In 1945, the Ashkenazi congregation began to worship from a stone prayer hall, located at Am Brixener Hof 2, in Regensburg.

[2] The original synagogue was erected between 1210 and 1227, in the Old Romanesque style on the site of the former Jewish hospital, in the center of the ghetto, where the present Neue Pfarre stands.

Two etchings made by Albrecht Altdorfer of the synagogue shortly before it was destroyed on February 22, 1519, provide the first portrait of an actual architectural monument in European printmaking.

The Jews themselves had demolished the interior of their venerable synagogue, on the site of which a chapel was built in honor of the Virgin.

According to a chronicle the exiles settled, under the protection of the Duke of Bavaria, on the opposite bank of the Danube, in Stadt-am-Hof, and in villages in the vicinity; from these they were expelled in the course of the same century.