The next conference of the Jewish Franconian Network will take place on Sunday, November 12th, 2023, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., in The Jewish Museum Franconia in Fürth (Königstraße 89)The Jewish Franconia Network
Binder, Schnaittach, 19th cent. © Jüdisches Museum Franken
For hundreds of years since the Middle Ages, Franconia has been home to Jewish families in well over 300 towns. These communities had their own synagogues, prayer rooms, Talmud study centers and cemeteries. To this day, the rich tradition of Franconian Jewish culture is reflected in a network of Jewish museums and synagogue memorial sites, all of which are presented in this brochure. “The Jewish Franconia Network“ is a project of the Jewish Museum Franconia and is supported by all Franconian districts. With this project, the Jewish Museum Franconia links the museums and synagogue memorials in Franconia and gives them a unified public presence, thus doing justice to the historical development of Franconian Jewish culture and highlighting the rich tradition and special significance of Franconian Jewry in southern Germany. Most of the institutions presented here are architectural monuments that, in their musealized form, may also be understood as witnesses to the Shoah, to the destruction and extermination of European Jewry. They are powerful reminders of the brutal end of Jewish life in Franconia, of the National Socialist expulsion, expropriation, persecution and murder of Jews. Today, there are seven new Jewish communities in Franconia, founded after 1945 in Nuremberg, Fürth, Erlangen, Würzburg, Bamberg, Bayreuth and Hof.
Besucherinfo
The Jewish Museum Franconia in Fürth
Königstraße 89, Fürth
Tue -Sun 10 am to 5 pm
Closed on Mondays (except for Easter and Whitsun Monday)
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The Jewish Museum in Schnaittach
Museumsgasse 12-16, Schnaittach
Sat and Sun 12 am to 5 pm
Closed on Mondays (except for Easter and Whitsun Monday)
Tours by appointment can be made for any day
The Jewish Museum Franconia in Schwabach
Sun, 12 am to 5pm
Synagogengasse 10a, Schwabach
Tour every first Sunday of the month at 2 pm
Tours by appointment can be made for any day
All Museums – Closing days: 1.1., Yom Kippur, 12.24./12.25/12.31.
Accessibility
The exhibition rooms of the Jewish Museum Franconia in Fürth are partially barrier-free. It is possible to reach the various exhibition areas by elevator. Between the individual rooms there are however footsills with different heights and footsills at different heights between the individual rooms. The sukkah and the mikvah are accessible only by stairs. The sukkah and the mikveh can only be reached via stairs.
The annex of The Jewish Museum Franconia in Fürth is barrier free.
The exhibition rooms of the Jewish Museum Franconia in Schnaittach are not barrier-free. The synagogue room and part of the permanent exhibition can only be reached via stairs.
The exhibition rooms of the Jewish Museum Franconia in Schwabach are not barrier-free. They can only be reached by stairs.