Orphanage Printing Office

Although it is not an original "Jüdische place", the orphanage printing house is nevertheless important for the Jüdische history of Hanau. It stands in the direct tradition of the two "oriental printing houses". The typefaces and types of the Typographia Orientalis by Bashuysen were transferred to this printing house via several changes of ownership, in which Hebrew works were still occasionally printed.

The old Hebrew types of the predecessor printing house were used for the last time in the Orphanage Printing House in 1797.

When the Hereditary Prince Wilhelm I. (the later Elector Wilhelm II) with his newly married wife on 17. May 1797 Hanau, the Jewish community presented him with a poem of homage in Hebrew with a German translation, which had been printed in the \Vaisenhausdruckerei.