Raths-Apotheke (Bremen)

The Raths -Apotheke in Bremen is a Grade II listed building at Bremen's market square, Am Markt No. 11 is part of the monument ensembles Am Markt 1 to 21

History

Since about 1510 there was already a now unknown location in Bremen, probably in the Sögestraße, a council pharmacy. Documented it was first mentioned on October 1, 1532 as the " ... public do Kund and confess ..." "... the Mayor and Aldermen of Bremen ... " in a certificate of appointment that the Raths - pharmacist his " ... citizens and patients his goods to a measured value willingly sell and do everything and do should, what a sincere pharmacist is present well ..." The operator received the income of the pharmacy from Bremen Council. Since the 17th century, the Council leased this pharmacy for 10 years, later for life. The Superintendence had the third mayor and a councilor.

From 1594 to 1820 stood at the present site of the pharmacy two beautiful three-storey gabled houses of the Weser Renaissance with unequal land widths and heights gable. These two buildings, with two or three window axis, were built according to plans by Lueder von Bentheim. In the two houses, the pharmacy and the Bremer Akzisemeisterei were. More pharmacies came in Bremen in the 17th century about this: in 1640 the Unicorn pharmacy, 1667, the Hirsch Pharmacy and the pharmacy for white rose.

In August 1815, the Council sold the property to the former tenant Jacob Henschen. The demolished the two dilapidated gable houses by 1820. In 1830 was built on two plots a simple, traufständiger, three-story, neoclassical building, in the style of Biedermeier architecture. On the northwest side of the square the plastered building seemed strange and inappropriate. This building was badly damaged in the February 11, 1893 by a fire, especially the upper floors. The owner of Frederick Hauck could not afford a rebuild.

After a rain, public discussion, even in Parliament of Bremen, solidified the view that "... the marketplace each Bremen has grown to heart so much that a permanent Verunzierung should be averted if possible of the same ... ". When restoring its front a representative new facade was required. It was conducted from 1893 to 1894 after plans by the former cathedral architect Max Salzmann in the German Renaissance style. It was used yellowish Silesian marble. The central gable above the eaves and a bay window in left and 2nd floor to thereby give an emphasis on the vertical. The owner received from the city of Bremen a higher subsidy of 15,000 and of the petroleum merchant Franz Schütte 10,000 marks in order to build the increased cost of the cityscape formative façade can.

The building burned on 6 October 1944 during the Second World War. The front facade has been preserved with the bay window and the bottom floor of the gable. The reconstruction after the war began, first to the second floor. Only from 1957 to 1958 the entire building was completed according to plans by Herbert anchor. Instead of the previously existing resources pediment gable two came in the New Baroque. Thus, the present to 1820/30 gable series was restored to the marketplace. The left gable is similar to the destroyed central gable, the right arranges itself in its forms, the whole under. The two-storey bay window from the first, to shut a pediment in the form and arrangement to the second floor, has lost its original meaning by the current presence of two gables. From his therefore initially planned demolition has been apart. His early dome-like roof was replaced by simpler copper- covered slopes. On the right gable is a sundial, one of around 125 sundials in Bremen.

From left building entrance you today reached a medical center in the right house is the Raths -Apotheke, the Brigitte Real, born Hauck and husband Dr. Horst Kirsten and Real Real Real and Thomas is operated.

Conservation

In 1973, the Raths -Apotheke was declared a National Monument. See also: List of cultural monuments in Bremen-Mitte.

The buildings on the north west side of the square is from right to left of the following four buildings:

• # 1 Rath Café / Deutsches Haus from 1908 to 1911 and 1951/1956 (See here)
• No. 9 House For Jonas of 1600 and 1963 (See here)
• No. 11 Raths -Apotheke of 1893-1894 and 1959-1960 (see here)
• # 12 House of the City Savings Bank in 1755 and 1957 to 1958 ( See here).