Adler Pharmacy (Winterthur)
| Adler pharmacy | |
|---|---|
| legal form | AG |
| founding | 1839 |
| Seat | Winterthur |
| management | Florian Meier, pharmacist ETH, FPH |
| Number of employees | 48 (as of December 2018) |
| Branch | Pharmacy , Internet trade |
| Website | www.adlershop.ch |
The Adler pharmacy in Winterthur in Switzerland is the second oldest pharmacy in the city. The house "Zum Maulbeerbaum", in which the pharmacy is located, was built in 1785. The five-story corner building at Station Square is due to its historical significance city under monument protection .
House to the mulberry tree
The house "Zum Maulbeerbaum" forms the entrance to the old town of Winterthur . It was built in 1785 and was originally attached to the tower of the gate ( Untertor ). At that time the Eulach was still open in front of the house and flowed along the southern city wall, where it fell over a weir to the snake mill. Before 1785 a municipal Bauhaus "buhuse" stood on the site of today's Adler pharmacy, as can be read in a document from 1359. The Steiner brothers received the permit to build the new house; Daniel (1737–1786) and Johann Caspar (1734–1812). The house was named "Mulberry Tree" at the suggestion of Johann Caspar Steiner , who came from Bergamo and was active in the silk trade . The leaves of the mulberry tree are the food of the silkworms .
The main facade of the house "Zum Maulbeerbaum" is now part of the southern station square and used to be part of the old city wall. In the minutes of the council of 1784, the contractual conditions for the facade on Bahnhofplatz were clearly regulated: The windows on the ground floor and on the 1st floor had to be barred ("reinforced with iron"), and an exit was not allowed to be created on this side at any time. At that time the city did not allow private exits through the wall ring, and the city gates were still closed at night until 1833. In 1914 the wall breakthrough for the first time, a large door with a small balcony above was installed. The door then remained in place until 1974 when it was closed again. In 2011, the community of heirs, together with the current owner of the Adler pharmacy, decided to install a door again, also in view of the new design plan for the Winterthur station square.
History of the Adler Pharmacy
Caesar Heinrich Steiner (1812-1894) opened a pharmacy in 1839 on the ground floor of the house "zum Maulbeerbaum". He was a very successful businessman and manufacturer of medicines. At the world exhibition of 1855 he received a medal and the award "pour la qualité de ses produits chimiques" (German: "high quality chemicals"), which Napoleon III. personally signed.
In 1864 his son-in-law, Johann Wilhelm Gamper-Steiner (1802–1881) took over the house. His son Eduard (1845–1912) trained as a pharmacist, took over the pharmacy in 1874 and named it "Adler-Apotheke". In 1911, Max Gamper (1874–1962), who had also trained as a pharmacist, bought the house from his father and carried on the pharmacy tradition. Max Gamper was the founder of his own specialty brand "Domaga" (an acronym for Do ctor Ma x Ga mper) for ointments , cough syrups and painkillers , which were produced in-house.
In 1942 Ernst Bäschlin-Gamper (1906–1992) took over the pharmacy from his father-in-law. Ernst Bäschlin expanded the operation of his pharmacy with the production of eye medicines, the Dispersa eye drops and ointments. Another important preparation was Caposan, a pain medication for headaches that was sold throughout Switzerland for years.
When in 1978 no one within the owner family continued the tradition of the pharmacist profession, the pharmacy was transferred to Dr. Urs Reinhard (1943–2018) leased . He acquired the pharmacy in 1990 before selling it to the current owner Florian Meier in 2009. Even today, over 30 products from cough suppressants and hand creams to wound healing ointments are handcrafted here. The Adler pharmacy is now state-of-the-art, a robot from the Rowa company manages over 30,000 medicines and is available to the population 365 days a year.
In spring 2011, the mail order pharmacy was added to the traditional pharmacy business.
The pharmacy has been operating a blister center since 2012 . The production of tubular blisters is used to pack tablets in individual portions for an individual patient. In Switzerland, pharmacies with a license from the cantonal therapeutic product control or blister centers with Swissmedic license are authorized to manufacture.
literature
- Gamper Family “Mulberry Tree”: Contributions to the history of the Gamper Family “Mulberry Tree”. Winterthur 1940.
- Dieter Siegenthaler-Bäschlin: The houses Zum Maulbeerbaum & Zum Schwarzen Adler in Winterthur. 2010.
Web links
- Homepage of the Adler pharmacy
- Adler Pharmacy in the Winterthur Glossary.
- Homepage Blistering Adler Pharmacy
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dieter Siegenthaler-Bäschlin: The houses Zum Maulbeerbaum & Zum Schwarzen Adler in Winterthur. 2010.
Coordinates: 47 ° 29 '56.7 " N , 8 ° 43' 27.3" E ; CH1903: 696866 / 261719