On the museum’s first floor, the David Sintzheim room displays Jewish ritual objects, including a Torah. On the lower level, a 48-step spiral staircase dating from the 1500s leads to a mikvah whose ...
Named after one of Emile Waldteufel’s best known compositions, the Barcarolle residence was built in 1991 on the site of the former home of Jean-Georges Freysz, accountant of the Boecklin family. Wi ...
This modest traditional Alsatian house was home to a famous musical family. Moyse Lévy, who later adopted the surname Waldteufel, arrived in Bischheim in the late 1780s and married Elle Lazare. They ...
The Jewish community of Bischheim bought the land for this cemetery in 1797, and the first funeral stone dates from 1798. Expanded in 1848, the cemetery offers a diverse array of interesting monuments ...
This remarkably restored building, which dates to at least the early 18th century, was purchased in the early 20th century by a horse trader named Gabriel Blum. It was the former residence of the rabb ...
At times also named Riethgasse or Steingasse, the present-day Rue de l’Ecole became the center of Jewish life during the late 18th century. During this period, most of the houses on the street belon ...
In 1879, Abraham Lazare opened a small company called G’Schirrfrommel that made glass and dishware on the Rue de l’Ecole, now the Rue de Robertsau. In the 1930s, his son Paul added a glass decorat ...
For most of its history Bischheim was a German-speaking town, and it became part of France for the first time in 1681. Although the first recorded mention of Jewish inhabitants in Bischheim dates from ...