Nr. on the small map: 9 (Miltenberg)
This narrow, four-storey building with decorative framework was built in the late 16th century.
In the cellar there is a former mikvah.
Mikvah is Hebrew for „collection of water“, however, the word is mainly used for a bath serving the purpose of ritual immersion in Judaism.
The water must fulfil certain requirements: It has to be flowing water and it must not have been collected in a vessel or by a pump. In this case the basin is filled by a well under the mountain.
In 1910 a mikvah was installed at the new synagogue in the Mainstraße, so this one has fallen into disuse ever since. In 1938 the authorities demanded the “removal” of the bath, so it was filled with rubble. Today’s owners removed more than 2500 buckets filled with soil and mud between 2002 and 2004, thereby opening the bath again. The soil was filtered for historic finds.
A sculpture of Saint Elizabeth was mounted at the outside of the first upper floor in 2024.
