View of the Flossenbürg ruins, 6 km. west of Markt Floss.
From Geognostische Beschreibung des Königreichs Bayern, published in Gotha, Verlag von Justus Perthes, 1868. Bayerische Statsbibliothek
Jewish Non-citizens in Floss
1811–12 (before the town fire)
Boskowitz house. Amsehl, Moses, Abraham and Lazarus Boskowitz (Poßkowitz), all four protected Jewish tradesmen, jointly owned, 2 stories, brick below, wood beamed walls above, roofed with shingles, 5 inhabitable rooms. —This house later burned with the rest. One third of the site that burned was sold to Brocka and Abraham Boskowitz as well as Wolf Braslaw, so that they could enlarge their new constructions.—
Bloch House. Abraham and Michl Bloch each own half of a house, lower floor made of brick, upper made of wood and with shingled roof; 3 living rooms; wooden shed, small vegetable garden behind the house.
Judendoferl (Davidl). Feischl Meier and Meier Hönig (Fathers; Meier and Hönig David). Small, half brick, two-story house with 2 rooms and a wooden stable.
Salmen House (Salomon). Owner: Meier Salomon. Completely newly built residential house, 4 rooms along with stable. He bought the site from his father Salomon Joseph for 200 guilders.
Goklo House. Owner: Abraham Isaak Dachauer, half; Mayer Bloch and Moses Block, a quarter each. Half brick, half from wood; 2 stories, shingle roof, cellar and stable. After the house burned down, the two Blochs built on a site they bought from the community.
Little Nathan. David Nathan, a completely newly built small house, complete with a place to stack wood, that means half of the site of the fire, up to the half that Jakob Meier owns.
Blind Moisl. Distillery, 2 stories, brick, shingled roof, 4 inhabitable rooms, small garden behind the house. Owners: Moses Weit ½, Nathan Lazarus and Moses Nathan, ¼ each.
Engländer House, similar to the previous one. Owners: Samuel and Jakob Levi, each one half.
Abraham. Abraham Nathan; completely newly constructed, 2-story residence (at the time not yet finished), with 2 rooms and a stable, then a small court behind the stable. Addition space bought in 1808 from Balthasar Nordgauer, master carpenter.
Jakob. House like the previous one. Owner: Jakob Meier. The site of the former house, which burned, went to David Grünbaum.
Feischl. House like the previous one. Owner: Feischl Ploch. The earlier house burned down. The previous owner was Hönig Hirschl.
Samuel-Liebmann. Owner: Liebmann Aaron. House like the previous one. Rights to conduct business and have an oven were purchased from David Löbl Bomeisler in 1871 for 200 guilders.
Böhm-Schmuler. Owner: Moses Samuel Ploch. House like the previous one. Site purchased from Balthasar Nordgauer in 1808. (A part of the synagogue came to stand on the site of the old house that had burned.)
Fürther. Wolf Samuel Ploch. House like the previous one. Site from Nordgauer. The synagogue was built on the site where the former house, which had burned down, stood.
Judensoichl. Jakob Hönig. Newly built residence with tile roof, 2 living rooms in the front, a butcher stand [place of business], stable and cellar, next to it a shed for stacking hay and small garden. Built in 1808 with the most gracious permission, site from Bathazar Nordgauer.
oel House. Jakob Bloch. Built anew in 1807, 2 stories, brick throughout, tile roof, living room, rooms, cellar with 3 vaults. The site was bought from Bartl Hollerer for 400, then again for another 30 and 160 guilders.
Scheier House. Isaak Scheier. Built anew in 1807, 2 stories, tile roof, 3 residential rooms, stable, cellar, shed to stack hay and vault under one roof, then also a special shed.
Marum. Joseph Marum and Punfit Marum. Half brick, half made of wood, roofed with shingles, then a shed. —Newly built on the site of the fire. A portion bought from Isaak Scheyer in 1795.
Semmerl (at Semmerl’s). Aron Hönig, Moses Salomon, Mendl Levi, and Josef and Jakob Aaron, jointly owned Jewish house, 2 stories, brick on the bottom, wooden plank walls on the top, shingled roof, 5 rooms and a stable. Abraham Steinhardt inherited a part of the ownership.
|: Georg Nikol. Nordgauer (Karl Wolfram’s successor), who had 2 building plots and land for a garden on the slope behind the Jewish houses, also gave a field to Abraham Bamberger.
Town clerk’s house; bought privately by Joh. Andreas Wirth, town clerk in Floss, 1804, for 3200 guilders. Wirth had built this house on community land (over the house door: J.A.W. 1794). In 1811: two story house, brick, shingle roof, 5 residential rooms, stable and shed for stacking hay, all under one roof. Vegetable garden behind the house. Owners: Jakob Aaron and Jakob Moses, each one half.
Castle. Owners 1811: Jonas Daniel and Mendl Isaak Schwarz, referred to as protected Jews, solidly built throughout, formerly welfare agency and district court, then clerk’s residence with wood barn, wooden shed to stack hay, stone cellar; next to it, a small house with stable under one roof; vegetable garden in a courtyard area surrounded by a wall. Bought at auction by a royal provincial headquarters commission on April 29, 1807 for more than 8000 guilders. —a burned-out site, more specifically, the place, where the Josl House (also called Joel’s House), which burned down, had stood, half belonging to Jonas Daniel, while the other half was owned by Meier Salomon. In 1843, Löw Aaron Hönigsberger sold the „Bear” now a factory with fulling shute for 4000 guilders to Jakob Schopper, the innkeeper of the Golden Lion.
River House (now Hafner Bauer House). The protected Jew Jakob Uhlmann of Floss received permission to build a simple hut on the bank of the stream that goes through Floss, for the purpose of processing potash. Because the necessary tools were repeatedly stolen from it [and] finally doors and windows were not secure from thieves, he built a living area for himself in the river house.
Protected Jews of Floss 1829
Abrah[am] Boskowitz, Jewish tradesman
Lazarus Boskowitz, Jewish tradesman and farm owner
Moses Boskowitz, Jewish tradesman
Amschl Boskowitz widow, Jewish tradeswoman
Hendl Böhm, lives from handouts
Josef Bloch, Jewish tradesman and farm owner
Wolf Levi Praslaw, Jewish tradesman
Abr[aham] Mosl Bloch, Jewish tradesman
Feischl Doppelmeier, Jewish tradesman
Abr[aham] Hamburger, Jewish tradesman
Meier Hamburger, Jewish tradesman
Meier Schwarz, Jewish tradesman
Salomon Schwarz’s widow, Jewish tradeswoman
Besl Neuburger, ......
..ow. Nath. Grünbaum, Jewish tradesman and farm owner
Elias Boskowitz, Jewish tradesman and farmer owner
Isaak Michl Bloch, Jewish tradesman
Samuel Engländer, Jewish tradesman and farmer
Aaron Engländer’s widow, .......
Abrah[am] Doppelmeier’s widow, .......
Moses Levi’s widow, .......
Josef Goldmann, school teacher
Abraham Bamberger, Jewish tradesman and farmer
Nathan Grunbaum, .......
Jakob Doppelmeier’s widow, Jewish tradeswoman
Moses Löw Doppelmeier, Jewish tradesman
Feischl Bloch, Jewish tradesman
Meier Bloch’s widow, Jewish tradeswoman
Moritz Bomeisler, Jewish tradesman and farmer
Löw Langermann, Jewish tradesman and farmer
Marum Engelmann, Jewish tradesman and farmer
Moses Sam. Bloch, Jewish tradesman and farmer
Mendl Levi Floßer, Jewish tradesman
Wolf Bloch, Jewish tradesman
Joel Langermann, distiller
Joseph Schwarz, tanner
Hosch Engelmann, Jewish tradesman and farmer
Moses Meier Bloch, Jewish tradesman
Nathan Bloch, ........
Isaak Bloch, Jewish tradesman and farmer
Veit Rosenstein, Jewish tradesman
Moses Reichenberger, Jewish tradesman and farmer
Samuel Jakob Bloch, Jewish tradesman and farmer
Jakob Bloch, Jewish tradesman
Scheier Isaak Steinhardt, Jewish tradesman and farmer
Isaak Scheier Steinhardt, Jewish tradesman
Moses Wittelshöfer, rabbiner
Henlein Goldmann, kosher butcher
Marum Jo[se]f Engelmann’s widow, Jewish tradeswoman and farm owner
Punfit Engelmann, tradesman
Joseph Aaron Hönigsberger’s widow, Jewish tradeswoman
Marum Aaron Hönigsberger, Jewish tradesman
Mendl Engländer, Jewish tradesman
Moses Wiener, Jewish tradesman
Budl Hönigsberger, .......
Jakob Moisl, Jewish tradesman
Simon Löw Grünbaum, Jewish tradesman
Moses Löw Grünbaum, Jewish tradesman
Samuel Abraham Dachauer , Jewish tradesman
Jak[ob] Ulmann, Jewish tradesman
Jonas Königshof, Jewish tradesman and farmer
Mendl Schwarz’s widow, Jewish tradeswoman and farmer