Apteka pod Koroną (Kronenapotheke) in Cieplice

Cieplice Śląskie-Zdrój and the faintly appearing inscriptions on the building at 246 Wolności Street. What is the story behind them?

The building at ul. Wolności 246 in Cieplice / Photo by Marta Maćkowiak

I’ll gladly answer this question today. Before the war, the numbering was a bit different, and the address of the building was Warmbrunnerstrasse 105, Herischdorf (now part of Cieplice, post-war known as Malinniki). On the ground floor, there used to be Kronenapotheke, a pharmacy run by Konrad Tschanter.

Detail of the building at ul. Wolności 246/ Photo by Marta Maćkowiak

Konrad was born on March 1, 1859, in Głogów (Glogau), the son of Johann Karl Gottfried Tschanter and Marie Josephine Friederike Hoffmann, both of whom you can see in the pictures below.

On the right: Marie Josephine Friederike Hoffmann, on the left: Johann Karl Gottfried Tschanter, parents of Konrad Tschanter / Source: Rüdiger Tschanter, Ancestry

On March 17, 1903, he married Ella Martha Dänzer in Cieplice Śląskie-Zdrój (Bad Warmbrunn), a local resident and the daughter of the rentier Gustav Dänzer and Olga née Berck. The couple had a son, Hans Ulrich, born on the last day of the same year.

Konrad Tschanter continued to manage his pharmacy until his death on November 30, 1927, at the age of 68. The further fate of the business remains unknown because Hans Ulrich, Konrad and Ella’s only child, had already married his first wife, Angelika Heymann, in Breslau (Wrocław) by 1935.

Death certificate of Konrad Tschanter / Source: State Archives in Wrocław, Jelenia Góra branch

Konrad’s wife, Ella Martha, remained in Cieplice, specifically in Malinnik, where she lived until March 1, 1945. Upon learning about the approaching Red Army, she reportedly took a fatal dose of poison.

Sources:

private archive of Marty Maćkowiak
Archiwum Państwowe we Wrocławiu oddział w Jeleniej Górze (State Archives in Wrocław, Jelenia Góra branch)
Rüdiger Tschanter, Ancestry

Apteka pod Koroną (Kronenapotheke) in Cieplice

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