Adler Pharmacy (Nordhorn)

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Adler Pharmacy, after its restoration in September 2013

The residential and commercial building, known as the Adler Pharmacy , is the oldest surviving building on the main street in Nordhorn . It was built as a community center in 1783 and used as a pharmacy from 1844 to 2012. After several months of complete renovation and restoration, it has been used as a commercial building and shop since 2013. The building is a listed building .

description

The stately town hall and commercial building in the pedestrian zone at Hauptstrasse 46 was built around 1783 by the wealthy freight forwarder Friedrich Mähler as the largest and most expensive residential building in Nordhorn at the time.

The two-story building has red facing bricks and a sandstone portal. Inside, the ground floor was covered with oak planks and a massive, richly decorated oak staircase led to the upper floor.

When Mähler, who had achieved prosperity during the heyday of the Vecht shipping industry , went bankrupt in 1844, he sold the property for 7,700 guilders to the chemical manufacturer and former Nordhorn mayor Ernst Firnhaber . He converted the ground floor of the community center into business premises, where he opened the first pharmacy in town, called it Adler-Apotheke and ran it until his death in 1872. His son, later his grandson, then took over the business until 1897. In 1905 Eduard Zimpel from Peine bought the property from the Firnhaber family, settled with his family in Nordhorn and continued to run the pharmacy. As a result, the house and shop were rebuilt, renovated and changed several times. The property remained in family ownership until 2011, when Hans-Gerd Scholand , Zimpel's grandson, closed the Adler pharmacy as the oldest pharmacy in the city and one of the oldest in the County of Bentheim for reasons of age. He sold the building to a project development company that had already acquired the neighboring house (Hauptstrasse 48).

In 2013, the Adler pharmacy underwent a thorough renovation and restoration, largely restoring its historical original condition. After completion of the work, a shop will be operated again in the building.

  • House at Hauptstrasse 46, before the conversion to a pharmacy (1844)

  • Adler Pharmacy around 1923

  • Adler pharmacy, shortly before the end of business operations in 2012

literature

  • Gerhard Klopmeyer: The Nordhorn main street. In: Der Grafschafter, 1956. pp. 330–331, 337–339
  • Ernst Kühl: Firnhaber pharmacist, mayor of Nordhorn 1843-72 . In: Yearbook of the Heimatverein der Grafschaft Bentheim, 1970. pp. 97-105

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Coordinates: 52 ° 26 '12.3 "  N , 7 ° 4' 13.4"  E