Sonnenplatz-Apotheke

The Sonnenplatz-Apotheke stands in a protected 1720 building at Sonnenplatz 4 in Tauberbischofsheim, a small town in the Main-Tauber district. The three-storey house with its stone doorway was first a wine merchant’s home before becoming an apothecary in 1810. After 2006 the shop became a museum run by the last owner, Henning Briegleb, until his death in 2019. The museum showed how a country apothecary worked for nearly two centuries. Exhibits included the 1810 Empire-style dispensary with dark cherrywood fittings, glass carboys for herbs, brass balances and pill rollers. Visitors saw the 1671 Apotheker oath sworn by Abel Nendwig and original containers for tinctures, powders and salves. A laboratory was added in the 1870s, and later owners even bottled mineral water on site. Inside the building visitors found the restored shop front, shelves of labelled jars and drawers of hand-written prescriptions. The attic held extra glassware from 1750–1810 and later medicines. After the museum closed, the collection moved to Dortmund, yet the Tauberbischofsheim rooms still show where generations of pharmacists mixed remedies and served the town.