{"id":3965,"date":"2026-04-28T10:06:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T08:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-siegen.de\/fit-in-siegen\/2026\/04\/28\/medicines-and-pharmacies\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T10:51:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T08:51:36","slug":"medicines-and-pharmacies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-siegen.de\/fit-in-siegen\/de\/2026\/04\/28\/medicines-and-pharmacies\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicines and Pharmacies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0In Germany, some medicines require a prescription, while others can be purchased freely.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prescription medicines (<em>verschreibungspflichtige Medikamente<\/em>) are\u00a0<strong>only provided to patients with a prescription from their doctor.<\/strong>\u00a0They can be acquired at public pharmacies (<em>Apotheken<\/em>) upon presentation of the physical prescription slip. Please note that\u00a0<strong>Germany\u2019s pharmacy laws are strict<\/strong>, meaning a prescription may be required for medicines that are sold over the counter in other countries. Medicine is\u00a0<strong>not available in supermarkets.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prescription medicines typically include a co-pay of between 5 to 10 euros, or roughly ten percent of their price. If your medication costs less than 5 euros, you pay for it yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Pharmacies are\u00a0<strong>typically open from Monday to Friday<\/strong>, although some also open on Saturday mornings as well. On Sundays, pharmacies are usually closed in Germany.\u00a0<strong>The emergency pharmacy service (<em>Apothekennotdienst<\/em>) is open around the clock.\u00a0<\/strong>In Siegen you find the actual emergency pharmacy on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aponet.de\/apotheke\/notdienstsuche\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this homepage.\u00a0<\/a>There is also a list on every pharmacy door.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about medicine in Germany in this video:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 525px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-3965-1\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uni-siegen.de\/strongertogether\/files\/2023\/07\/Video_How_to_get_your_medicine.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uni-siegen.de\/strongertogether\/files\/2023\/07\/Video_How_to_get_your_medicine.mp4\">http:\/\/blogs.uni-siegen.de\/strongertogether\/files\/2023\/07\/Video_How_to_get_your_medicine.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-video\">\n<div id=\"mep_0\" class=\"mejs-container mejs-container-keyboard-inactive wp-video-shortcode mejs-video\" role=\"application\" aria-label=\"Video-Player\">\n<div class=\"mejs-inner\">\n<div class=\"mejs-mediaelement\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0In Germany, some medicines require a prescription, while others can be purchased freely. Prescription medicines (verschreibungspflichtige Medikamente) are\u00a0only provided to patients with a prescription from their doctor.\u00a0They can be acquired at public pharmacies (Apotheken) upon presentation of the physical prescription slip. Please note that\u00a0Germany\u2019s pharmacy laws are strict, meaning a prescription may be required for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uni-siegen.de\/fit-in-siegen\/de\/2026\/04\/28\/medicines-and-pharmacies\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201eMedicines and Pharmacies\u201c <\/span>weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":659,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unkategorisiert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-siegen.de\/fit-in-siegen\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-siegen.de\/fit-in-siegen\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-siegen.de\/fit-in-siegen\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-siegen.de\/fit-in-siegen\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/659"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-siegen.de\/fit-in-siegen\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-siegen.de\/fit-in-siegen\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3966,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-siegen.de\/fit-in-siegen\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965\/revisions\/3966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-siegen.de\/fit-in-siegen\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-siegen.de\/fit-in-siegen\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-siegen.de\/fit-in-siegen\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}