 Similar treasures were hidden in times of acute distress for the Jewish community at Colmar, Weissenfels, Lingenfeld, Münster and Środa Śląska.The Erfurt treasure, however, is larger by an order of magnitude than any of the others.The last owner of the property in question before the pogrom of March 1349, known as the Erfurt massacre, was a Jewish moneychanger named Kalman von Wiehe, who possibly was the treasure's owner.