Council pharmacy (type of pharmacy)

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A Ratsapotheke or city pharmacy was historically a pharmacy owned by the city, which was leased by the city council to a pharmacist. To this day, this story has persisted on behalf of many existing pharmacies.

history

When the first pharmacies appeared at the end of the Middle Ages, there was no freedom of trade . Entrepreneurs, including pharmacists, required a license or a privilege to carry out their business . A pharmacist therefore had to ask the prince or the council of free cities for such a concession and then received it depending on his qualifications, his negotiating skills or his financial possibilities.

Since having a pharmacy in the city is useful for the citizens, it was often the case in many imperial cities and especially in the rich Hanseatic cities that, conversely, the council tried to locate pharmacists. The council hired the pharmacist to manufacture the medicines. The pharmacist either worked on his own account or was paid by the city (e.g. in Nuremberg, Augsburg or Regensburg). Since the pharmacy was owned by the council or city, the name Ratsapotheke or city pharmacy was used.

Part of the name

For the pharmacies that have the Ratsapotheke in their name, see Ratsapotheke , for the city pharmacy, the city ​​pharmacy .

literature

  • Ursula Vierkotten: On the history of pharmacy in the city and the Prince Bishopric of Münster iW, Diss. 1969, p. 118 ff.