Adler Pharmacy (Leipzig)
The Adler pharmacy at Hainstrasse 9 in Leipzig has been a pharmacy that has been operating in the same location for over 300 years.
history
From the first half of the 15th century to the first half of the 16th century, three pharmacies were established in Leipzig, the Löwen-Apotheke , the König Salomon-Apotheke and the Mohren-Apotheke (later Engel-Apotheke). Then there was a long struggle for the approval of another, with disputes between the Sächsischer Hof and the city council over the right to approve a pharmacy. But no new pharmacy was added for the entire 17th century.
Finally in 1709 the pharmacist Nicolaus Jerre was granted the privilege of running the “White Eagle Pharmacy” after long efforts by August the Strong - Adler, because the house was probably already called that before, and White Eagle, because it alluded to the Polish kingship of August could be. It can be assumed that a pharmacy-like operation had already taken place in the house in Hainstrasse since 1705. 1735 was added the honor of the title " court pharmacy ". This designation remained until 1920.
The establishment of further pharmacies was also slow until the middle of the 19th century. In a Leipzig city guide from 1860, apart from the four above, only the Marienapotheke and the Homeopathic Dispensary Institute are mentioned.
Seven families owned the Adler pharmacy for over 300 years. In the middle of the 19th century it was Ludwig August Neubert who moved to Zitzschewig in the late 1860s to the better Lößnitz climate and built up the vine, forest and fruit tree school there. Richard Lux was the owner at the end of the 19th century. In anticipation of the 200th anniversary of the pharmacy's founding, he had the dilapidated building demolished and a new one built in Art Nouveau style in 1908/09 , which still exists today. The art nouveau interior of the pharmacy is still in operation with a stylish extension from 1976 and, like the whole building, is a listed building. The clock set in a white wooden eagle figure, which is said to date from 1850, was also integrated into the furnishings from 1909.
The current owner of the pharmacy, Antje Bethmann, is the great-granddaughter of the builder of the pharmacy in 1909. The pharmacy was owned by the family only with the interruption due to the nationalization in the GDR .
The building of the pharmacy 2011
The eagle as a house symbol
Pharmacy symbols on the house
The establishment of the pharmacy
The clock from 1850 in a wooden case
Theodor Fontane
The pharmacy gained special importance - at that time still unconsciously - in the years 1841/42. Theodor Fontane , who was 21 at the time, worked here as a pharmacist's assistant from April 1841 to February 1842, thereby continuing his apprenticeship as a pharmacist. He lived with the Neubert family of pharmacists, so to speak, and had a small room with three colleagues in the back of the pharmacy with an alcove in which there were four beds, two of which could only be reached by climbing over the others. Nevertheless, he must have felt comfortable in Leipzig, because in his book From Twenty to Thirty , in which he describes his stay in Leipzig, among other things, he headed the Leipzig chapter with “I praise my Leipzig”.
Fontane went on long hikes in the Leipzig area and of course on the fields of the Battle of Nations . The verses describe such a hike
On Leipzig's battlefields
I wandered today,
The falling leaves of the trees
danced before me.
Autumn must
mane and waft the leaves from the trees ,
If we
want to see the new spring in blossoms.
An autumn has taken a
lot of the German foliage here , -
When will spring come,
For which it happily fell?
He also managed to publish a poem in the Leipziger Tageblatt , which gave him access to Leipzig's literary circles. Particularly important to him was the Herwegh Club, whose intellectual focus was the poet and lyric poet Georg Herwegh and where he also met his early sponsor, the poet and translator Wilhelm Wolfsohn .
In and in front of the pharmacy, memorial plaques remind of Fontane's stay.
literature
- Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z. PRO LEIPZIG, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , p. 7.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gustav Wustmann: The three oldest pharmacies and the herbatio annua In: From Leipzig's Past Third Row, Leipzig 1909, pp. 194–221
- ^ Carl Weidinger: Leipzig. A guide through the city. Leipzig 1860, reprint VEB Tourist Verlag Berlin / Leipzig, 1989, ISBN 3-350-00310-9 , p. 248
- ^ Message from the owner
- ^ Theodor Fontane: From twenty to thirty. Autobiographical. First edition: F. Fontane & Co., Berlin 1898, pp. 71–125 (full text at zeno.org or gutenberg.de )
- ^ T. Fontane: From twenty to thirty. P. 77
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 30.4 " N , 12 ° 22 ′ 25.4" E