document Neupfarrplatz

About the museum

Neupfarrplatz in Regensburg's Old Town has been settled since antiquity. In the Roman legionary camp Castra Regina, officers' quarters stood here, and in the early Middle Ages the Jewish quarter was located on this site. It is first mentioned around the year 1000 and is considered the oldest documented mention of a Jewish settlement in Germany. After the expulsion of the Jews in 1519, a pilgrimage chapel was built on the site of the synagogue. A monumental new building was left unfinished; from 1542, its parts were converted into the first Protestant parish church of the Imperial City. The square later lost importance until it became a commercial center in the 19th century.

From 1995 to 1998, an excavation covering some 3,000 square meters, the largest urban core excavation in Regensburg to date, took place here. It uncovered medieval cellars of the Jewish quarter as well as the Gothic synagogue and its Romanesque predecessor. The finds include a hoard of 624 gold coins from the late 14th century, discovered not far from the document.

Inside the document itself, walls and remains of a brick-tile floor from a Roman officers' house on Lagerhauptstraße can be seen at a depth of about six meters. A multimedia presentation, created with support from the EU and HypoVereinsbank, reconstructs parts of the Jewish quarter. The document belongs to the Museen der Stadt Regensburg.

Highlights

• Roman wall sections and brick-tile floor of an officers' house at about six meters' depth
• Multimedia reconstruction of the medieval Jewish quarter
• Site of the Gothic synagogue and its Romanesque predecessor
• History of the square from antiquity to the 20th century
• Floor relief showing the synagogue layout on the square

Permanent exhibition

• document Neupfarrplatz – Roman building remains and a multimedia reconstruction of the medieval Jewish quarter tell 2,000 years of the square's history.

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Museen der Stadt Regensburg

Admission & discounts

Free admission on the first Sunday of the month, which applies at the Museen der Stadt Regensburg, does not apply to this document. Free admission is also available for, among others, members of the friends' association of the Museen der Stadt Regensburg and ICOM members upon presentation of ID.

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Kids & families

Children under 6 enter free; family ticket €16 (parents with children under 18).

Getting there & parking

The document is located at Neupfarrplatz in Regensburg's Old Town (UNESCO World Heritage Site); tickets and the start of the tour are at the Tourist Information in the Old Town Hall, Rathausplatz 4.

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