Adler and Ratsapotheke

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Adler and Ratsapotheke

The Adler- und Ratsapotheke is a traditional pharmacy and a listed building in the city of Quedlinburg in Saxony-Anhalt .

location

It is located at the address Kornmarkt 8 north of the town's market square at the confluence of the Kornmarkt on Breite Straße and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site . It is registered as a pharmacy in the Quedlinburg monument register. The building, which is also listed, is adjacent to Kornmarkt 7 to the west.

Architecture and history

The pharmacy has been in operation since at least 1578. The structural substance is partly even older and its core goes back to a residential tower from the early Gothic period , which was located in the area facing the Breite Straße. Two massive walls from this period have been preserved. In the eastern wall there is an ogival arcade . This historical structure and in particular a larger room on the upper floor with a central girder gave rise to speculation that the building may originally have served as the town hall of an older part of the settlement. However, there is no concrete evidence for such a presumption.

In the course of the conversion to a pharmacy, a renovation in the Renaissance style was carried out , with the two broad round arches on the south side of the ground floor being created. A redesign in the style of early classicism then took place in the middle, according to another statement in the second half of the 18th century. During this phase, the risalite sides were crowned with their own gables and built in half-timbered construction .

Martin Heinrich Klaproth , who later became known as a chemist, worked at a young age in the mid-18th century for six years in the Quedlinburg Ratsapotheke.

A half-timbered side wing from 1560 extends north along the Breite Straße. Its façade has St. Andrew's crosses in the parapet fields , an ornamental shape that was rare for the construction period and which was only used more and more around 100 years later. The beam heads are cylindrical and adorned with stars. The parapet planks are profiled. The ground floor was redesigned in the Baroque style in the first half of the 18th century .

In the literature, Kornmarkt 8 is listed as an object on which the decorative shape of the fan rosette was used late .

There is an administration building in the yard of the property. It was created, unusual for Quedlinburg, in the factual architectural language of the late 1920s.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Hartmut Schauer, Quedlinburg, specialist workshop / world cultural heritage , Verlag Bauwesen Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-345-00676-6 , page 29
  2. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Saxony-Anhalt (ed.): List of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 7: Falko Grubitzsch, with the participation of Alois Bursy, Mathias Köhler, Winfried Korf, Sabine Oszmer, Peter Seyfried and Mario Titze: Quedlinburg district. Volume 1: City of Quedlinburg. Fly head, Halle 1998, ISBN 3-910147-67-4 , page 159
  3. ↑ Falko Grubitzsch in: Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 1: Ute Bednarz, Folkhard Cremer and others: Magdeburg administrative region. Revision. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , page 752
  4. ↑ Hans-Hartmut Schauer, Quedlinburg, specialist workshop / world cultural heritage , Verlag Bauwesen Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-345-00676-6 , page 59
  5. ↑ Hans-Hartmut Schauer, Quedlinburg, specialist workshop / world cultural heritage , Verlag Bauwesen Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-345-00676-6 , page 57

Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ′ 26 "  N , 11 ° 8 ′ 35.5"  E