Mathias Mack
Mathias Mack (born November 13, 1801 in Kelheim , † November 19, 1882 in Reichenhall ) was a German pharmacist , lecturer in chemistry at the trade school of Passau and mayor of Reichenhall. Mack is also the inventor of the distillation of mountain pine oil, which forms the business basis of the mountain pine oil distillery Josef Mack , which he founded.
Life
On March 1, 1844, Mathias Mack exchanged his pharmacy in Kelheim with Georg Alt's health pharmacy in Reichenhall , which at that time did not have the addition of bath (only since 1890).
Shortly thereafter, Mack moved the pharmacy's location to Querknergasse 248, today's Ludwigstrasse. The building stood at the southern corner of the current intersection of Ludwigstrasse and Max-Zugschwerdt-Strasse. Mack was elected mayor of Reichenhall as early as May 1844, and he held this office until 1856.
Two years after Mack came to Reichenhall, Ernst Rinck opened the first Reichenhall brine and whey spa in the Hotel Axelmannstein in 1846 . In neighboring Kirchberg , a spa and bathing establishment had already been established around the local Kirchberg spring in 1713, but this was only of local importance, as the baths did not seem suitable for higher levels due to its equipment and facilities . Kirchberg therefore initially had the reputation of being a servant's bath , but grew into an internationally known health resort in the neighborhood of Reichenhall by the turn of the century. Mack recognized the potential offered by the brine and whey spa and so, in his role as pharmacist, businessman and mayor, he was able to establish a spa and bathing establishment in Reichenhall together with the hotelier Rinck. At that time, Mack examined the noble spring in the Alte Saline , devoted himself to the composition of the moor mud from the Ainringer Moos and the goat whey from the Padinger Alm and Kugelbachalm , which were used together with brine as a cure.
Mack also gained notoriety through an intensely dark green and very bitter-tasting herbal juice, which was freshly prepared and served daily as a cure remedy in Mack's pharmacy. At the request of his customers, Mack shipped his remedies and herbal juice all over the world.
In 1854 Mack donated his extensive collection of minerals and fossils, which formed the basis for the first Reichenhaller Museum .
Mathias Mack was also the first to offer guided hikes in the vicinity of the city and in particular on the Reiter Alpe and the Untersberg . He brought the guests closer to botany, geology and fauna and for the guests who stayed at home he always brought blooming alpine flowers with him, which they could then admire in his pharmacy. It was during one of these mountain hikes that Mack had the idea of using mountain pine oil as a cure and remedy; In 1856 he succeeded in obtaining it for the first time by distillation . However, it was not until 1861 that the first products made from mountain pine oil were used as bath additives in Bad Kirchberg. From 1857, goat's whey was also served in a pavilion built by Mack in the park of the Hotel Achselmannstein.
It was probably thanks to Mack that King Maximilian II spent several weeks in Reichenhall for a cure in the summer of the revolutionary year of 1848. In his role as mayor, Mack visited the king in April of the same year to assure the Wittelsbach house of the unconditional loyalty of the city of Reichenhall. When saying goodbye to Mack, the king should say “Greet me, your dear fellow citizens! Maybe we'll see each other this summer! ”. The court of Munich was followed by aristocrats, crowned heads of northern Germany and the eastern monarchies. During this time, Mack's pharmacy was not just a drug supplier, but an important meeting place where the spa society met, bought spa products and had long conversations.
Ernst and Joseph Mack, Mathias Mack's sons, later took over management of the company. Ernst soon went into business for himself with the Dianabad , which was directly attached to the pharmacy in Querknergasse , and set up there with the spa doctors Dr. Friedrich Kammerer and Georg von Liebig as well as with the Viennese climatologist Dr. Rudolph Ritter von Vivenot installed the world-famous pneumatic chambers . On June 1, 1863, the first inhalations with mountain pine vapors were offered in the inhalation hall of the Diana bath. Joseph Mack remained loyal to the pharmacy and geared the company more towards the production of mountain pine products. In 1872 the pharmacy moved to a new location in the former Bauernbräu , where it is still located today. The Josef Mack GmbH & Co.KG produced to date mountain pine oil products.
Mathias Mack died in Reichenhall in 1882 at the age of 81.
Others
The Mackstraße north of the spa garden in the Kurviertel ensemble is named after Mathias Mack .
literature
- Johannes Lang : History of Bad Reichenhall. Ph.CW Schmidt, Neustadt / Aisch 2009, ISBN 978-3-87707-759-7 .
- Johannes Lang: The pharmacist from Reichenhall in the home papers of August 13, 2011, supplement of the Reichenhaller Tagblatt
- Johannes Lang: wellness trends “made in” Bad Reichenhall in the Heimatblätter from July 21, 2007, supplement of the Reichenhaller Tagblatt
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Johannes Lang: The pharmacist of Reichenhall , Heimatblätter from August 13, 2011, supplement to the Reichenhaller Tagblatt
- ↑ Johannes Lang: History of Bad Reichenhall - Oleum Pini Pumilionis - The discovery of mountain pine oil , p. 600
- ↑ Johannes Lang: History of Bad Reichenhall : “His real achievement lies in the fact that he first distilled mountain pine, which usually only occurs in the mountains at over 1200 meters above sea level, in order to extract mountain pine oil from it, which he succeeded in 1856 in Reichenhall . "P. 601
- ↑ a b c d e Johannes Lang: wellness trends “made in” Bad Reichenhall , Heimatblätter from July 21, 2007, supplement to the Reichenhaller Tagblatt
- ^ Johannes Lang: History of Bad Reichenhall , p. 823
- ↑ Johannes Lang : Street names as mirror of the time , Heimatblätter from October 28, 2006, supplement of the Reichenhaller Tagblatt
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mack, Mathias |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pharmacist, discoverer of mountain pine oil |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 13, 1801 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kelheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 19, 1882 |
| Place of death | Reichenhall |