Camberg Official Pharmacy

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The Alte Amtsapotheke in Bad Camberg is a half-timbered building whose foundation walls date back to 1330 and which was rebuilt in 1492 as the Burgmannenhaus of the von Hattstein family . The house has housed a pharmacy since 1663. As part of the Bad Camberg complex, the house is a listed building.

History of the pharmacy

In 1663 Peter Buchleidner and in 1680 Nikolaus Buchleidner are mentioned as pharmacists in this house. The garrison pharmacist Wilhelm Halberstadt from Ehrenbreitstein at the time had been a pharmacist since 1799. With the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss the Camberg office came to Nassau-Weilburg in 1803 . Prince Friedrich Wilhelm granted Wilhelm Halberstadt a hereditary privilege exclusivum for running 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. Since the Camberg office had been dissolved in 1816 , the pharmacy in Camberg should also be closed and the Idstein office pharmacy should take over the task. However, this was contradicted by the fact that the Camberg pharmacist Wilhelm Halberstadt had received a Privilegium exclusivum from both Kurtrier and Nassau-Orange in 1803 as a hereditary real privilege for running the pharmacy. The ducal government therefore offered Halberstadt to operate the local pharmacy in the Nastätten office or in the Schwalbach office if he agreed to the closure of the Camberger pharmacy. Both pharmacies were previously operated by the pharmacist Seris Bertrand, who had a monopoly for the Niedergrafschaft Katzenelnbogen and had to give up one of them due to the medical edict . Wilhelm Halberstadt turned down this offer. After his death on May 8, 1818, the negotiations were continued and ended with a compromise: the widow was given the right to run the pharmacy for herself and her children until the children's retirement by the highest resolution of June 19, 1818. It was now a personal right. The new pharmacist was Carl August Halberstadt, the son of the deceased. The state government said that the local pharmacy is in Idstein (see Lindenapotheke Idstein ) (pharmacist was Georg Martin Herbst) and that the Wilhelm Halberstadt widow pharmacy in Camberg would be managed by a provisional agent confirmed by the government .

Carl August Halberstadt died in 1862 and the pharmacy returned to his mother. From 1873 his son Wilhelm Halberstadt was a pharmacist. On June 2, 1873 he applied to the Prussian government in Wiesbaden for recognition of his grandfather's hereditary privilege. The government refused, but issued a personal license on September 18, 1873.

In 1879 the pharmacist Lawaczeck bought the pharmacy,

Buildings and monument protection

Coat of arms stone

In 1492 the street-side building was built on the foundations of a house from the 14th century on behalf of Henrich and Endres von Riedesel . In 1659, Achatius von Hohenfeld had the garden wing built as the new owner. After the Lords of Hohenfeld died out, Major General August Freiherr von Kruse , leader of the Nassau troops against Napoleon (Waterloo), received the "Riedeselsche Estate" as a gift from the Duke of Nassau in 1822. He later sold the Alte Amts-Apotheke to the Halberstadt family, who, as mentioned, had been running the pharmacy since 1799.

The pharmacy building is in a representative corner location not far from the Amthof. As part of the Bad Camberg complex, it is a listed building. A coat of arms stone is set into the wall, showing the coats of arms of Kurtrier and Nassau-Orange. This coat of arms stone is separately under monument protection.

literature

  • August Pfeiffer: The pharmacy situation in the former Duchy of Nassau . In: Nassauer Annalen, Volume 44, pp. 73-75
  • Sources and studies on the history of pharmacy, Volume 6, 1965, p. 21

Web links

Commons : Alte Amtsapotheke (Bad Camberg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Günther Tollmann: The development of the pharmacy system in the later Duchy of Nassau, 1965, p. 74
  2. ^ State and address manual of the Duchy of Nassau, 1823, p. 114, online

Coordinates: 50 ° 17 ′ 51 ″  N , 8 ° 16 ′ 13.4 ″  E