Usingen official pharmacy
The Amts-Apotheke Usingen ( Amtsapotheke Usingen until 1866 ) is a pharmacy founded in Usingen in 1680 . The building is a listed building .
history
The pharmacy was founded in 1680. In January 1681 the journeyman pharmacist Johann Philipp Viselius applied for the position of the pharmacy's agent. He was considered quarrelsome and quarreled with everyone. The physikus ordinarius , i.e. the chief physician in the Principality of Nassau-Usingen , Johann Henrich Flick, who supervised the pharmacy, criticized the condition of the pharmacy as pathetic several times. He criticized the fact that Viselius left the dispensing of medicines to his wife when he was working in the field (pharmacists were part-time farmers, was common practice at the time). Above all, however, he did not follow the medical prescriptions.
In 1702 the sovereign had the pharmacy closed and appointed the pharmacist Johann Nikolaus Heydenreich from Saxony as the new pharmacist. He married Viselius' daughter and took over the pharmacy in Neustadt.
The new pharmacist was in competition with the local shopkeepers, bathers and quackers, who also distributed medicines. This was exacerbated by the fact that his father-in-law Viselius continued to sell medicines (albeit without a permit) until his death in 1717.
In an instruction from Prince Walrad to all officials, it was regulated that action should be taken against domestic and foreign swindlers in all severity. As a result, action was taken against a large number of quacks. So the prince's office was notified on January 2, 1706 in Eschbach , the wrong-nothing Arzneyen seized of Johann Jakob Born and its accounts with spells.
Pharmacist Heydenreich died on December 31, 1735. His widow, Maria Margaretha Heydenreich, hired Georg Konrad Blum as a provisional agent.
In 1748 Heydenreich's heirs sold the pharmacy. The buyer was Johannes Reich, the official and city medic, the purchase was confirmed on September 10, 1748 by Prince Carl . Since Reich was on the one hand not a pharmacist and on the other hand, as a supervisory authority, was not allowed to run the pharmacy at the same time, the provisional Friedrich Siegfried Wustein remained in his function as a pharmacist. In 1753, after Reich's death, Wustein acquired the pharmacy from his heirs.
In 1765, the pharmacist Heinrich Wilhelm Ulrici from Wiesbaden acquired the von Wustein pharmacy and received the privilege from Prince Carl. After Ulrici died in 1788, the pharmacy came under management, as he left a weak-minded son next to the widow. The pharmacy deteriorated and was leased in 1808 for 8 years to the pharmacist Franz Aust from Bruchsal for an annual lease of 582 guilders . After Aust had acquired the pharmacy in Dillenburg , he had the Usinger pharmacy provided by a provisional agent. In 1812 the pharmacist Louis de Beauclaire bought the pharmacy.
According to Section 4, Paragraph 7 of the Medical Edict of 1818, one pharmacy should be opened at each office and all other pharmacies should be closed. The Usingen pharmacy thus became the official pharmacy for the Usingen office . From 1838 Beauclaire ran a branch pharmacy in Brandoberndorf .
Beauclaire died in 1845 and his widow sold the two pharmacies in 1847 to the pharmacist Kayser from Kirberg . He had financial problems and had to sell in 1857 to the pharmacist Rudolf Lötze from Driedorf. Kayer became a provisional in the branch pharmacy in Brandoberndorf. The last Usingen official pharmacist Rudolf Lötze died in 1887. Since 1866 Usingen belonged to Prussia. The pharmacy kept its name, but its legal status as an official pharmacy ended. The pharmacy remained in the possession of the Lötze family until at least 1918. Pharmacists were Adolf Lötze (1859–1930) and Rudolf Lötze (1898–1971) and Manfred Brehm (* 1921).
The current owner is Rudolf Brehm.
building
The local pharmacy is part of the building complex of the market square and has the address Marktplatz 19. The building is an important structural element of the market square due to its corner location on Neutorstrasse (today Bundesstrasse 275 ). The square was planned by Johann Emmerich Küntzel after the Usingen fire in 1692 , but who left Usingen in 1698. The buildings themselves were implemented by Benedikt Burtscher . The house Marktplatz 19 is part of a semi-detached house with the house numbers 17/19. The two houses have a uniform facade. The facades of both houses are symmetrical about the central axis. The format of the windows and the dormitories are additions to the 19th century.
Since 1957 the house has been used as an official pharmacy.
literature
- EG Steinmetz: History of the local pharmacy in Usingen 1857 - 1957 . Revised by Karl-Heinz Schneider
- Hans-Werner Kothe: The health system in the office Usingen in the 17th and 19th centuries . In: Nassauische Annalen : Jahrbuch des Verein für Nassauische Altertumskunde und Geschichtsforschung, Volume 117, pp. 215 ff.
- August Pfeiffer: The pharmacy situation in the former Duchy of Nassau . In: Nassauische Annalen, Volume 44, P. 69 ff. (The Brandoberndorf pharmacy is described on pages 71–72 and the one in Usingen on pages 100–101)
- Eva Rowedder: Hochtaunuskreis . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hessen ). Konrad Theiss Verlag, Darmstadt 2013, ISBN 978-3-8062-2905-9 , pp. 600 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ EGSteinmetz: History of Office pharmacy to Usingen 1680-1980, "p 27th
- ^ A. Pfeiffer attaches importance to the spelling Vieselius
Coordinates: 50 ° 20 ′ 7.9 ″ N , 8 ° 31 ′ 59.4 ″ E