Stadt-Apotheke


A pharmacy since 1735 and still operating as one today, this is where Bertha Benz – business partner and wife of automobile inventor Karl Benz – refuelled on the first-ever long-distance drive in 1888. The pharmacy provided her with Ligroin, making it the world's first filling station. Its small history museum only opens a handful of days a year.

Outside on the cobbled square there's a bronze-and-steel statue of Bertha driving her three-wheeled contraption.


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