Löwenapotheke (Stade)

The Löwen-Apotheke is the only active historical pharmacy still preserved in the old town of Stade and the third oldest company in Stade. The founding of the pharmacy goes back to the time before the Thirty Years War . The official founding date, however, is June 21, 1655, when the pharmacist Gabriel Luther was granted the privilege of running a second pharmacy in Stade, which was then occupied by Sweden, by King Charles X Gustav of Sweden in Stockholm . As a so-called budget pharmacy, it also supplied the Stade garrison. It has been known as the lion pharmacy since 1859 at the latest.

House sign of the lion pharmacy

History of the house

The house at Hökerstraße 37 is a two-storey eaves house with an extended central gable from the middle of the 17th century, which was built after the town fire of 1659 with a more representative storey in front of a gabled house from the second half of the 16th century. The back consists of a three-storey eaves framework to which two side houses were added at the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century. The rear front was drawn in 1978 by the Hamburg artist Hilde Hudemann before the renovation of the entire building, as was the staircase, and in 1994 it was also captured in a modern woodcut by the artist Christa Donatius.

Until the renovation in 1983, the core of the house had remained unchanged for centuries as a stately merchant's house. There were skylights over the next two floors above the two-storey hall, which enabled goods to be pulled up over three floors by means of a gable lift cross. This gable lift cross is now in the European Hanseatic Museum in Lübeck .

The spacious staircase with a balustrade on three sides and a wooden spiral staircase over three floors is characterized by a railing made of graceful traljen. In addition to merchandise management, it served as a representative reception room. Today you can still find old pharmacy equipment there, such as an iron mortar from the 17th century, an old iron press and a pre-industrial tablet press. This listed merchant staircase is a typical example of a hall in a medieval guild house. and, according to the author Else Alpers, arouses Buddenbrook's reminiscences.

While the house was still used as the home of the respective pharmacy owner until 1978, after the renovation it has served as a doctor and pharmacy house since 1984.

The portal has been decorated with a statue of a golden lion since 1893; It comes from a Rhenish carving and at that time replaced a painted picture of a green, reclining lion made of wood. There is also an identical statue at the former Löwen cinema in Tübingen Kornhausstrasse.

In the dispensing shop there is still a fixture made by a craftsman from Stade in 1867, made of solid mahogany wood with old standing vessels.

History of the pharmacy and its pharmacists

In its 350-year history, the pharmacy has had eventful ownership successes. Many of its owners were actively involved in the social and cultural life of the city of Stade.

• Stephanus Wolders (d. 1646), pharmacist, accounting officer of St. Cosmae et Damiani (Stade) , brewer, eight man of the city of Stade, died in 1646.
• Petrus Godtfried, pharmacist
• Gabriel Luther (d. 1670 Stade), from 1655 to 1670 owner of the pharmacy for which the Swedish King Carl X. Gustav granted him the privilege.
• Johannes Schnell (d. 1678 Stade), from 1670 to 1678 he ran the pharmacy after marrying the widow of Gabriel Luther in 1672, Anna Sophia Luther (d. 1676 Stade); Both became parents of the later court varnisher Martin Schnell (born around 1675 in Stade).
• Johann Wernien (died 1708) from Hamburg, from 1680 to 1708 he leased the pharmacy from the Luther children.
• Johann Friedrich Luther (d. 1718), from 1711 to 1718 he ran the pharmacy, for which he was granted the privilege of the Swedish King Karl XI in 1687. transferred and in 1715 the privilege was renewed by the Danish government.
• Gottlieb Richters (d. 1741), 1718–1741, since 1722 as a council pharmacist under oath.
• Hinrich Friedrich Dose (1709–1794 Stade), 1741–1777 owner of the pharmacy, eight man of the city of Stade,
• Otto Christoph Versmann (Hanover 1730–1803 Stade), owner of the pharmacy 1777–1795, Achtmann of the city of Stade from 1790 to 1802, a great-uncle of the Hamburg mayor Johannes Versmann
• Heinrich David Dietrich Versmann (Hannoversch Münden 1764–1830 Stade), 1802–1830 owner of the pharmacy, 1808–1810 eight man of the city of Stade, 1808–1813 treasurer of the city of Stade; 1810–1824 senator and aedile. Versmann represented Stade at the solemn proclamation of Jérôme Bonaparte as King of Westphalia in 1810 and was deported to Hamburg as one of six hostages in 1813 after the French had left Stade; from 1821 owner of the noble estate Schölisch 4.
• Administrator for the widow Versmann: Eduard Ernst Rickes from 1830 to 1836, Ernst Crauel 1836–1842, Adolf Friedrich Meyer 1842–1850, Johann Heinrich Fliedner (Stade 1818–1889 Stade) 1850–1854, Ernst Crauel 1854–1860
• Ernst Crauel (Osterode 1808–1875 Hanover), owner of the pharmacy from 1860 to 1867, previously in 1842 founder of the pharmacy in Hechthausen
• Friedrich Eichstaedt (Hanover 1830–1910 Stade), co-founder of the Corps Hildeso-Guestphalia Göttingen 1854; from 1867 to 1903 owner of the pharmacy; Authorized representative for pharmacy matters at the Stade district government ; District Director of the Dt. Pharmacists' association for the district of Stade from 1873 to 1899; Mayor of the city of Stade 1877–1888, honorary member of the Stade Freemason Lodge Friederike zur Immortlichkeit, which founded a “Friedrich Eichstaedt Foundation” in his honor.
• Adolf Eichstaedt (Stade 1868–1920 Stade), 1903–1920 owner of the pharmacy, 1914–1916 member of the Chamber of Pharmacists of the Province of Hanover, captain in the First World War, great-nephew of Johann Hinrich Pratje
• Administrator for the widow Gertrud Eichstaedt: Christian Mundt from 1920 to 1934, Marga Gronau from 1935 to 1937
• Fritz Eichstaedt (Stade 1907–1968 Stade), owner of the pharmacy from 1937 to 1967, air raid screech chemist in Stade during World War II, pharmacist since 1947, member of the supervisory board of Nordag GmbH, co-founder of the Rotary Club Stade 1955,
• Kurt Tielmann (* 1936), owner of the pharmacy from 1967 to 1998, staff pharmacist of the reserve, member of the chamber assembly of the Chamber of Pharmacists of Lower Saxony, 2003–2009 senior of the St. Antonii Brotherhood of Stade
• Peter Dobberkau (* 1964), owner of the pharmacy from 1998–2013, specialist pharmacist for pharmaceutical analysis , lieutenant dr
• Bärbel Dobberkau (* 1963), owner of the pharmacy since 2013

literature

• Eichstaedt: Three hundred years of Löwenapotheke in Stade . Stade 1955.
• Clasen, Kiecker, Gottfried Kiesow : The art monuments in the city of Stade . Munich 1860.
• Tielmann: 350 years of Löwen-Apotheke in Stade in: Announcements of the Stader Geschichts- und Heimatverein 2009, 24 pages.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Clasen / Kiecker / Kiesow, Kunstdenkmale der Stadt Stade, Munich 1960, p. 187 f.
2. ↑ tageblatt.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ Wohltmann: History of the City of Stade. 1943, p. 19.
4. ^ Alpers, Stader Bilderbogen, Stade 1967
5. ↑ tuepedia.de
6. ↑ Gahde: The origin of the Dresden court varnisher Martin Schnell from Stade , in: Stader Jahrbuch 2017, p. 157 ff.
7. ↑ Wirtgen: The mayors, senators and officials of the city of Stade in the 19th century , in: Stader Jahrbuch 1965, p. 16 u. P. 23.
8. ↑ Jürgen Bohmbach : Stade , from the beginnings of the settlement to the present . Stade 1994, p. 305 ff.
9. ↑ Alstedt, pharmacy in Hechthausen 150 years, Hechthausen 1992, p. 13 ff
10. ↑ Bunzel: History of the Just and Perfect Masonic Lodge No. 342 “Friederike zur Immortlichkeit” , Stade 1995, p. 28.
11. ↑ Bohmbach: Socrates: the history of the Reich air defense, its facilities and properties in and around Stade, 1935–2005, p. 17.