Alte Apotheke

A house in the higher Fischstraße (today Baderstraße), located on the other side of the market at the corner of Lappstraße is said to have been built about 1387 on 2 adjacent properties. The oldest part of the house, the fire wall to the house next door, have been preserved from this period. The present house was created about1444, making it the oldest standing timber-framed house in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania and one of the oldest in northern Germany at all.
The large entrance hall lounge with open fireplace and the room located upstairs and painted in neo-gothic style are noteworthy. Unfortunately, these premises are not accessible for the public.
Throughout its history, the house changed hands several times and has been rebuilt. Thus, the medieval stone gable at the Lappstraße was replaced in 1600 by an oak half-timbered gable. About 1850/1851 a further thorough renovation was carried out. In those days a plaster façade with round arches, the current hall and also the gothic windows to the courtyard were newly created.
The most famous chapter in the history of this house began around 1705 with the establishment of a pharmacy by Niclas Henning that shaped the house until the 60s of the 20th century. From the unpopular second pharmacist (the town council of that time had promised to the Ratsapotheke not to have a second pharmacy within the city walls) through the pharmacy of the garrison, and the Royal Pharmacy resulting in the "Old Pharmacy" 13 chemist managed the fortunes of this house.
After its nationalization it became the "Poliklinik-Apotheke" that was closed for the public in 1953 and as such it was incorporated to the university as the "Universitäts-Apotheke", in order to support their clinics. But the old building could no longer meet the demands of a modern university pharmacy. With the new building of the "Universitäts-Apotheke" in the Rathenaustraße the two and a half centuries-long tradition of Pharmacy in the Bader Street ended in 1961.
The premises continued to be used by the Hygiene Institute of the University. From 1966 to 1989 the Department of Hygiene was located here. It was followed by a period of vacancy that was not very conducive to the building until the redevelopment and restoration in 2002 by the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung. The building now belongs to the Foundation "Alfried Krupp Kolleg Greifswald. Today, on the corner of Lappstraße there is the University Shop.

(Source: Greifswald, House by House, Issue 3, 1996)