembers the ...
Jüdisches Leben in Bamberg
Bereits seit der Bistumsgründung 1007 sind jüdische Einwohner in Bamberg nachweisbar. Schon um 1200 gab es eine bedeutende jüdische Gemeinde, die nach dem Auf und Ab in den folgenden Jahrhunderten vor allem im ausgehenden 19. Jahrhundert großen Anteil an der Entwicklung Bambergs hatte. Die ...