Löwen Pharmacy (Leipzig)

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The Löwenapotheke 2015 in Gloeck's house

The Löwen-Apotheke at Brühl 52 / corner Nikolaistraße is the oldest pharmacy company in Leipzig with over 600 years of operation . During this time the pharmacy was housed in different locations in the city center.

history

The history of the pharmacy begins with the move of professors and students from Prague to Leipzig in 1409. The pharmacist Huter and two journeymen came with them. They initially set up a pharmacy “Zum Güldenen Löwen” in the Dominican monastery of St. Pauli . But this soon moved to the corner of the market square Thomasgäßchen. In 1580 the Löwen pharmacy - like the Salomon and Mohren pharmacies that were later created - was placed under the supervision of the medical faculty. The pharmacy was owned by the Huter family until 1559. Then she came to the Walpurger family. In 1592 the pharmacy was moved to Grimmaische Straße 15.

The era of the Linck family of pharmacists began in 1671. Heinrich Linck first leased the pharmacy and bought it in 1686. He moved it to his house at Grimmaische Straße 22, which he had re-built as a baroque building in 1705/1706. As early as the 1670s, he had started to set up a natural collection. In 1710 he handed the pharmacy and collection over to his sons Christian Heinrich and Johann Heinrich (the elder) . While Christian Heinrich took care of the pharmacy, Johann Heinrich carried out natural research and expanded the collection into one of the most famous of its time. His son Johann Heinrich Linck (the younger) , who took over the pharmacy from 1757, opened the "Linck'sche Naturalien- und Kuriositätenkabinett", which was located on the upper floor of the pharmacy, to the public. It was one of the main attractions of the city.

  • around 1710

  • around 1900

  • Shop window lion around 1900

  • 2014

In 1818 the pharmacist August Rohde bought the pharmacy and collection from Linck's widow. This ended the three generations of the Lincks in the Löwenapotheke. Rohde sold the collection to the Waldenburg Prince Otto Victor I. von Schönburg . He erected a special building for this purpose, where it can still be seen today in the Waldenburg Natural History Collection .

Next, the Löwen pharmacy went to the pharmacist Carl Otto Linné Loeßner and in 1866 to Carl Gottlieb Loeßner and then to his son. His nephew Fritz Linné Loeßner rebuilt the pharmacy rooms in 1930 while retaining the baroque facade of the house. On December 4, 1943 , the house at Grimmaische Strasse 22 was destroyed by an aerial bomb. Fritz Linné Loeßner then set up an emergency pharmacy in the Hansahaus opposite (Grimmaische Strasse 13-15), which was later expanded into the new Löwenapotheke. In 1953 Loeßner was expropriated, but remained manager of the pharmacy, which he rebuilt in 1962. In 1963 Helmut Fechner took over the management of the Staatliche Löwen-Apotheke, which now became the district pharmacy with the district depot for medicines for the Leipzig district. In 1978 the pharmacist Sigrid Böhme became the manager.

In 1983 a new building was built for the Löwen pharmacy on the property at 19 Grimmaische Strasse at the corner of Nikolaistrasse. In 1990 the pharmacy was privatized and Sigrid Böhme and Horst Görlt as a general partnership operated. In 2007 Michael Sauter took over the management of the Löwen pharmacy. The Löwen-Apotheke has been opening its doors at Brühl 52 / corner Nikolaistraße since August 10, 2015. This happened because the house at 19 Grimmaische Strasse at the corner of Nikolaistrasse was sold and needs extensive renovation. The historic pharmacy found a new, appropriate location in Gloeck's house at Brühl 52 / corner of Nikolaistraße.

literature

  • Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z . PRO LEIPZIG, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , pp. 370/371
  • Michael Sauter: 600 years of Löwen Apotheke Leipzig . In: Pharmaceutical newspaper. 154th year, 2009, issue 51/52, pp. 105–107 ( digitized version )

Web links

Commons : Leuven Pharmacy  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl-Günter Petzold: The history of the Leipzig pharmacy business from its beginnings to the middle of the 18th century. A critical contribution to the history of pharmacy as reflected in the city and university history. 2 volumes, rer. nat. Dissertation EMAU Greifswald (Pharmacy Section) 1972.
  2. ↑ Ernst Müller: The house names of old Leipzig . (Writings of the Association for the History of Leipzig, Volume 15). Leipzig 1931, reprint Ferdinand Hirt 1990, ISBN 3-7470-0001-0 , p. 28

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 23 "  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 41"  E