Elephant Pharmacy (Düsseldorf)

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Elefanten-Apotheke at Bolkerstraße 56 (formerly Communicationsstraße 8) in Düsseldorf (the Kaiser Wilhelm monument is cut off on the right)
House Bolkerstraße 56 today

The Elefanten-Apotheke in Düsseldorf is one of the oldest companies in the city. Its history can be traced back to the early modern times. The name "Elephant Pharmacy" had been in use since 1798.

history

In 1565 the pharmacist Quirinus Brem from Dortmund was granted permission by Duke Wilhelm V to run a pharmacy. He ran a pharmacy in Altestadt 7 near the Lambertus Church . The pharmacy remained at this address under Brems's successors until 1697, when it was moved to Andreasstrasse 9, where the traditional restaurant Zum Csikós is located today . After a long-standing family of owners, it was called "Creudersche Apotheke" for about 150 years. In a head tax list from 1663 the pharmacy is mentioned by "Adamus Kreudener" (elsewhere also "Adamus Creuder" or "Adamus Krüder"). The Düsseldorf historian and city chronicler Hugo Weidenhaupt describes the pharmacy mentioned there as the forerunner of the later elephant pharmacy. The Creuder family sold the pharmacy to Johann Wilhelm van Zütphen in 1798. He moved it to Bolkerstraße 46 and called it "Elephant Pharmacy". The reason for this naming is unknown. When the pharmacist Kannenberg owned the business, it burned on June 21, 1834 in the back of the pharmacy, where 34 five-franc pieces from 1809, 1810, 1811 and 1812 and a batch of 3 Altbergian pieces (Blafferte) were found under the broken boards. In 1854 Eduard Bausch (1826-1893) took over the pharmacy and in 1877 moved the business to the house "König von Preussen" at Bolkerstraße 56 (formerly Communicationsstraße 8), which was inhabited by Johann Wilhelm Caspers. The Wilhelminian style house to which the pharmacy was relocated in 1877 was destroyed in the Second World War. As a pharmacy, it was adorned with a large elephant's head above the front door. The pharmacist Bodo Görgel rebuilt the house in 1950. His son Dietrich Bodo Görgel and then his grandson Alexander Görgel have been running the pharmacy ever since. The architect was Gustav August Munzer .

The house has a relief showing an Indian elephant with the year 1565.

literature

  • Julius Broering: The Düsseldorf pharmacies . In: Düsseldorfer Jahrbuch. Contributions to the history of the Lower Rhine. Volume 42. Ed. Düsseldorfer Geschichtsverein, Ed. Lintz, Düsseldorf 1940. Pages 1–127.
  • Elisabeth Korn: Study on the history of the Düsseldorf elephant pharmacy and its owners . Special print from Düsseldorf, Jahrbuch 54, 1972

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Julius Broering: The Dusseldorf pharmacies . In: Düsseldorfer Jahrbuch. Contributions to the history of the Lower Rhine. Volume 42. Ed. Düsseldorfer Geschichtsverein, Ed. Lintz, Düsseldorf 1940. page 10.
  2. ↑ Julius Broering: The Dusseldorf pharmacies . In: Düsseldorfer Jahrbuch. Contributions to the history of the Lower Rhine. Volume 42. Ed. Düsseldorfer Geschichtsverein, Ed. Lintz, Düsseldorf 1940. page 12.
  3. ^ Hugo Weidenhaupt (ed.): Düsseldorf. History from the origins to the 20th century. Volume 2. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-491-34222-8 , p. 126.
  4. ^ Heinrich Ferber: Historical walk through the old city of Düsseldorf . C. Kraus, Düsseldorf 1889. Reprint: Triltsch, Düsseldorf 1980, I p. 134, II p. 54, II p. 113.
  5. ^ Peter Stahnke: Professor Gustav August Munzer (1887–1973): Life and work of the Düsseldorf architect and creator of the Naval Memorial in Laboe . In: Düsseldorfer Jahrbuch, Volume 71.Droste , Düsseldorf 2000, ISBN 3-7700-3046-X , pp. 142f.

Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 35.5 "  N , 6 ° 46 ′ 33.9"  E