Saxon Pharmacy Museum Leipzig
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| place | Leipzig 
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pharmacy
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| opening | July 17, 1999 |
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Saxon Pharmacists Association
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The Saxon Pharmacy Museum Leipzig , located in the house Thomaskirchhof No. 12 in Leipzig , is a museum on the history of pharmacy with special reference to Leipzig. It is operated by the Sächsischer Apothekerverband eV and is located in the building of the former Homeopathic Central Pharmacy together with the Centralapotheke restaurant.
The museum
The museum has exhibits on many aspects of pharmacy. Historical privileges and pharmacy taxes are shown on the history of pharmacy in Saxony. The personalities of the Leipzig family of pharmacists Linck Heinrich Linck (1638–1717), Johann Heinrich Linck (the elder) (1674–1734) and Johann Heinrich Linck (the younger) (1734–1807) play a special role , who in addition to their profession as pharmacists are also important Were naturalists.
Knowledge of drugs and herbal books is imparted and devices used in daily use in the pharmacy are exhibited. But also the pill gilders, which seem somewhat absurd in terms of its purpose for today's views, are shown. Visitors can take action themselves when pressing tablets.
The field of homeopathy , founded by Samuel Hahnemann (1755–1843) in Leipzig in the 1810s, occupies a large area . And finally the house of the museum housed the homeopathic central pharmacy until 1996.
In addition to the museum, the Centralapotheke restaurant with pharmacy interior is located in the same building .
history
After the dispute between the three Leipzig pharmacists and Samuel Hahnemann in 1821 against his production of homeopathic medicines (dispensing dispute), years later these pharmacies joined forces with the newly founded Adler pharmacy in order to serve this market. They bought the homeopathic 1836 Offizin pharmacist Otto in Rötha by his heirs and executed them in a wing of the house in Thomaskirchhof one. From 1851 it was known as the “Homeopathic Dispensing Institution of the United Pharmacists in Leipzig”. The corner house, which still exists today, was built around this time. In 1863 Willmar Schwabe (1839–1917) took over the function of administrator. After he founded his own company in the Central Hall in 1871 , he was able to buy the facility at the Thomaskirchhof in 1878, eliminating the only competition. This was now called “Homeopathic Central Pharmacy Täschner & Co.” and in 1877 it had moved to the more attractive corner rooms of the house.
The descendants of Schwabe handed over the Centralapotheke to Max Sauer in 1932, and so it could remain in private ownership when the entire Schwabe company property was expropriated in 1946. The widow of the last owner sold the pharmacy to the state in 1951. A small pharmaceutical museum was already located on the upper floor during the GDR era. After the pharmacy closed in 1996, it was expanded to become today's museum, which opened on July 17, 1999.
Varia
In the literature about Leipzig it is asserted on various occasions that Karl May (1842–1912) lived above the Central Pharmacy in Leipzig at the time of his fur coat fraud in 1865. At that time, however, the pharmacy did not have house number 12, which is given in the original reports about May, but only received this when it was renumbered in 1888. The number 12 was then in the part of the Thomaskirchhof, which is also known as Der Sack , and is house number 7 today.
However, there is a connection between the pharmacy and Karl May. In May's book Through the Desert , Kara Ben Nemsi carries a “homeopathic first-aid kit from Willmar Schwabe”.
literature
- Horst Riedel, Thomas Nabert (ed.): Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z . 1st edition. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , pp. 23 .
Web links
- Saxon Pharmacy Museum Leipzig. In: Saxon Pharmacists Association. Retrieved October 19, 2017 .
- Hans-Joachim Böttcher: The first homeopathic pharmacies in Leipzig. In: Leipzig reading. Retrieved October 19, 2017 .