Hofgeismar Pharmacy Museum
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Hofgeismar , District of Kassel 
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| opening | 1989 (private), transferred to Hofgeismar in 2014 |
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Magistrate of the city of Hofgeismar
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| ISIL | DE-MUS-235018 |
The Hofgeismar Pharmacy Museum is a pharmacy museum in Hofgeismar , Kassel district . It is located in the oldest building in the city after the church and shows 350 years of pharmacy history.
history
The building in which the museum is now housed was constructed from sandstone in 1239 . Initially it was intended as a town castle for defense purposes, but later used as a residential building and warehouse. The entrance area consists of around 3 meter high masonry rooms with sandstone walls and a beamed ceiling. At the behest of the Hessian Landgrave, the “Gesundberunnen Pharmacy” was opened in the building in 1768, with the aim of offering and accompanying spa treatments. The local pharmacist family opened the museum in 1989 with exhibits from the 18th century after the city's magistrate decided in 1978 to keep the building. The museum has been owned by the city of Hofgeismar since 2012.
exhibition
The museum has five levels with a total of 400 square meters of exhibition space. In the groin vaulted cellar there is a medieval alchemist's kitchen with the laboratory equipment of a pharmacist of the time. Furthermore, be Destillationsöfen , coating pan , Tinkturpressen , an ointment machine and a tablet press issued. On the upper floors there are original pharmacist's offices from the Hubertus pharmacy from 1945, the Brunnen pharmacy from 1768 and the Sandersche pharmacy from 1801, which was in operation until 1974, together with their original equipment such as pharmacist jars made of glass and porcelain and scales with weights . The 200 volume museum library is on the second floor. The books on chemistry , physics and botany have been preserved in full; the oldest tome is from 1582. In the not publicly loft certificates, prescriptions and treatment kits will be archived.
Adjacent to the house is a 250 square meter pharmacy garden with local medicinal plants .
literature
- Eckart Roloff: Visit your doctor or pharmacist. Volume 2. Southern Germany . 1st edition. S. Hirzel Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-7776-2509-6 ( dnb.de ).
- ARZ Haan AG (Ed.): Pharmacy museums; Travel guide . PACs Society for Promotion, Advertising and Communication Service mbH.