Mauksch Hintz House
In Cluj-Napoca Hintz House in the main square of Cluj ( Transylvania , Romania ) in 1573 opened the first pharmacy in the city. Today the building is a listed building. The namesake were the owners Tobias Mauksch and Georg Hintz. Today the Casa Hintz, as it is called in Romanian, serves as a pharmacy museum.
history
The pharmacy was founded in 1573 and was the only pharmacy in the city until 1735. It was run by administrators for more than a century. These provisional agents were elected by the city council and handled the business in the name of the city and on its account. The city sold the pharmacy around 1700.
The first private owner was Jakob Fojth from Eperies (now Prešov , Slovakia). He was followed by the Zipser Samuel Schwartz. His cousin, the pharmacist Tobias Mauksch (1727–1802), who was born in Käsmark , bought the house in 1749. Since 1760, the pharmacy was "imperially privileged". Mauksch held public offices and was a member of the state parliament for four years. He, his son Tobias Samuel Mauksch (1769–1805) and the younger son Johann Martin Mauksch (1783–1817) ran the pharmacy until 1817.
In 1822 the building became the property of the pharmacy manager Daniel Szlaby. His widow Eleonore, who was married to Johann Martin Mauksch for the first time, bequeathed the pharmacy to her daughter Mathilda Augusta Mauksch, wife of the Evangelical Lutheran pastor Georg Gottlieb Hintz from Schäßburg . Their son Georg Hintz (1840–1890) took over the pharmacy and house in 1863. The family owned the property until the mid-20th century. The pharmacy was called "Sankt Georg".
In 1948 the communist government expropriated the house without compensation and closed the pharmacy. The pharmacy museum was established in 1954 on the initiative of the medical and pharmaceutical historian Sámuel Izsák (1915–2007) from Cluj-Napoca. Because of political difficulties during the Ceaușescu regime, the descendants of the Hintz family emigrated to the Federal Republic of Germany . After the political change in 1989, they applied for the property to be returned.
building
The classical front of the house was built in the 1820s. The ground floor and basement date from the Renaissance . In the former office there are frescoes on the history of the pharmacy from 1752, which were restored by András Koleszár in 1898. In 1902 the city placed the building under a preservation order. In 1960 the former main sales room on the corner was destroyed for pedestrian access.
present
The building houses private apartments, shops and the pharmacy museum. It has more than 3000 exhibits, including pots, presses, mortars, scales, laboratory cutlery, furniture, medicines, specialist books, old recipes and stamps. In the cellar of the house there is a “witch's kitchen” to illustrate how medicine was concocted. In 2000 the pharmacy was closed for two years due to a burst water pipe. The building has been renovated since autumn 2018 so that the museum's exhibits cannot be made accessible to the public for a period of two years.
literature
- Robert Offner: On the history of the Mauksch family of pharmacists from Klausenburg. In: Zeitschrift für Siebenbürgische Landeskunde, 14th (85th) year, issue 2/91, Böhlau Verlag Cologne / Vienna, 1991, pp. 192–198
- Ernst Wagner: The Mauksch family of pharmacists from Bistritz. In: Zeitschrift für Siebenbürgische Landeskunde, Volume 15 (86), Issue 2/92, Böhlau Verlag Cologne / Vienna, 1992, pp. 189–191.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Muzeul de Istorie a Farmaciei se închide 2 ani, clădirea - una dintre cele mai vechi din Cluj - intră în reabilitare , accessed on December 29, 2019 (Romanian)
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Coordinates: 46 ° 46 ′ 16.2 " N , 23 ° 35 ′ 23" E