Sievers'sche pharmacy

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Sievers'sche pharmacy

The Sievers'sche Apotheke in Salzgitter-Bad is the oldest pharmacy in the area of ​​today's city of Salzgitter . It was founded in 1749 by Gottfried Christian Albrecht Sievers and has been owned by the Sievers family in the eighth generation since then. This makes it one of the oldest pharmacies in Germany that is still owned by the same family without interruption.

History and foundation of the pharmacy

In the middle of the 17th century, the Sievers family lived in Sooden near Allendorf in Hessen . Christoph Sievers, the founder's great-grandfather, was employed as a brine master in the local saltworks . Between 1660 and 1664 he moved with a large part of his family to what was then the Salzliebenhalle (today: Salzgitter-Bad), where he was employed in the saline.

Gottfried Christian Albrecht Sievers, the founder of the Sievers'schen Apotheke, was born on November 17, 1710 in Gandersheim . His father was the bath and surgeon Johann Christoph Sievers (1669–1736). He introduced Gottfried Christian Albrecht to the basics of surgery . From 1731 to 1732 he attended lectures on anatomy and surgery at the medical faculty in Erfurt . He then took a position as a surgeon in an imperial regiment. After his father died, Gottfried Christian returned to Gandersheim in 1737. There he started a trade in spices and ran a small pharmacy and a surgical practice. Two years later he moved his business to Salzliebenhalle, where he married Sophia Margarethe Catharina Bosse, the daughter of the mayor, on November 11, 1739. His cousin Johann Christoph Sievers (1693–1764) was the leaseholder of the salt works at the time and thus an influential man in the small town.

At that time there were already several pharmacies in Salzliebenhalle. The first was founded in 1686 by Andreas Kinderling. Around 1690 the Braunschweiger Hofapotheke opened a branch pharmacy. The tradesman Johann Christian Pfeiffer from Seesen took over a pharmacy founded 10 years earlier by Friedrich Böker in 1738. What all these pharmacies had in common was that, although they had been granted a license to operate, they were not granted a privilege that would prevent others from selling medicines.

Gottfried Christian Albrecht Sievers was the first in Salzliebenhalle to whom the Hildesheim prince-bishop Clemens August granted such a privilege to set up a pharmacy on November 20, 1749. The certificate from the Erfurt medical faculty and the experience he had gained during his service as a surgeon contributed to the positive assessment of his application.

With this privilege Sievers was the only one who was allowed to sell medicines in the future. The rest of the local merchants turned against this and filed a lawsuit against Sievers' privilege, which was rejected. Since the dispute was not resolved and the pharmacy was threatened with a boycott, Sievers gave up in 1753 and resumed a position as regimental surgeon. He died in 1758.

Grave site of the Sievers family of pharmacists in the Vöppstadt cemetery

Sievers had not returned the privilege for his pharmacy and so his son Gottfried Heinrich Sievers (1743 / 44-1824) was able to take over the pharmacy business in 1769. Heinrich Sievers completed his apprenticeship as a pharmacist in 1764 and then worked as a journeyman in Hornburg and Zerbst for five years . At that time there were two other pharmacies in Salzliebenhalle, but they had ceased operations around 1780. Only then did Sievers apply for an exclusive privilege for his pharmacy, which was issued to him on November 21, 1783. For this he had to undertake to run his pharmacy in accordance with the applicable medical regulations. As an annual fee, six Reichstaler were paid to the episcopal treasury. Sievers also took part in the management of the merchants' guild and was unanimously elected mayor of Salzgitter in 1790; he retained this office until the beginning of the French era (1807). Gottfried Heinrich died in 1824, he was buried in the Vöppstedter cemetery . In addition to the grave of Gottfried Heinrich and his wife Johanna Friederike Amalie, other graves of the Sievers family have been preserved in the Vöppstedter cemetery.

Operation in the 19th century

Carl Friedrich Conrad Sievers (1781–1853), the son of Gottfried Heinrich, had been an apprentice to the pharmacist Heyer in the Braunschweig pharmacy on Hagenmarkt from 1794 to 1799 ; afterwards he worked as an assistant in pharmacies in Lüchow , Harburg , Hamburg , Wunstorf , Plön and Ritzebüttel . From 1813 he worked as the first assistant in his father's pharmacy, which he took over as a pharmacist in 1823 after graduating.

After the takeover, Carl first carried out a modernization of his father's pharmacy, which was completed in 1825. In a later audit report he was certified that “the pharmacy is currently so admirably and appropriately set up in all its parts that it actually leaves nothing to be desired.” This facility was used by the pharmacy until the renovation in 1980 and thereafter Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum donated.

In September 1828 Carl Sievers opened a branch pharmacy in nearby Liebenburg , for which he soon built a new house in today's Schlossstrasse, which he moved into in autumn 1830. In February 1832, Carl sold his Liebenburg pharmacy to the pharmacist Emanuel Donner, to whom he had previously transferred the management.

During an inspection of the pharmacy in 1817 by the state auditor Professor Friedrich Stromeyer , a yellowish impurity was discovered in the zinc oxide that Sievers obtained from the chemical factory in Salzgitter for the manufacture of medicines . During the investigation, Stromeyer discovered the element cadmium .

Carl Sievers' son Johann Friedrich Wilhelm (1828–1904) was the first of the family to study pharmacy . He completed his apprenticeship from 1843 to 1847 with Friedrich Ludwig Bethke in the Rats-Apotheke zu Clausthal , and for the following four years he worked as an assistant in various pharmacies. He then studied pharmacy in Göttingen , where he passed his pharmacy exam. His two sons also became pharmacists. William, the older of the two, continued to run the father's pharmacy, his younger brother Kuno took over the pharmacy in Meine (today: Alte Apotheke) in 1893 .

In operation since the end of the 19th century

William Sievers (1858–1921), the son of Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Sievers, graduated from high school in Wolfenbüttel . After completing his apprenticeship as a pharmacist, he worked for five years in various locations before starting to study pharmacy in Munich in 1884 . After the state examination, he studied chemistry in Strasbourg and Giessen and received his doctorate. phil. From 1889 to 1921 he ran his father's pharmacy.

Joachim Sievers (1897–1970) was the son of William Sievers. In 1914 he began his apprenticeship in pharmacy. He then studied pharmacy in Würzburg , Gießen and Braunschweig .

In 1970 Otto Sievers took over the pharmacy from his father Joachim. When the old rooms of the pharmacy no longer met the changed regulations, he had the old building of the pharmacy, in which it had been located since the establishment, replaced by a new building in 1980.

Joachim Sievers has been running the pharmacy in the 8th generation since 1994. He is a pharmacist and pharmacist .

literature

  • Joachim Sievers: The Sievers family of pharmacists - a contribution to the history of pharmacy in Salzgitter-Bad , Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum 3/1999 ( online as PDF; 1.3 MB).
  • Heike von Brandenstein: History of the pharmacies in Salzgitter from their foundation to the beginning of the 20th century , Salzgitter Forum, Volume 14, 1993, pages 136–171.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Edward Kurlbaum: A list of residents of Sooden an der Werra from 1574. , in: News of the Society for Family Studies in Kurhessen and Waldeck, 14th year, November 1939 No. 3, p. 97 ff
  2. ↑ Jürgen v. Damm: Genealogy around the family v. Dam in Braunschweig. , here: great-grandfather Gottfried Sievers, vol. 9, 1994, p. 227 ff
  3. ^ Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum: Die Apothekerfamilie Sievers , p. 9
  4. ^ Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum: Die Apothekerfamilie Sievers , pp. 6, 10-13
  5. ↑ a b Heike von Brandenstein: History of the pharmacies in Salzgitter , pp. 138-139
  6. ↑ Heike von Brandenstein: History of the pharmacies in Salzgitter , p. 140
  7. ^ Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum: Die Apothekerfamilie Sievers , pp. 10, 12-13
  8. ↑ a b Heike von Brandenstein: History of the pharmacies in Salzgitter , p. 142
  9. ^ Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum: Die Apothekerfamilie Sievers , pp. 10, 15-18
  10. ^ Wolfgang Schneider: The Sievers family of pharmacists . Reprint of the Süddeutsche Apothekerzeitung No. 46, November 1949. pp. 842–843
  11. ↑ Ursula Wolff: The Vöppstedter Friedhof in Salzgitter-Bad , Salzgitter Yearbook 1995/1996, Volume 17/18, Salzgitter 1996 pp. 125–126
  12. ^ Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum: Die Apothekerfamilie Sievers , p. 19
  13. ^ Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum: Die Apothekerfamilie Sievers , pp. 20–22
  14. ^ Chronicle of the pharmacy in Liebenburg
  15. ↑ Jürgen Stricker: Salzgitteraner Apotheke with 270 years of family tradition , Salzgitter-Zeitung of January 11, 2020
  16. ↑ Hans-Georg Knöß: Contributions to Sölterschen history. Booklet 1: The chemical factory in Salzgitter and its connections to the salt works in Salzliebenhalle 1788-1850 . Ed. AG Ortschronik Salzgitter-Bad, Salzgitter, March 2012, pp. 15–16
  17. ^ History of the Clausthal Ratsapotheke
  18. ^ A b Heike von Brandenstein: History of the pharmacies in Salzgitter , pp. 143-146
  19. ↑ Heike von Brandenstein: History of the pharmacies in Salzgitter , p. 146