Moabiter Apotheke, Pharmacy in a listed building in Moabit, Berlin, Germany

The Moabiter Apotheke is a two-story building with a white facade located in the heart of Moabit, featuring traditional pharmaceutical retail spaces and historical furnishings from the 19th century. The structure combines a residence with commercial space, where medications are still prepared and dispensed in the original preserved rooms.

The pharmacist Wilhelm Karl Julius Barnewitz had the residential and commercial building erected in 1857 to plans by the master carpenter A. Thielbeck, in the Neu-Moabit colony that was growing around new industry. The pharmacy opened that same year; in the 1870 address book it was listed at Alt-Moabit 47. A side wing followed in 1885, and the pharmacy fittings were renewed in the form still seen today.

The pharmacy stands as one of only three surviving buildings from Moabit's early suburban period and preserves original pharmaceutical equipment and storage vessels from that time. The interior still displays the craftsmanship and material choices of that era, reflecting how people engaged with medicine and health care back then.

The pharmacy occupies the whole ground floor at Alt-Moabit 18, at the corner of Wilsnacker Straße beside the prison and opposite Calvinstraße. A short five-step stair with masonry handrails leads directly from the street into the shop. The upper floor has housed a fitness centre since June 2010.

The original fixtures included hand mortars, a tincture press and a materials store in the attic level. The press and parts of that store later passed to the pharmaceutical history collection of the Oberstufenzentrum Gesundheit, where they can be seen on request.