Ancienne pharmacie du Cerf, Historical pharmacy building in central Strasbourg, France

The Ancienne pharmacie du Cerf is a timber-framed building located at the corner of rue Mercière and Place de la Cathédrale in central Strasbourg. This multi-story structure displays classic Alsatian architectural features with its wooden framework and stone elements.

An apothecary is first recorded on this corner in 1268, and the shop was rebuilt after a fire that same year. The Philippi family ran it until 1398; later it served as a dwelling where Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini lodged in 1432. After a 1466 fire it was rebuilt by 1469, and around 1497 the corner house and the rue Mercière house were joined into one building. Albrecht Wessner's 1598 works gave it its final form.

The shop bore the name Zu guldinen Hirsch ("At the Golden Deer") by 1635, and around 1730 the sign became Hirschenapothek, "Pharmacie du Cerf". The deer thus names the pharmacy, not the building's owners. Apothecaries worked from the corner shop on and off from 1268, and permanently after 1598.

The building stands at the corner of rue Mercière and Place de la Cathédrale, a few steps from the cathedral facade, so it is passed on foot by most visitors to the square. The ground floor keeps large arched openings and shop windows; the timber-framed upper storeys are best seen from across the street. It is a classified monument, not an information point.

A scholar who would later become Pope Pius II stayed in this building in 1432. His presence connects this Strasbourg location to European intellectual history of the Renaissance era.