The Jewish community in Hořice is first mentioned in the first half of the 16th century and over the centuries the community grew larger. However, the community most flourished in the mid-19th century, when about 400 Jews lived in the town, the community had its own synagogue, school, cemetery, a rabbi and a burial society. A Baroque Synagogue from 1770s commemorates the one-time large Jewish settlement (the first wooden synagogue was established half a century before) in Tovární Lane, and today it serves as a chapel of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church. The old Jewish cemetery with valuable historical gravestones, established most probably in the second half of the 17th century, is situated in the northern part of the town. The new Jewish cemetery, established in 1897 near the new cemetery on the Gothard Hill, was removed in the 1960s and only the original funeral ceremony hall (Vilém Šťastný, 1900) was preserved. Nowadays civil funeral ceremonies are held there. The residences of Jewish factory owners (Hirsch’s, Feuerstein’s and Goldschmidt’s villas) are worth attention. However, they are currently in bad condition.