Löwen Pharmacy (Düren)
The Löwen pharmacy was located in Kaiserplatz 16 in Düren in North Rhine-Westphalia until 2000 .
The oldest verifiable pharmacy in the Duchy of Jülich was that of Heinrich von Rees, whom Duke Reinhold von Jülich (1402–1423) had moved from Cologne to Düren in order to set up a pharmacy there. Possibly there was a pharmacy in the duchy before, because in a document dated February 6, 1419 it says: "Since we have not had a pharmacist in our state of Jülich for some time ..."
After several requests from the Duke, the territorial lords assured von Rees of safe conduct. In 1419 he founded the Löwenapotheke in Düren. There is no further information about the pharmacist. The history of the Löwen-Apotheke has a "hole" of about 200 years.
Matthias Deutgen (born around 1630/1640; died on November 20, 1687) is recorded as the owner from 1670 to 1687. He ran the pharmacy in the "Zum Kaiser" house on Weierstrasse (until 1944 Weierstrasse 15), at that time house number 243. His widow Katharina married the pharmacist Johann Mocurant, who only ran the business for a short time. After his death, the woman continued to run the pharmacy. It is not known when she died.
Heinrich Stamm had already bought the house "Zum Kaiser" in 1687. His son Johann Theodor Stamm took over the Löwenapotheke from his father in 1711 and ran it until 1759. His successor was Karl Barbie, who was married to Maria Adelheid Stamm. He worked as a pharmacist from 1759 to 1776. Karl Barbie's daughter, Anna Katharina Barbie, married Eberhard Heinrich Brauweiler, who ran the pharmacy from 1776 to 1800. He died on New Year's Eve 1800. The daughter Anna Sophia Theresia Brauweiler, who was born into the second marriage, married the pharmacist Théophile Wegelin, who continued the vacant pharmacy of his father-in-law from 1801 to 1807. The pharmacy was still owned by the widow Brauweiler. It was passed on to the son Servaz Brauweiler.
In 1804/1805 the pharmacy was relocated to the main market in the house "Zur Landskrone".
From 1807 to 1827 Johann Servatius Brauweiler worked as a pharmacist in the Löwenapotheke. His nephew Eberhard Josef Wegelin was his successor from July 10, 1827 to April 21, 1838. He was now also the owner by inheritance.
Carl Wilhelm Ferdinand Roesch, born on February 23, 1810 in Frankfurt (Oder) , was a 1st class pharmacist. He took over the concession on May 1, 1838. He was followed by Heinrich Ernst Banning, who was born in Longerich near Münster and had married the Düren factory owner's daughter Elvira Emma Antonia Schüll. He ran the Löwenapotheke from September 1, 1858 to December 31, 1872. On January 1, 1873, the pharmacy was sold to Dr. Nikolaus Caspary from Trier sold. It was in Markt 13. Caspary was also a sworn chemist on the investigative commission for food and beverages in Düren. He sold the Löwenapotheke on October 1, 1887 to Dr. Franz-Josef Hubert sword. In 1890 he founded the factory for medical bandages and pharmaceutical preparations owned by Dr. Degen and Piro , later a cotton and bandage factory Dr. Degen & Kuth (DUKA, now Hartmann). Manufacturing began in his private home at Kölnstrasse 81 . Since the activity as a company owner took up a lot of time, he handed over the pharmacy to Wilhelm Abels on March 28, 1893, who ran it until September 30, 1898. The next buyer was August Kahr, who ran the pharmacy from October 1, 1898 to March 30, 1900. His successor was Carl Friedrich Vetter for the period from April 1, 1900 to July 9, 1927. His son Gustav Vetter took over the pharmacy from July 9, 1927 until the devastating air raid on November 16, 1944. Josef Kuth was already in the war for the conscripted cousin worked in the Löwenapotheke, which he bought on March 4, 1950.
The Löwenapotheke remained in family ownership from then on. The last pharmacist was his daughter Cäcilie Kuth-Michel from 1979 to 2000. On July 27, 2000 the company was closed.
literature
- Josef Geuenich: Heinrich von Rees, 1419 pharmacist in Düren, oldest known pharmacist in the Duchy of Jülich . In: Dürener Geschichtsblätter No. 37, August 1965, published by the Düren History Association .
- Gerhard Eis : To Heinrich von Rees. In: Centaurus. Volume 13, 1969, pp. 285-290.
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 8.4 " N , 6 ° 28 ′ 53.5" E