Hauptstrasse 65 (Much)
The half-timbered house at Hauptstrasse 65 in Much in the Rhein-Sieg district has housed the Hirsch pharmacy since 1830. Traffic history was written here with an additional mail collection point.
Beginning
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In March 1830, the pharmacist Johannes Heinrich Weinhold Schulz (1801-1880) , who came from Lünen , received the license to set up a pharmacy in the community of Much. With the help of his brother Johann Thomas Friedrich Schulz (1790-1870), a Protestant pastor in neighboring Seelscheid , he opened the pharmacy in Hauptstrasse 3 (today number 65) on February 2, 1831. Much had 174 predominantly Catholic residents at the time. Pharmacist Schulz and the doctor and obstetrician August Friedrich Lingke (1786-1860) were the only Protestants.
Letter collection point and messenger mail
In October 1832 Schulz also set up the first Mucher letter collection point in the pharmacy , a forerunner of today's postal agency . The order for this came from the General Post Office in Berlin. The wages were 12 thalers a year. Postexpediteur Imhoff from Siegburg sworn in the pharmacist for this task.
Before that, the citizens of Much had to deliver or pick up their parcels or letters themselves in Siegburg. Later a so-called messenger mail existed for three years, for which a postman had to walk the Siegburg - Waldbröl route every Sunday and Thursday. It took him nine hours to travel five miles . Since 1832, the pharmacist Schulz has been forwarding the items he has accepted once a month to Siegburg via this messenger post, getting them back as well, and citizens could drop off their mail or pick it up from him.
In 1835 the messenger mail was abandoned. Schulz was obliged to send his own messenger to Overath three times a week . The pharmacist received 35 thalers a year for the additional task. An official postman wasn't hired until 1839.
In 1836 Schulz left Much to take over a pharmacy in Eitorf . The letter collection point was converted into a mail expedition and outsourced from the pharmacy.
Pharmacy only
In the years to come, the Hirsch pharmacy changed hands several times. Pharmacist Becker was best known as the founder of the local beautification association . From 1899 and 1911 he fought unsuccessfully for the construction of a railway line from Siegburg to Much.
literature
- Paul Henseler: 150 years of Post in Much. A contribution to the history of traffic in the southern Bergisch area. Homeland yearbook for the Bergisches Land 1982. Published by the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis in Bergisch Gladbach. ISBN 387314-118-3 .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 54 '20.2 " N , 7 ° 24' 4.5" E