Mörike pharmacy
The Mörike pharmacy in Neuenstadt am Kocher in the Heilbronn district in northern Baden-Württemberg is a historic pharmacy in the former residence of the Dukes of Württemberg-Neuenstadt . It bears its name after the Möri (c) ke family of pharmacists, who ran the pharmacy for a long time, and from which the poet Eduard Mörike comes from. The pharmacy building at Hauptstrasse 15 is a cultural monument .
history
The building goes back to an old patrician house. From 1704 to 1739 it was owned by the royal court master Stettner von Grabenhofen auf Lobenbach (municipality of Stein). In 1739/45 it was acquired by Gottlieb Friedrich Faber, the princely physician and physicist for the offices of Möckmühl, Neuenstadt and Weinsberg.
Meanwhile, with Johann Bartholomäus Möricke († 1730) as provisional agent of the city pharmacy, a member of the Mörike family is mentioned for the first time in the Neuenstadt pharmacy. He was the son of Hofrat Anton Möricke from Havelberg in Brandenburg. The members of the family did not all spell each other with or without a c , so that the spelling Mörike and Möricke differs between the generations and sometimes even between the spouses. Johann Bartholomäus' son Albrecht Ludwig Möricke († 1771) is named as the city pharmacist. The pharmacist family, who also owned the pharmacy building from 1795, made money through their specialty, namely blood purification pills that were sold by mail, which at the time required a large network of relationships. The fourth city pharmacist from the family was Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Mörike (1770-1859), who was banned from trading in the pills by the Württemberg Ministry of the Interior in 1812, but who then succeeded in allowing him to continue trading with them outside of Württemberg. He was an uncle of the poet Eduard Mörike , who was pastor from 1834 to 1843 in Cleversulzbach, only a few kilometers away . To Carl Friedrich's son Carl Abraham Möricke (1806–1874), who wrote his surname again with c after his marriage , and his wife Marie Mörike nee. Seyffer (1819–1909), who wrote herself again without c when she became a widow, the Mörickestift in Neuenstadt goes back. Carl Möricke sold the pharmacy to the previous tenant or the city of Neuenstadt in 1864/65.
The building is one of the few historical buildings in Neuenstadt that survived the destruction of the Second World War .
description
The building forms a building complex with the adjoining old town house on the right , which is dated to around 1600, while the pharmacy is considered a building from 1801. It is a three-storey building with two half-timbered storeys on a solid sandstone plinth, which has two portals facing the main street and the market square with relief sculptures in the lintel and historical wooden door shutters. The Faber-Sattler alliance coat of arms is located above the entrance. On the left the Faber coat of arms with crowned blacksmith's tongs surrounded by three lilies, on the right the Sattler coat of arms with a white eagle on a golden branch in a blue field.
literature
- Julius Fekete : Art and cultural monuments in the city and district of Heilbronn. 2nd Edition. Theiss, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8062-1662-2 , p. 256 and ill. P. 259.
- Eugen Kreß: Dr. Carl Moericke. The history of the women's foundation in Neuenstadt am Kocher. Self-published by Eugen Kreß, Neuenstadt 2000.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kreß writes on p. 31 that the descendants of the pharmacist Möricke, who once bought the building, “sold the pharmacy to the city in 1864 (?)”. On the other hand, on p. 60: Carl Möricke sold the pharmacy to Georg Adolf Speidel, the previous tenant, in 1865.
Coordinates: 49 ° 14 ′ 13.2 " N , 9 ° 19 ′ 46.3" E