We are standing under the imposing Petershof. The directly adjacent house was inhabited by the court Jew Berend Lehmann. Lehmann, who was also called Issachar ben Jehuda haLevi and came from Essen, worked primarily for Elector Augustus the Strong of Saxony. He lived in the left part of the house. In 1706, he submitted a building project and requested to build over the small river Kulk.Walk now in the direction of Judenstraße, you will see a portal. For a long time it was assumed that Lehmann lived here. To the right of the portal is a large yellow building with red roof tiles and a glass dome. The building is located in the Abtshof and was until 1927 the office of the metal trader Aron Hirsch & Co.One of the employees of the metal company was Hermann Schwab.Schwab writes.The left side of Petershof brings me to Bakenstraße and for a short while to the narrow Judenstraße, which still bears the character of the former ghetto. A patrician house in the old alley catches the eye of the antiquarian; its low walls have seen a good bit of the history of the Jewish community in Halberstadt, even if the first beginnings of such are much older. In 1261, under the regency of Bishop Volrad von Kranichfeld, the council and the townspeople gave Halberstadt's Jews their first letter of protection; the following centuries brought them changing fates, depending on the bishops' hatred or benevolence. Heinrich Julius, who during his reign turned from an enemy to a friend of the Jews, allowed them to build a synagogue at the beginning of the seventeenth century, but it soon fell victim to the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War. It was not until the reign of the Electors of Brandenburg that the Jews became permanent residents of Halberstadt and a community to which a number of important scholars gave prestige and fame, even to the outside world. The most outstanding personality in the history of the Jewish community is the famous philanthropist Berend Lehmann 1661-1730, the resident of Augustus the Strong of Saxony. He is the builder of the so-called Klaus built in 1703 - Rosenwinkel 18 - as well as the 1712 completed community synagogue (Bakenstraße 56), which is now my visit. - The Judenstraße was not a ghetto. However, this term was more commonly used at the time.