The spacious lot for their graveyard "der gute Ort" (the good place- which is the Jiddish word for graveyard), located near the former St. Peter’s Gate (Peterstor, north of the central station), was bought by the Jewish community in 1210. For centuries, Jewish travellers from all over Western and Eastern Europe came to visit the graves of famous and revered Jewish scholars of Regensburg's well-known yeshiva (Talmud Torah School.).

In the year 1519 "der gute Ort" was destroyed and only very few of these stones have been preserved until today – about 130 gravestones and stone fragments, plus a few inscriptions copied by early historians and scholars.  

Most of these gravestones were desecrated and alienated by misusing them as building material, especially, when erecting today's "Neupfarrkirche" (New Parish Church). Some of the stones ended up in nearby towns like Kelheim, Straubing, Cham and other places. Just like in Regensburg, they were often displayed in house walls facing the street, as a kind of trophy to triumphantly remind people of the unmissable "expulsion" of the Jewish population.

One example of this display can be seen right next to the Old City Hall, at the end of the covered passageway, and to the right of the main staircase which is leading up to its lavishly sculpted portal. On the building on the right you will see an oriel – and on the bottom stone slab you can easily detect the gravestone fragment with Hebrew inscription. The closing phrase inscribed says: "May her soul be bound up in the bond of eternal life, in the Garden of Eden! Amen." - which clearly shows that this was the gravestone of a woman whose name and year of death are not visible any longer, as they are hidden under the protruding stone enforcement.