Spire cathedral the citys main landmark 1000 years old and unesco World Heritage site. Christianity has sent great monuments in the city but judaism has also left its mark here in the middle ages was one of the most important jewish settlements in Central Europe along with mines and warms the 3 cities were even called jerusalem on the rhine. Speier warms and minds are considered the cradle of european judaism jewish life has shaped these 3 cities for more than 900 years and i want to know what remains of it so todays show is not just the city trip but also a journey through jewish history. In our email we also jet over the ski slopes in. We take a tour of the port city of haifa in israel. Hands take a closer look at mine. The old town. In these 2 streets in you can go and play in the plot from gaza a jewish reserve venture area was created 1000 years ago because jews were only allowed to settle here the houses were built particularly narrow and high in order to offer as much space as possible. The speed of museum is also located here in the you wouldnt want the jewish courtyard. In the middle ages buyout was called in hebrew which is how the museum got its name. Warms was called. Minds. For this reason these 3 cities are called shoot communities. Stands for. For what my eyes are and for my against. The term is like a low ball it is familiar to jews all over the world. The importance of becomes clear when you go outside the museum here you can see the remains of the mediaval synagogue it dates back to 110 for. Next to it was the socalled phone sure the synagogue for the women. In general women and men set apart and synagogues well and this bench here used to be for the women they were able to follow the service by at least listening. This mix theory is particularly noteworthy a ritual bath from the 12th century. The water basin is 10 meters below the surface. Lets take a look into the past the middle ages thats where the 3 cities became pretty famous. Shams history begins and mines one of the oldest cities in germany the ancient romans lived here and its likely that jews lived among them. Later in the middle ages minds became a center of jewish learning and religious life. In the 10th century merchant and scholar moses clone amisse left his home city of lucca in italy and came to mind as. He helped to usher in a new era here this is german rue this help the jews would help to modernize minds since the jewish merchants were well connected well educated and business savvy. Little one of his family produced many famous rabbis and mines developed into a center of jewish scholarship but above all it was rabbi i guess from ben yehuda who really put minds on the map. He drew students from across europe. During his tenure gash im introduced modern laws forbidding bigamy and making it a sin to open and read other peoples mail. He also to create that a woman had to agree before her husband could divorce her. After mines vaughns became another center of jewish learning on the rhine. Advance synagogue this study will and share serve as we mine is a famous rabbi rushy as does this modern sculpture in the. In a school. Rushy studied here in the 11th century. In the city of spire bishop boudicca settled to use near the citys famous cathedral around the year 1048 he said he did it to increase the place of standing a thousandfold. Along with mines and forms spire became the 3rd important center of jewish culture on the rhine but the jews peaceful existence here was short lived time and again they were pug rooms during the nazi era as the Jewish Community was completely obliterated him. You can spice of these atrocities jewish life has returned to spying vaughns and minds. In acknowledgment of their important jewish past the 3 some cities are now seeking to be listed as a unesco World Heritage site they spend years preparing their application which was the visit in january 2020. I left and im on my way to warms you only drive 40 minutes north along the right. The symbol of the city is like inspire and also minds the huge imperial cathedral. It was built in the 12th century. Forms its not only known for its cathedral and its jewish past but also as the setting for the famous legend. Numerous buildings are an incident of the german heroic saga which deals with hate love power and murder a dragon is also there. And this statue shows the villain haagen from try. You. Have thrown the treasure into the wrong. Well well leave worms for a moment because we received another of yours video as you know you can send us your impressions of your travels if we show here on check this time the video is from luis braman and he went skiing in the austrian alps so thats our weekly be mail. Cut. Cut. Cut. Cut cut cut cut. Cut. Cut cut. Cut cut. Cut. Cut colon. Followed. Me. To tackle this special hour spots in. Her. Back in the morning at the highly guns and holy sam symmetry. Susan orban is the managing director of the show. Which looks after the preservation and communication of the jewish history of buy up warms and minds men must wear headgear in the cemetery. How old is the cemetery here cannot tell most a 1000 years old it dates from around 1030 or 1040 the same time as the Jewish Community settled here so its a really old Jewish Cemetery you can also see that from looking at the stones its a sea d of stones. You bow to your are of course particularly eye catching these national youre close to there not only right at the entrance of the cemetery but also covered with notes and with stones so that you can see this is a living memorial. The reason tells me is that a famous red light from work is buried here. Thats whats the tradition of placing stones on tombstones and if you look around you can see stones lying everywhere on individual graves all tombstones and the important thing is simply that you honor the memory of that person you dont have to know them. This whole area contains about 2500 visible gravestones from many many centuries if we briefly stop here and look at the small green island you will see the 2 oldest gravestones we know of. A 1000 years old 1000 there a 1000 years old one has an unknown young man and the other on the left is a yard called probably a town with student we dont know for sure in all the International Visitors here. They are 40 to 80000 visitors a year and very many people visit the cemetery for them this is an important place for stablish in the sense of location finding their own Family History consulting scholars it is just an incredible amount happening here for jews. On our way to the synagogue we passed many stumbling blocks. I have seen stones like this year in many other cities what is this all about. This is the largest decentralized Holocaust Memorial in existence there are tens of thousands of stones all over europe this was inspired by an artist from cologne who in the 1980 s. Ninetys asked how can you actually best memorialize someone and the best thing is actually to stop as you did and ask what is this disturbance in the ground thats Something Different and there are names on it and numbers and places and suddenly. You realize that there are stories behind these stones. They tell of the victims of the nazi regime and are embedded in the ground in front of the former homes during this time the jews from here were harassed deported and murdered as in many parts of europe. We also find stumbling blocks in the you wouldnt guess the course of the street today is the same as it was in the 12th century and in the center that she sure the warm synagogue. Now the school board is the building may not be lunch but it has an incredible history it dates back to the 11th century it was burned down several times in the walls the chris sates attacked again and again and the jews informs always said we will rebuild it we belong here and we want to stay here this is testimony to an extraordinary resilience and a desire to be respected. The building was also destroyed during the nazi era and later rebuilt in 1981 services are held here again today. We continue with our meet the local slot where locals show us around their hometowns and this time we were invited to the port city of haifa is located in israel the only country in the world where the majority of the inhabitants are jews. Hi welcome to hi fi my name is through a star and im very happy to show you my hometown one of the most powerful theaters in israel lets see if. I say hes very charming because in one hand you have a modern cd right to the border of that made it through and in see big buildings and industry in the other hand is a cozy with places where you find people actually enjoying the atmosphere like me. Welcome to the german call. Any this place was stylish in 860 night by german templars the german templars was a group of religious people they came from sort of germany and you could still find a lot of Historical Places of the german heritage here in haifa. This is one of the german houses there just and i bought spoilage i dont know what it says by i know that it became a post office. They made a hole me i think it means the kingdom of the lorries called me. This is the most important religious interest place here in haifa because the bahai gardens behind gardens are the center of the behind faith and it was recognised as a Heritage Place for the units go. Look at this is not the best view ahead for from the behind gardens you can see all the ports of the fuck you can see the ships if you look over there the accuracy in my opinion is the best view of. This is the shrine of the bob and bob was the founder of the behind faith. My next stop in my tour through haifa using what he needs and what he means is its a neighborhood very colorful where jews muslims and christians live together to prove the existence exists in israel thats visited. This is a very typical place and we have here in the book club the book club. And also notes that straight to. Our loves 1 thought i would like to thank you for a beautiful weekend come on. With this nice refreshment i want you to say goodbye it was a very nice day see you. And i had north again 40 minutes 2 minds. There are hardly any remains of the jewish past left but there is a new synagogue in architecturally exceptional building. The jewish journalist. Volunteers to guide visitors through the synagogue which was inaugurated in 2010 the board of building has an unusual shape why is that because there this whole thing as a word sculpture and the word is kept in shop. I brought the architects draft with me times for holiness its the name of an important servant you say 3 times a day and the letters that they can to show are inspired the outer silhouette. You would see this unfolded like that this was folded down like that right around the corner. And heres another special thing. The remains of the pillars of the old synagogue which stood here until 938. One of 3 inner city synagogues this one here was the liberal main synagogue which had close to 1000 members its an exciting testament to the old switch shows that mines once had a great jewish tradition. Of course. Ceramic tiles are also quite interesting they change color when exposed to lots of light today its unfortunately dollars out then all of these tiles are light green now in winter theyre more dark green at night they turn black i was very important to the architect as he wanted to use it to express the liveliness of judaism. Now we go into the synagogue. These are the keepers or camps that people always go tom when they go into the synagogue while praying in everyday life. Why do we where one. It is a mark of humility towards the law. One simply cannot go bareheaded. As a mark of reverence towards the lot that. This place of worship is impressive the gold colored walls are decorated all over with hebrew characters they reach up to the top of the tower. Even the benches form a letter. The hebrew out. In front are the torah scrolls with the 5 books of moses. You read the torah with the ritual pointer the yacht which is hebrew for hand and its very important because the ink is vegetable based so in summer if you run it by a sweaty finger over the torah scroll that would smudge the writing and its also a sign of respect to god not to point a finger directly at me and instead you use. The ritual pointer to travel along that line in saigon and time and. Of course theres more to discover here in the new synagogue so heres a brief overview of what you should see in minds. Minds is the capital of the state of rhineland. Some 220000 people live here. The best place to start your tour is minds cathedral also known as st martins cathedral its over 1000 years old but the area around it is still buzzing with life. 80 percent of the inner city was completely destroyed during world war 2 however many of the town houses built for mines his wealthy merchants were later rebuilt. Mines is one of the german cities that celebrates carnival in a big way. A colorful festival is a tradition that dates back to the 16th century theres even an entire museum devoted to it and a large paper must say heads are a fixture of mine says carnival during the rose monday parade there want to provide some comic relief. Mines his most famous son is your highness good and bad the inventor of the movable type printing press. It sparked a media revolution in the 15th century. Mind says Gutenberg Museum also owns 2 of the 49. 00 original Gutenberg Bibles still in existence. In the demonstration workshop visitors can witness firsthand how gutenberg sped up the printing process through the use of movable type printing presses. So lets pull this out. If its turned out wonderfully. To better understand the minds way of life you need to get to know its a wine culture which dates back to roman times. In the old town from the region have revived the minds tradition the wine tavern. Along with the wine tasting the bit there can also teach you some poll that made idioms. Like. Get it also be served good wine. Being back in the new synagogue. There are many jewish traces in this room cities are the Tourist Attractions or are the places that are filled with jewish life. Very important for the World Heritage application as well its a very important and decisive factor that jewish life has returned to these places and luckily jewish life is evident inch by our warm sun mines thanks to immigration from the former soviet union. Why do synagogues in germany actually have police protection. This applies to all synagogues in germany just 800000 jews in germany are registered in jewish communities dangers have increased due to the radicalization in the islamist scene and in Secular Society think about the terror attack in berlin once in paris and. Then theres also the right wing extremists say by the attack and the assassination of a christian politician in has who was murdered by a right wing radical political. Martyr toward if you want to extend our still a peace part of your everyday life. I have had a few negative experiences but i know of. Members and School Children whove had some not so nice ones. Of course the desecration of jewish cemeteries is also a reality for the Jewish Community as are the terrible threatening emails that many communities receive that. Its a reality that people are no longer so free to openly practice their judaism. Many rabbis and the Central Council are jews in germany advise people not to wear capers in public. Because of the bad experiences many jews have had. Thus that is what you hope for the future also for the. I would hope that jewish life simply becomes a given becomes normal and for the cities i wish that theyd regain the significance they once had for judaism here and around the world as well as the religious and spiritual importance. Simply that they receive recognition and people see that they can be proud of this piece of German Jewish history. Yes definitely these are unique 3 wonderful places with a jewish history that goes back hundreds of years and that is still visible today and see you next top. Model for the for. The secret to success in. The search. For the story the. Find the music ahead for the ages greatest. Hot. Titans knights symphony for the world. In 15 minutes on d w. What secrets lie behind it was. Discovered new adventures in the 360 degree. And explore fascinating World Heritage sites. W World Heritage 360 get the map now. In the army of climate change. The city. Much too soon people. Want to see years do they have their future. 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