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 Frankfurter Judengasse in 1868 The Frankfurter Judengasse (from German: “Jews' Lane”) was the Jewish ghetto of Frankfurt and the earliest of its kind in Germany. It existed from 1462 until 1796 and was in early modern times home to Germany's largest Jewish community. A ghetto is an area where people from a specific racial or ethnic background or united in a given culture or religion live as a group, voluntarily or involuntarily, in milder or stricter seclusion. ...
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The early modern period is a term used by historians to refer to the period in Western Europe and its first colonies, that spans the time between the Middle Ages and the Industrial Revolution that has created modern society. ...
Initially, some 15 families with about 110 members lived in Frankfurt's Judengasse when they were forcibly removed from the city and relocated to the ghetto by decree of Frederick III in 1462. In the 16th century, the number of inhabitants rose to over 3,000, living in 195 houses.[1] To the most well-known inhabitants of the ghetto belonged Mayer Amschel Rothschild and Ludwig Börne. Decree is an order that has the force of law. ...
Detail of Aeneas Piccolomini Introduces Eleonora of Portugal to Frederick III by Pinturicchio (1454-1513) Frederick III of Habsburg (Innsbruck, September 21, 1415 – August 19, 1493 in Linz) was elected as German King as the successor of Albert II in 1440. ...
Mayer Amschel Rothschild, born Mayer Amschel Bauer on February 23, 1744 in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany – died there on September 19, 1812 was the founder of the Rothschild family banking empire that would become one of the most successful business families in history. ...
Karl Ludwig Börne (6 May 1786 - 12 February 1837; also spelled Boerne) was a German political writer and satirist. ...
The ghetto was located outside the city walls east of the medieval city wall (Staufenmauer) and formed a slight curve from today's Konstablerwache to Börneplatz, near the Main river. The street was about 330 meters long, three to four meters wide, and had three town gates. The gates were locked at night as well as on Sundays and Christian holidays. At the end of the 19th century, most of the buildings in the Judengasse were torn down. The area suffered major destruction during Second World War and reconstruction left no visible signs of the ghetto in today's street map of Frankfurt. Map showing the position of the Main in Germany The Main (pronounced in German like the English word mine) is a river in Germany, 524 km long (including White Main 574 km), and one of the more significant tributaries of the Rhine river. ...
Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead...
Post-war usage of the area included a car park, a petrol station and a wholesale flower market. The decision to build an administrative complex triggered a public discussion as to what should be done with the archaeological remains uncovered during the construction work in 1977. 19 foundations were found and five of them can be seen at "Museum Judengasse" which was incorporated into the new building. [2]
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External links This article incorporates text translated from the corresponding German Wikipedia article as of November 26, 2006. November 26 is the 330th day (331st on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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