Anna Seiler

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The Anna-Seiler-Brunnen in Marktgasse in Bern

Anna Seiler (first mentioned in 1348 in Bern ; † before August 14, 1360 there ) was from Bernburg and is considered the founder of the Inselspital .

Live and act

Mentioned for the first time around 1348, Anna Seiler, the daughter of the Bernese councilor Peter Ab Berg and widow of Heinrich Seiler, Spitalmeister zum Niedern Spital in Bern, is familiar with the needs and needs of the sick in late medieval Bern. A few years after the first plague epidemic in Bern, Seiler confirmed in her will of November 29, 1354 the foundation of a hospital for thirteen needy bedridden people. Innovative for the time was the provision in the will, according to which a patient should be released as soon as he regains his strength that he no longer needs hospital care. Because in the European Middle Ages a “hospital” mostly served as a poor house or accommodation for pilgrims.

The name Insel goes back to a move of the “Seilerinnen-Spital” to the former Dominican convent “St. Michales Island ”. In 1724 a new building was put into operation, which stood on the site of today's east wing of the Federal Palace. After it was moved to Kreuzmatte in 1881–84, one of the hospital buildings was named Anna-Seiler-Haus in the anniversary year of 1954.

The Temperantia fountain in Marktgasse has also been called the Anna Seiler fountain since the 19th century .

literature

  • RC Schwinges: Bern's courageous time , Bern 2003.
  • Kathrin Utz Tremp: Seiler, Anna. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  • Urs Boschung: an eternal hospital. The island between 1354 and 1954 . In: 650 years Inselspital, Bern 2004.
  • Hermann Rennefahrt, Erich Hintzsche: 1354–1954. Six hundred years Inselspital , Bern 1954.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Rennefahrt & Erich Hintzsche: 1354-1954: 600 years Inselspital . Verlag Hans Huber, Bern 1954, p. 7 .
  2. ↑ Dr. Urs Boschung: An Eternal Hospital: The Island between 1354 and 1954 . In: Inselspital (Ed.): 650 years Inselspital . Bern 2004, p. 15-16 .
  3. ↑ a b Insel Gruppe AG, 3010 Bern: Insel Gruppe AG. Retrieved October 30, 2017 .
  4. ↑ a b Kathrin Utz Tremp: Seiler, Anna. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 14, 2011 , accessed February 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Anna Seiler
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bernburger and founder of the Inselspital
DATE OF BIRTH 14th Century
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH before August 14, 1360
Place of death Bern