Arzney Kitchen Museum
| Data | |
|---|---|
| place |
Bönnigheim , Ludwigsburg district 
|
| Art | |
| opening | September 2002 |
| operator |
City administration of Bönnigheim
|
| management |
Historical Society of Bönnigheim
|
| Website | |
| ISIL | DE-MUS-101524 |
The Arzney Kitchen Museum is a pharmacy museum in Bönnigheim , Ludwigsburg district . It is the only museum in Germany to deal with the topic of "Use of alcohol as an active ingredient, solvent and preservative in medicine".
history
The Arzney Kitchen Laboratory is the only preserved museum of its kind in Baden-Württemberg. The laboratory is mentioned in a document for the first time in a letter dated August 19, 1843 from the pharmacist Georg Völter, in which he asked for a building permit. As a justification for the construction, he gives "so that the owner is not compelled to prepare cooked Arzneyen in the distant laboratory in wet or cold weather or at night". However, since Völter's wife died that same year, he gave up his pharmacy on Kirchstrasse. The remote laboratory that he mentioned was only rediscovered in 1987 when visiting a dilapidated shed behind the building at Kirchstrasse 22. It was a sandstone-walled room with a cross vault and a fireplace.
exhibition
The laboratory equipment of the exhibition includes, among other things, a cast iron furnace with a copper distillation device including a bottling plant for liqueurs and a large distillation plant with a steam boiler, cooler, water jet pump and vacuum distillation kettle. There is also an antique drawer cabinet from the Darmstadt Engel pharmacy, which emerged from the pharmaceutical company Merck . In the attic, the former herb store, percolators for preparing herbs with alcohol, scales, sieves, cutting machines and plant presses can be examined.
literature
- Eckart Roloff: Visit your doctor or pharmacist . 1st edition. tape 2 : Southern Germany . S. Hirzel Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-7776-2509-6 .
- ARZ Haan AG (Ed.): Pharmacy museums; Travel guide . PACs Society for Promotion, Advertising and Communication Service mbH.