Rose pharmacy (Heilbronn)
The Rose Pharmacy is a pharmacy in Heilbronn . It was once located in the former patrician courtyard of the Jeßlin family at Heilbronn town hall , which was documented as early as the 17th century . The old rose pharmacy gained importance as the house where the physicist Robert Mayer (1814–1878) was born, whose father had worked there as a pharmacist since 1810. The pharmacy was later continued by Robert Mayer's brother Fritz. The old building was demolished in 1882, and a successor building that was still used as a rose pharmacy was destroyed in the Second World War. The rose pharmacy, which still exists today, moved into its current building at Wilhelmstrasse 54 after the Second World War .
history
The property at today's corner of Rosengasse and Rathausgasse was owned by Mayor Jeßlich in 1649, and later by Mayor Mockel. In the 18th century the Italian merchant family Bianchi lived in the building. In 1810, the rose pharmacy was opened as the fourth pharmacy in Heilbronn by Christian Jakob Mayer (1769-1830). Mayer's youngest son Robert was born in the building in 1814 and grew up there. His eldest brother Fritz Mayer continued the parental pharmacy, the second brother Gustav Mayer became a pharmacist in Messkirch and later a revolutionary in Sinsheim. After Fritz Mayer's death in 1874 the widow (née Herwig) sold the property to a Dr. Steinau, who had the old house demolished in 1882. A part of the property remained undeveloped and formed the breakthrough from Rathausgasse to Lohtorstrasse. The successor to the rose pharmacy built on the remaining western half of the property was destroyed in the air raid in 1944 . Today the property is undeveloped, it forms the southeast corner of the parking lot behind the Käthchenhof near the town hall . The rose pharmacy under pharmacist Koch moved into the building at Wilhelmstrasse 54 after the Second World War .
Robert Mayer's birthplace
The Heilbronn historian Friedrich Dürr described the house where Robert Mayer was born in 1914 as follows:
“The house in which Robert Mayer saw the light of day 100 years ago, the old rose pharmacy founded in 1810 as the fourth pharmacy, named after the opposite Gasthof zur Rose, no longer stands today. It was an older building with two floors above the ground floor, with its long side extending from the current rose pharmacy across Rathausgasse to the west side of the town hall. In the middle of the ground floor a large arched gate led into the courtyard behind it, which was enclosed by a high wall and was inhabited by chickens and ducks and had a few farms. Behind the courtyard, a garden stretched to the rear of the current Kleinbach house (Lohtorstrasse 10). A smaller gate leading to the east led to a little alley leading to Lohtorstrasse. Since the passage caused the owner a lot of inconvenience, pharmacist Fritz Mayer, Roberts' older brother, had the gate walled up later and turned the room into his study next to the office. So this house, with its old stairs, corridors and corners, along with the courtyard and garden, was the playground for the boy Robert Mayer, where he could hang around happily and freely with his peers, Gustav Rümelin and others. In the western part of the house was the laboratory in which he laid the foundation for his scientific knowledge. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to Schmolz / Weckbach: Heilbronn - history and life of a city . 2nd Edition. Anton H. Konrad Verlag, Weißenhorn 1973, ISBN 3-87437-062-3 , No. 178, p. 71.
- ↑ Dürr 1914
- ^ Marianne Dumitrache, Simon M. Haag: Archaeological city cadastre Baden-Württemberg. Volume 8: Heilbronn. Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg , Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-927714-51-8 , p. 159 No. 400
- ↑ Dürr 1914
literature
- Friedrich Dürr: Memories of Robert Mayer . In: Helmut Schmolz, Hubert Weckbach: Robert Mayer. His life and work in documents. Anton H. Konrad Verlag, Weißenhorn 1964 ( publications of the archive of the city of Heilbronn. Volume 12), DNB 454416466 , pp. 16-17 (originally in Heilbronner Unterhaltungsblätter , supplement to the Neckar-Zeitung , No. 97 of November 23, 1914.)
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Coordinates: 49 ° 8 '34.2 " N , 9 ° 13' 5.3" E