Mikvah for men
The moat of the medieval city walls, in the course of which the street extends, was here überwwbt and a corresponding facility was established.
Rabbi's apartment
Memorial
Against the former location of the synagogue, there has been a memorial stone since 1964, which commemorates the expelled Jewish community. It is accompanied by a plaque that gives explanations about the historical background. Behind this memorial are wall remains of the „Hexen-“ or „Diebsturm“, part of the medieval fortifications of the old town of Hanau. In 1605–1608, this tower housed the first temporary synagogue of the community.
School (Cheder)
The congregation maintained a Jewish school (Israelitische Elementar- und Religionsschule), but in 1890 it moved to the Gemeindehaus in Nürnberger Straße 3.1925 the rabbi and both teachers taught 33 children at the Jewish Community School; religious instruction at the higher public schools was given by Rabbi Dr. Gradenwitz. Since 1937, a two-class Jewish school had also been established there.Already Moritz Daniel Oppenheim learned Hebrew and Jewish prayers in the cheder.
Mikvah for women
In the basement of the Nordstra;e 25 (previously: Judengasse 31, also: House „Der schwarze Bär“) was the Mikwe fünner. The moat of the medieval city defenses, in the course of which the street extends, was here überwwbt and a corresponding facility was established.
Rabbi's apartment
Rabbis of the Jewish community in the 17th/18th centuries were:
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- until 1609 Rabbi Jacob Kohen (d. 1609),
- until about 1615 Rabbi Elia (ben Moshe) Loanz ("Baalschem"; b. 1565 in Frankfurt, d. 1636 in Worms)
- c. 1617 / 1636 Rabbi Menachem ben Elkanan
- c. 1650 Rabbi Jair Chaim Bacharach (later in Koblenz and Worms)
- 1668 to 1677 Rabbi Jakob Simon Bosnis (from Prague, previously rabbi in Mainz; founded a yeshiva in Hanau in 1670)
- around 1690 Rabbi Haggai Enoch Fränkel
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.
Oriental Printing House Heinrich Jakob van Bashuysen
In 1708, Heinrich Jakob Bashuysen, preacher of the Dutch congregation in Hanau and professor of oriental languages and church historyat the Hohe Landesschule in Hanau, established a new Oriental printing house. He used this printing house mainly to publish his own publications in the field of Oriental studies. This luminary in the field of Oriental studies initially worked closely with Jewish printers. However, he fell out with them. The dispute went all the way to the Reichshofrat in Vienna, where the files are still stored today.
Typographia Orientalis (first Jewish printing house)
In the 17th century, there was a prohibition in Frankfurt am Main according to which Jews were not allowed to own or run their own printing shops. Since there was nevertheless brisk trade in Hebrew books at Frankfurt fairs, Jewish printers either had to resort to other, Christian printing houses in Frankfurt, or move to surrounding cities where there was no prohibition of this kind. One of these "alternative cities" was Hanau.
Jewish building in Wilhelmsbad
After a mineral spring was discovered in Hanau in 1709, Wilhelm IX of Hanau had the Wilhelmsbad spa built in the 1760s and 1770s The aim was to open the spa to all subjects - including Jewish bathers . Therefore, a separate pavilion was built for them. Offered were, in addition to their own rooms and bathing facilities, their own kosher kitchen.