Find a pharmacy in Bremerhaven
Bremerhaven's pharmacy network covers a compact seaport city of roughly 113,000 residents, with PillsCard listing 19 verified Apotheken serving the dockworker communities of Lehe and Geestemünde, the city-centre catchment around Bürgermeister-Smidt-Straße, and the residential pockets of Leherheide and Wulsdorf. The city's demographic mix — an ageing population, a sizeable Turkish and Eastern European community tied to port labour, and seasonal cruise-ship and offshore-wind workers passing through the Columbus terminals — shapes daily demand for repeat prescriptions, travel vaccinations, and multilingual counselling. Unlike inland Hansestädte, Bremerhaven also sees a steady trickle of merchant-marine crews needing one-off scripts, which several waterfront pharmacies handle alongside standard GKV walk-ins from the surrounding Wesermünde district.
The market is fragmented in the typical German pattern — owner-operated Apotheken rather than chains, since DocMorris-style equity ownership remains restricted under the ApoG. Independents such as Apotheke Am Flötenkiel and Apotheke am Blink anchor the northern Leherheide and Geestemünde neighbourhoods, while the city centre and harbour fringes are served by long-standing names including Stern-Apotheke, Lloyd-Apotheke (a nod to the Norddeutscher Lloyd shipping heritage) and the franchise-aligned wir leben Apotheke under the Sanacorp umbrella. The Sander Apotheken group operates several branches across Mitte and Lehe, giving it the closest thing to a local mini-chain. Pinguin Apotheke and Apotheke am Neumarkt round out the central cluster, most within walking distance of Klinikum Bremerhaven-Reinkenheide referrals.
Pricing & coverage
Statutory (GKV) patients pay the standard prescription co-payment of €–€ per item, capped at of gross annual income ( for chronic conditions). Common over-the-counter items sit at predictable EUR ranges: ibuprofen mg ( tablets) around €–€, a standard influenza vaccination €–€ when self-paid, and a basic travel-health consultation with malaria prophylaxis dispensing €–€ depending on the regimen. PKV (private) policies usually reimburse the full Apothekenverkaufspreis set under the AMPreisV. Pricing and reimbursement rules are overseen federally by