Online Talk: Erfurt und sein jüdisches mittelalterliches Erbe – auf dem Weg zum Welterbe by Karin Sczech (German)

March 21 2023, 5.30 pm

In Erfurt, outstanding structural and material witnesses of the medieval Jewish community have been preserved, which have only been intensively discovered and researched in recent decades. In 2008, the city of Erfurt decided to apply for inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List: The medieval synagogue with several construction phases, the mikveh (ritual bath) from the 13th century and a Jewish residence from the same period constitute the components of the application.


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About Maria Stürzebecher

I am the curator of the Museum Old Synagogue in Erfurt and scientific coordinator for the UNESCO World Heritage application Jewish-Medieval Heritage in Erfurt. Since 2012, I am editing the series "Erfurter Schriften zur Jüdischen Geschichte"; in 2020, the 6th volume "Ritual Objects in Ritual Contexts." was published. I studied History of Arts, Archaeology, Sociology and History and wrote my PhD thesis about the medieval Erfurt Treasure, which was published in 2009 entitled „Der Schatzfund aus der Erfurter Michaelisstrasse – Mittelalterliche Goldschmiedearbeiten als Zeugnisse jüdischen Lebens in Erfurt“.