Court pharmacy Lich
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The Hofapotheke Lich is a pharmacy in the Hessian city of Lich . Founded in 1703, it is the oldest pharmacy in the county of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich . The pharmacy building next to the Lich Castle is a listed building.
history
On June 20, 1703, Philipp Jakob Müntz received a “Gracious Gracious Privilege and Freyheits letter from the Muntzische Apotheke in the Hochgräffl. Residence-Stadt Lich ”by Count Adolf Moriz zu Solms and Tecklenburg. Müntz, who was born in 1667 as the son of a citizen of Lich, thus received an exclusive and hereditary pharmacy privilege. He was told to pay attention to the highest quality of the medication and to stick to the Frankfurt tax rate when setting prices .
The exclusivity was ended by the trade edict of 1827 and the law of July 30, 1848. In 1731, Müntz's son-in-law, Johann Christian Kämper, took over the pharmacy. After his death in 1747, a provisional manager initially managed the pharmacy until the privilege was transferred to Philipp Jakob Schwenck in 1753. Schwenck was born in 1707 and did an apprenticeship with the pharmacist Joh. Kaspar Müntz in Eisenach . Schwenck was a rich man. He was a pharmacist and councilor in Lich, owned a house, four stables and a barn. Johann Jakob Schwenk took over his father's pharmacy from his four sons (he also had five daughters), but died at the age of 46, after which his brother Johann August Schwenck (February 13, 1756 - July 8, 1840) came into possession of the pharmacy in 1798 . He was Dr. med., physics doctor Hofmedicus and Hofrat . He was considered a very educated man. His library filled three rooms in his house.
With the mediatization of the Counts of Solms in 1803, the existing privilege was renewed on November 18, 1803 by the Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt. The pharmacy was raised to the court pharmacy .
After Schwenck's death, the nephew of his first wife, Ludwig Kasimir Weber (born February 6, 1806 in Birstein) initially became the pharmacy's provisional before he bought it from Schwenck's widow for 10,000 guilders. Weber ran the pharmacy for 37 years. He was married to Luise Charlotte Henriette, the daughter of the future Princely Forestry Council Braun. The marriage resulted in five children, including Arnold Wilhelm Weber (born November 24, 1844). He learned pharmacy from pharmacist Vogt in Butzbach in 1859, worked in pharmacies in Mannheim, Worms and Singen and studied in Giessen and Heidelberg, where he became an assistant to Professor Erlenmeyer . In 1877 he bought his father's pharmacy in Lich.
Arnold Wilhelm Weber and his wife Maria, born Krausser, had nine children. The eldest son, Ludwig Weber (born May 10, 1875) followed in his father's footsteps. He did an apprenticeship in his father's pharmacy, worked in Kappeln (Schlei), Kiel-Neumühlen and Zurich and studied in Darmstadt. From 1902 he was then provisional for a pharmacy in Thun (Switzerland) before he took over the Licher pharmacy in 1906.
From 1912 to 1915 he built the new pharmacy building, had the residential building rebuilt from 1921 to 1922 and the rear building demolished in 1925 to create the pharmacy garden.
Ludwig Weber remained unmarried. On March 20, 1929, his brother Johannes Theodor Weber joined the company as a partner and in 1949 acquired Ludwig's shares. Other family members also joined the pharmacy: Hans Weber (born December 4, 1889, approved 1921) and Lotte Weber (born August 30, 1911, approved 1939).
Today the pharmacy is run by Volker Glaub.
The pharmacy building
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The pharmacy was originally located opposite the town hall (Vogt House No. 2). Johann August Schwenck moved it to a newly built house near the castle, the current location.
The current pharmacy building with address Unterstadt 23, 25, 27 was built between 1912 and 1915 and is now a listed building . It is a three-part baroque building made up of a five-axis corner building, a four-axis central section and a two-axis risalit. It has a mansard roof with dormers. In addition to the house, the garden temple in the pharmacy garden is also a listed building.
literature
- Ludwig Weber: On the history of the pharmacy in Lich; in: Licher Heimatbuch, Lich 1950, self-published by the city of Lich, pp. 206–210
- Karlheinz Lang; State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (Ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. District of Giessen I. Hungen, Laubach, Lich, Reiskirchen (monument topography Federal Republic of Germany). Theiss, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-8062-2178-7 , pp. 368-441
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Coordinates: 50 ° 31 '8.2 " N , 8 ° 49' 9.6" E