A local Jewish settlement is documented from the first half of the 17th century, while a Jewish community with a prayer house was here from the end of the 17th century until the Nazi occupation. The Jewish quarter is located on Tyršova Street between the square and the Jewish Pond, south of the square. All five houses have been reconstructed but are preserved, including the former Jewish school. The first synagogue was mentioned in 1680. In 1907, a new synagogue was built, near the old one on the edge of the former Jewish quarter of today’s Tyršova Street. Worship was held in the synagogue until the Nazi occupation, then during the war it served as a workshop.
The synagogue has been used by the Czechoslovak Hussite Church since the 1940’s.
The cemetery is located 500 meters southwest of the center, on the main road leading to České Budějovice, between the petrol station and the shore of Munický Pond. It was founded in the first half of the 18th century and extended in the 19th century. Over an area of 1,275 square meters there 190 tombstones preserved around from 1752-1941.