Mar 7, 2023 | Chronicle, Jewish life in Harxheim, Local history
Jewish life in Harxheim: Judith Mayer Ferdinand’s widow Judith prepared her emigration to the USA from October 1938. Of the household goods and furnishings she wanted to take with her from her Frankfurt apartment, half were removed from the inventory list by the...
Mar 7, 2023 | Chronicle, Jewish life in Harxheim, Local history
Jewish life in Harxheim: Johanna Mayer Johanna Mayer was born in Harxheim on June 9, 1909. She spent her school years in Harxheim and Mainz. Harxheim elementary school, ca. 1920, grades 1910 to 1913. Herta (1913, 2nd row, 3rd from right) and Johanna (1910, 3rd row,...
Mar 7, 2023 | Chronicle, Jewish life in Harxheim, Local history
Jewish life in Harxheim: Simon Mayer Simon, born in Harxheim on April 20, 1919, was the youngest of five siblings. Like the other children in the family, he first attended the local elementary school and then a high school in Mainz. At the end of 1934 he moved with...
Mar 6, 2023 | Chronicle, Jewish life in Harxheim, Local history
Jewish life in Harxheim: Family Ferdinand and Judith Mayer In today’s Untergasse 19 lived for generations the merchant family Mayer. Last were Ferdinand (born 16.07.1880 in Harxheim) and wife Judith, née. Weil (born on 30.03.1881 in Randegg near Esslingen)...
Mar 6, 2023 | Chronicle, Jewish life in Harxheim, Local history
Jewish life in Harxheim: Family Moritz and Katharina Gutha Mayer In Untergasse 13 lived another family named Mayer: Moritz (born on 17.10.1879 in Harxheim) and wife Katharina Gutha, née Reinheimer (born on 05.05.1879 in Reinheim near Dieburg) and the two sons Julius...
Dec 8, 2022 | Chronicle, Harxheim Points of Interest, Local history, Economic center "Old Harxheim"
Historic Lotz Winery By Tanja Reßler and Siegfried Schäfer Nestled between Obergasse and Untergasse and bordered by the bowling alley, lies the stately home and park-like garden of the former winery Peter Lotz. “Liberation wine 1929”, celebrations at Lotz...
