Neupfarrplatz was built at the beginning of the 16th century on the area of the former Jewish quarter. In 1519, the Jews were exterminated and the synagogue was demolished. In the 1990s, remains of their foundations were found during construction. The Israeli artist Dani Karavan created the current memorial site, which sketches the ground plan of the former synagogue in a sculptural manner.
The spacious square with the outstanding Evangelical Neupfarrkirche was a densely built-up city quarter in the Middle Ages. Until 1519, the city's Jewish Quarter was located here. Repeated attempts to expel the Jewish population failed at that time due to the veto of Emperor Maximilian I. The protection money paid by Jewish citizens was an important source of income for the imperial court. When Maximilian died in 1519, the city council took advantage of the situation to promote the expulsion and demolition of the district. In order to avoid possible sanctions from a new emperor and to create a fait accompli, the construction of a Catholic pilgrimage church began on the site of the former synagogue. With the spread of the Reformation, the Catholic indulgences and pilgrimage system as a basis for financing collapsed and construction was stopped. When the city officially joined the Reformation in 1542, the construction was provisionally completed and inaugurated under the name Neupfarrkirche as the first and central evangelical church in Regensburg. Its current appearance was only completed in the 19th century. The tragic history of the former Jewish quarter and its synagogue is kept visible and honored by the Evangelical Lutheran community today. The traffic calming of the square and archaeological investigations in the 1990s brought new sights to the square: the underground showrooms of the information center document Neupfarrplatz show walls of the Roman legionary camp, cellars of the medieval Jewish Quarter, foundations of the Neupfarrkirche and remains of the protective bunker built in 1940. Since 2005, the floor plan of the former synagogue has also been visible again thanks to a floor relief. One of the outstanding historic buildings on the square is the baroque Löschkohl Palace from 1733. served as an embassy of the Electorate of Saxony to the Perpetual Reichstag.