City Pharmacy (Wiesloch)
The city pharmacy in Wiesloch in the Rhein-Neckar district in northern Baden-Württemberg dates back to the 18th century. The pharmacist Johann Philipp Bronner (1792–1864), who ran the pharmacy from 1816, achieved its first national importance . He was considered an important pioneer of viticulture in Baden and had the current building built in 1858. In August 1888, the city pharmacy became famous as the "first gas station in the world".
history
A pharmacy existed in Wiesloch before 1711. In that year a pharmacist from Eberbach opened a second pharmacy in the village, which was closed again in the same year. In the following years the older pharmacy was also closed, as the pharmacist Gerhard Hoffmann was more concerned with his field goods and other matters than with the pharmacy. In 1731 the pharmacists Chevallier and Wolff applied for the successor. Wolff came to the train, but died soon afterwards. In June 1735 the Chevallier from Frankenthal was granted the pharmacy privilege . At this point in time, Wolff's father-in-law had already sold the pharmacy to the Heidelberg pharmacist Thollaeus, so that in August 1735 he was granted an operating license. Thollaeus was followed by two generations of the Maerklin family of pharmacists, followed by the younger Maerklin's son-in-law, Johann Philipp Bronner from Neckargemünd, in 1816 . Bronner devoted himself to the study of pharmacy-related natural sciences, put on extensive scientific collections and made a special contribution to the promotion of viticulture.
When Bronner took over the Wiesloch pharmacy, it was still in the building on the corner of Kirch- and Pfarrgasse. He moved the headquarters first to a building on the corner of Hauptstraße / Pfarrgasse and then to the building at Hauptstraße 91. In 1858 Bronner had the current building built at Hauptstraße 96, where his son Georg Philipp Bronner succeeded him as a pharmacist. Jacob Moos was a pharmacist in 1868 and Willi Ockel succeeded him in 1877.
At the beginning of August 1888, Bertha Benz , the wife of the Baden automobile inventor Carl Benz , drove with her 13 and 15 year old sons in their vehicle , the Benz Patent Motor Car number 3 , from Mannheim to Pforzheim . On this first long-distance journey in automobile history, the three motorists south of Heidelberg ran out of fuel . The light petrol ligroin required by the vehicle , which was then offered as a cleaning agent, was purchased from pharmacist Ockel in the Wiesloch city pharmacy. The city pharmacy became the first gas station in the world, and its pharmacist Ockel became the first gas station attendant .
The pharmacy was later often the target of veteran rallies, in which the historical tank scene was often recreated. A memorial designed by Pit Elsasser was erected near the pharmacy . Since 2008 the Bertha Benz Memorial Route has followed Bertha Benz's historic route. The pharmacy can no longer be approached, however, as Wieslocher Hauptstrasse has long been converted into a pedestrian zone .
literature
- Stadt-Apotheke Wiesloch (Ed.): 250 years Stadt-Apotheke Wiesloch 1735–1985 , Wiesloch 1985
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Footnotes
- ^ Bertha Benz Memorial Route - The world's first petrol station . Retrieved October 24, 2014.
Coordinates: 49 ° 17 ′ 41.3 ″ N , 8 ° 41 ′ 54 ″ E