Ratsapotheke Rostock

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The Ratsapotheke in Rostock in the house on the Neuer Markt has a long history - it has been located in the historic gabled house in Rostock's city center for over 465 years. One floor above the rooms of today's pharmacy is the Empire room with a classical design.

history

Rostock's pharmacy history began as early as the 13th century. After the first pharmacy opened in Baghdad in 760, Emperor Friedrich II . 1240 the first privileges to set up pharmaceutical shops in the Holy Roman Empire . This is how the first pharmacies came into being in Cologne , Wismar , Würzburg , Freiberg , Goslar and Augsburg . First evidence of the presence of a pharmacy in Rostock goes back to the year 1260. The Ratsapotheke was first mentioned in 1542. In that year, the City Council bought the house on Neuer Markt 13, which previously housed a “city pharmacy”. This is where the “Ratsapotheke” was located. In the same year, the city of Rostock acquired parts of the building in Blutstrasse, today Kröpeliner Strasse , which then also belonged to the Ratsapotheke.

As early as 1634 the "Ratsapotheke" was equipped with the most famous herbal books of the time. Many medicinal plants and substances were produced and used that are still used today. The list of medicinal products also included substances that seem quite unusual for today's world. These include pigeon weed , toad dill, Teuffelsabbit , parts of animals (wolf liver, fox lungs, goat's blood), parts of people (human fat, human brain shells, human flesh), metals and metal compounds (gold leaves, sublimate), paints (sap green, umber) or sugar works such as confectionery and marzipan.

Up until 1698 the Rostock “Ratsapotheke” had an exclusive right - until the late 17th century, no pharmacies other than the “Ratsapotheke” in Rostock were allowed to prepare and sell medicines. However, in 1698 this right was repealed. Today's “Deer Pharmacy” at the Marienkirche was then the first “side pharmacy” in Rostock. In 1726 the pharmacy was expanded to include its own laboratory .

The "Ratsapotheke" was characterized by various forms of operation: While pharmacy management predominated from 1571 to 1635, from 1635 the council turned to leasing the pharmacy. After the "Ratsapotheke" had been sold to ten different tenants by 1789, in 1789 it became private property. Christopf Mähl († 1818), who bought the building, initiated a renovation of the baroque facade design due to the poor condition of the house . The appearance of the gabled house, which was restored that year, comes very close to its present appearance.

In 1818 the pharmacist Michael Friedrich Kühl († 1836) from Malchow acquired the Ratsapotheke for 40,000 Reichsthaler after the city had waived its right of first refusal. After his death, his son Bernhard Friedrich Kühl (born August 7, 1808 in Malchow; † 1882) took over the pharmacy and expanded it to include a commercial enterprise in which he produced cocoa preparations, chocolate and artificial mineral waters. From 1844 to 1846 Friedrich Gaedcke was an apprentice in Kühl's Ratsapotheke. Kühl was a medical assessor and district director in the North German Pharmacists' Association. In 1871 he was a member of the twelve-person commission from various German states for the publication of the Pharmacopoea Germanica . His eldest son, Johann Friedrich Kühl († 1909) studied pharmacy in Berlin and Rostock and traveled to Italy, France and Switzerland. In 1864 he acquired Rostock citizenship and was registered as an authorized signatory of the Ratsapotheke, in 1866 he took over the pharmacy, which he ran until 1877.

In 1877 the pharmacy went to the pharmacist Gottlieb Richard Niewerth. He was followed by the council pharmacist Uebe and from 1919 Theodor Schalhorn took over the council pharmacy, who continued to run it as a council pharmacy and drug store even after the war.

In 1935 the “Ratsapotheke” became the teaching pharmacy of the state of Mecklenburg. The pharmacy owes its privileged position with regard to medical care to this fact. Because of this, renovation work was also carried out in order to maintain standards and improve teaching conditions.

From the early 1960s the pharmacy was called Uniapotheke, before being given its original name again in 1977. In 1985 a renovation took place in order to preserve the late baroque appearance. After further renovation and expansion work in 1990 with contemporary dispensing equipment, a wholesale business with drugs and veterinary items was added to the pharmacy.

Empire hall

The hall above the pharmacy's rooms, designed in Empire style in 1789 , is characterized by elaborate wall and ceiling decorations, including decorative friezes and stucco, palmette, leaf and loop reliefs, as well as motifs from Roman and Greek mythology. In 1991 the hall was restored. Events such as chamber music evenings, small receptions or press appointments take place here.

literature

  • Harald Schümann: From Apothecarii, Physici and Clystierweibern. Pharmacists and pharmacies in the city of Rostock in eight centuries. A history of pharmaceuticals. Redieck & Schade, Rostock 2003, ISBN 3-934116-25-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ratsapotheke Rostock -Since 1542. ( Memento from April 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Website of the Ratsapotheke Rostock. Retrieved May 25, 2010.
  2. ↑ Historical Rostock Buildings: The Ratsapotheke. at: mv-terra-incognita.de , private website on state and regional history, accessed on April 14, 2014.
  3. ↑ a b Rudolph Zaunick: On the prehistory of cocaine isolation: the Dömitz pharmacist Friedrich Gaedcke (1828–1890); a contribution to the Mecklenburg pharmacist history. In: Contributions to the history of pharmacy and its neighboring areas. Volume 2 (1956), pp. 5-13 ( GoogleBooks )
  4. ↑ Gisela Boeck: A shooting star in the sky of chemistry. The Dömnitz pharmacist Friedrich Gaedcke (1828–1890). In: Ernst Münch, Kersten Krüger (Hrsg.): Dömitz personalities from 775 years of city history: Contributions to the Mecklenburg state and regional history from the day of state history in October 2012 in Dömitz. (= The fortress courier. Volume 13). Norderstedt 2013, ISBN 978-3-7322-4255-9 , p. 55 ff. ( GoogleBooks )
  5. ↑ Berlin Clinical Weekly . No. 41, October 9, 1871, p. 495 f. ( GoogleBooks )
  6. ^ German clinic. No. 41, October 14, 1871, p. 375 ( GoogleBooks )
  7. ^ Official supplement for official announcements of the city of Rostock. To No. 161 of the "Rostocker Zeitung". No. 9, July 9, 1864, p. 104 ( GoogleBooks )
  8. ^ Official supplement for official announcements of the city of Rostock. To No. 215 of the "Rostocker Zeitung". No. 12, September 10, 1864, p. 121 ( GoogleBooks )
  9. ↑ a b c Neuer Markt 13 ( Memento from November 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), archived website on the Neuer Markt (Rostock)

Coordinates: 54 ° 5 ′ 19 ″  N , 12 ° 8 ′ 22.1 ″  E