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Rathaus Lemgo

Lemgo Town Hall

Lemgo's town hall was built in several stages between the 14th and 17th centuries. It stands on the town square, with Mittelstraße, the town's main east-west thoroughfare, running along its north side.

In 1612, the two-storey Ratsapotheke pharmacy was extended - a generously glazed bay window with a gable and a relief frieze on the parapet. It was designed by Georg Crossmann. The ornamentation and proportions are based on models by Hans Vredeman de Vries. The humanistic series shows ten famous doctors, philosophers and scientists from antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. They were created by Georg Crossmann's son Ernst. Based on printed originals, they show pharmaceutical knowledge from antiquity to around 1600. Dioscurides and Aristotle represent ancient herbal remedies, Galen and Hippocrates the doctrine of bodily fluids. Geber Arabs and Rhases represent Arabic medicine, the fictional Hermes Trismegistus and Raimundus Lullius speculative alchemy, Vesalius anatomy and Paracelsus chemical pharmacology.

Wolrad Ferber, a pharmacist from Lemgo and tenant of the Ratsapotheke, is credited with initiating the series. It is quite possible that he had himself portrayed as Dioscurides, the pioneer of pharmacology, on the north side of the pharmacy's oriel window.

"The medicine comes from the Lord and the apothecary prepares it."

Extract from the inscription in the apothecary's bay window

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Lemgo Town Hall, northern vestibule with granary on the upper floor
Lemgo Town Hall, portrait of Andreas Vesalius
Lemgo Town Hall, portrait of Geber Arabs
Lemgo Town Hall, Portrait of Rhases
Lemgo Town Hall, naturalist frieze on the apothecary bay window
Lemgo Town Hall, apothecary bay window
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