The Jüdenstraße ( German : Street of the Jews ), is a street in central Berlin , the capital of Germany . It is in the borough of Mitte and runs between Rathausstraße and Stralauer Straße, next to the Rotes Rathaus , Berlin's town hall. It is one of the oldest streets in Berlin, dating from the late 13th century.
5-521: Its name preserves the old East Central German expression for Jews, which was J ü den , instead of New High German J u den . The Yiddish term for Jews «יידן» (transliterated: Yidn) is based on the same German dialect form, with the German umlaut ü being represented by a «י» (here pronounced [ ɪ ] ). As the name of the street suggests, it once ran through the Jewish district of medieval Berlin, which
10-740: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . East Central German East Central German or East Middle German ( German : Ostmitteldeutsch ) is the eastern Central German language and is part of High German . Present-day Standard German as a High German variant, has actually developed from a compromise of East Central (especially Upper Saxon that was promoted by Johann Christoph Gottsched ) and East Franconian German . East Central German dialects are mainly spoken in Central Germany and parts of Brandenburg , and were formerly also spoken in Silesia and Bohemia . East Central German
15-432: Is spoken in large parts of what is today known as the cultural area of Central Germany ( Mitteldeutschland ). It comprises according to Glottolog : The dialect area of Nordobersächsisch-Südmärkisch lies north of Upper-Saxon and north-western of Silesian, in the south it includes parts of Lusatia and in the north, depending on definition, it can include the region around Berlin. It consists of multiple sub-parts, where
20-459: The Jews from Brandenburg in 1510. Horst Wessel lived there in his youth. 52°31′01″N 13°24′40″E / 52.517°N 13.411°E / 52.517; 13.411 This Berlin location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to Jewish history is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This German history article
25-490: Was no ghetto -like obligatory residential area for Jews. An alley of Jüdenstraße named Großer Jüdenhof was the site of the synagogue, school and miqveh . They were founded on an estate of the Margrave of Brandenburg within his immunity district ( landesherrliche Freiheit ) not under Berlin's city council jurisdiction. Many Jews preferred to live close to these congregational institutions, until Elector Joachim I Nestor expelled
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