This article examines the nexus between the Jewish ghetto in Frankfurt am Main (built in 1462) and a neighboring street, Wollgraben. Utilizing Jewish communal sources in Hebrew and Yiddish, German municipal records, and contemporary maps, it traces the development of the ghetto against the backdrop of urban expansion and population growth. Although the Jews were technically confined to the ghetto, these sources demonstrate that as the Jewish population increased, both Jewish residents and their buildings spilled over into the once-empty lot on Wollgraben. Building policies demonstrate, however, that limiting the visibility of the Jewish minority was essential to the city council. As such, they restricted the scope and zoning of buildings to obscure the Jewish presence, particularly as the majority population expanded into this once peripheral area.

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接缝中的城市历史：法兰克福犹太巷和早期现代城市

本文探讨了美因河畔法兰克福的犹太人聚居区（建于 1462 年）与邻近街道 Wollgraben 之间的联系。它利用希伯来语和意第绪语中的犹太公共资料、德国市政记录和当代地图，追踪了城市扩张和人口增长背景下贫民窟的发展。尽管从技术上讲，犹太人被限制在隔都内，但这些消息来源表明，随着犹太人口的增加，犹太居民及其建筑物都涌入了沃尔格拉本曾经空荡荡的土地。然而，建筑政策表明，限制犹太少数民族的知名度对于市议会至关重要。因此，他们限制了建筑物的范围和分区，以掩盖犹太人的存在，特别是当大多数人口扩展到这个曾经的边缘地区时。