Armand Baeriswyl

Armand Baeriswyl (* 1962 in Biel ) is a Swiss medieval archaeologist and historian . He works for the Archaeological Service of the Canton of Bern and teaches as a private lecturer at the University of Vienna .

biography

Baeriswyl studied Medieval History , Archeology of the Middle Ages and Art History at the University of Zurich , with Hans Conrad Peyer , Roger Sablonier and Hans Rudolf Sennhauser , among others . In 2001 he was awarded the doctoral thesis “City, suburbs and urban expansion in the Middle Ages. Archaeological and historical studies on the growth of the three Zähringer towns of Burgdorf, Bern and Freiburg im Breisgau ”.

During his studies, Baeriswyl already worked on archaeological investigations and building research in the cantons of Bern, Graubünden and Thurgau. The most important stations were the participation in the investigations in the Benedictine convent St. Johann and the management of the archaeological research of the Stadtburg Unterhof in Diessenhofen. In 1994 he became a research assistant at the Archaeological Service of the Canton of Bern. There he worked in the Middle Ages department. In 2007 he took over the management of the newly created area of “City, Church, Castle and Church Archeology and Building Research”. Intensive urban archaeological research, based on excavations in Bern , Biel , Burgdorf , Thun and Unterseen , but also investigations of castles and palaces, including the Höchhus of Steffisburg and the Untere Mannenberg in Zweisimmen, took place during these years . His archaeological and historical research on future members of the Teutonic Order in Köniz ( Köniz Castle ) and Sumiswald ( Spittel Castle ) are also important. Since 2011 he has headed the “Archaeological Investigations” department and is therefore responsible for all archaeological field operations in the Canton of Bern.

Since 2002 Baeriswyl has worked as a lecturer in archeology of the Middle Ages at the Universities of Basel, Bern and Heidelberg and at the Bern University of Applied Sciences for Architecture, Wood and Construction in Burgdorf. In 2010 he was visiting professor at the Institute for Prehistory and Protohistory at the University of Vienna . In 2011, Baeriswyl completed his habilitation in Archeology of the Middle Ages and Modern Times at the University of Vienna under Claudia Theune-Vogt with the habilitation thesis "City and rule in the Middle Ages as reflected in archeology, building research and history - urban planning and structural interactions".

Baeriswyl is President of the Swiss Working Group for Archeology in the Middle Ages and Modern Times (SAM); He is also a board member of the Wartburg Society for Research into Castles and Palaces , the Swiss Castle Association , the Historical Association of the Canton of Bern and the Swiss Working Group for Urban History . He serves on the advisory board of the scientific supervisory committee of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg.

Research priorities

Baeriswyl sees himself as a historian who works with material sources obtained in archaeological excavations and building research . His research focus is the material history of the premodern city, especially questions

on historical, architectural and urban development;
for the creation and development of the urban structural infrastructure ;;
on the use of space and the relationship between public and non-public space;
for the development of the city with public and private facilities and buildings;
to the mendicant monasteries in the urban fabric.

A basic question that preoccupies him both in his work and in the field of active and researching archeology is: Where and how does rulership manifest itself in your city in terms of urban planning and building? The term rule is meant comprehensively, on the one hand chronologically, from the landlord of older, early urban settlements to the city founders of the new cities of the Middle Ages to the late medieval or early modern city lords, on the other hand in terms of content, in addition to the city lord himself also his deputy, i.e. the mayors and Bailiffs, as well as the city councils. The formulation structural or urban manifestation is also to be understood comprehensively. This begins with the location of the city and continues with the urban planning (layout, alleys, squares, parcels) and includes a significant part of the urban infrastructure, such as city castles or residences, town halls, city fortifications, churches, monasteries, market, Water supply and disposal, commercial water systems, hospitals, port facilities and bridges. One focus of the research is on the so-called "founding cities" of the 12th to 14th centuries. It is about the alleged pair of opposites “founded” and “grown”, meanwhile in research supplemented by the term “planned”: How does the interplay between stately or sovereignly determined foundation or planning and individually determined growth work? Where is the rulers present and what are the regulations? And: where is it - despite the hypotheses of older historical research - not present? In short: what are the possibilities, what are the patterns? So far, Baeriswyl has mainly dealt with and studied these questions using examples from southern Germany and Switzerland, but always sees them as case studies that are intended to identify patterns that can help in the archaeological examination of any European cities from the Middle Ages and early modern times. Ultimately, his aim is to provide archaeological building blocks for a “comparative city history”.

In addition to the focus on exploring the city, Baeriswyl deals with other areas of medieval archeology, including

Upcoming religious orders of knights , especially the Teutonic Order .
Convents.
Carthusians .
Noble buildings in town and country, in the Middle Ages and in the early modern period.
Archeology and history.
Mediation and public relations in archeology.

Publications (selection)

Editing

together with Georges Descoeudres, Martina Stercken, Dölf Wild, Exploring the medieval city - archeology and history in dialogue (Swiss contributions to the cultural history and archeology of the Middle Ages 36), Basel 2009.

Monographs

The Unterhof in Diessenhofen, the archaeological and building analysis research of an urban ministerial seat in the Middle Ages (Archeology in Thurgau Vol. 3), Frauenfeld 1995 (together with Marina Junkes).
Burgdorf Kornhaus, A medieval row of houses in the Burgdorf Lower Town (series of publications by the Education Department of the Canton of Bern, published by the Archaeological Service), Bern 1995 (together with Daniel Gutscher).
City, suburbs and urban expansion in the Middle Ages. Archaeological and historical studies on the growth of the three Zähringer towns of Burgdorf, Bern and Freiburg im Breisgau (Swiss contributions to the cultural history and archeology of the Middle Ages 30), Basel 2003.

items

Hall building, palas and residential building in a city castle from the 13th and 14th centuries, in: Wartburg Society for Research into Castles and Palaces (Ed.), Schloss Tirol, Hall buildings and castles from the 12th century in Central Europe, Munich 1998, (Research on castles and palaces 4), pp. 231–240.
The archaeological rescue excavations on the Thorberg, in: Ulrich Zwahlen (Hrsg.), Heimatbuch Krauchthal Volume V, From the past and the present, Krauchthal 1999, pp. 308–321.
Where is the altitude zero? - About the alleged boundary between building research and soil archeology, in: Dirk Schumann (Ed.), Building research and archeology, city and settlement development in the mirror of building structures, Berlin 2000, pp. 21–31.
The German Order Coming in Köniz near Bern. With some reflections on the form and function of convent systems in the German Reich, in: Wartburg Society for Research into Castles and Palaces (Ed.), Burgen Kirchenlicher Bauherren, Munich 2001 (Research on Castles and Palaces 6), pp. 193-204.
The 'city founder' and the emergence of the medieval city - archaeological findings and historical considerations using the example of some cities in the southwest of the, in: Helmig, Guido / Barbara Scholkmann / Matthias Untermann (eds.), Center - Region - Periphery. Medieval Europe Basel 2002, Vol. 2 (3rd International Congress of Archeology in the Middle Ages and Modern Times. Preprinted Papers), Hertingen 2002, 23–38.
Structure and Topography of the Ruling Power (Conference report: Center - Région - Periphery. Medieval Europe Basel 2002. 3rd International Congress of Archeology in the Middle Ages and Modern Times), in: Zeitschrift für Archäologie des Mittelalters, 31, (2003), 243 f . (together with Gabriele Isenberg).
The planned city expansion. Findings and hypotheses based on a few examples, in: The measured city. Medieval town planning between myth and evidence (bulletin of the German Society for Archeology of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age 15 2004), 61–66.
Innovation and mobility in the mirror of material culture. Archaeological finds and historical questions, in: Rainer Christoph Schwinges, Christian Hesse, Peter Moraw (eds.), Europe in the late Middle Ages. Politics - Society - Culture (historical magazine, supplement 40), Munich 2006, 511–537.
Bern - Brüder, in: Kuratorium der Helvetia Sacra (ed.), Helvetia Sacra Dept. IV, The Orders with Augustinian Rule. Vol. 7: The Servites, the Pauline Hermits, the Lazarite and Lazarite Sisters, the Templars, the Johanniter and the Teutonic Order in Switzerland. Part 2, Basel 2006, 621–649.
Köniz, in: Kuratorium der Helvetia Sacra (ed.), Helvetia Sacra Dept. IV, The Orders with Augustinian Rule. Vol. 7: The Servites, the Pauline Hermits, the Lazarite and Lazarite Sisters, the Templars, the Johanniter and the Teutonic Order in Switzerland. Part 2, Basel 2006, 754–780.
Sumiswald, in: Kuratorium der Helvetia Sacra (ed.), Helvetia Sacra Dept. IV, The Orders with Augustinian Rule. Vol. 7: The Servites, the Pauline Hermits, the Lazarite and Lazarite Sisters, the Templars, the Johanniter and the Teutonic Order in Switzerland. Part 2, Basel 2006, 781–803.
Medieval founding city and urban planning using the example of the "Zähringer cities" of Bern and Burgdorf, in: Bruno Fritzsche / Hans-Jörg Gilomen / Martina Stercken (eds.), Urban planning - planning cities, Zurich 2006, 51–67.
The topography of the urban market in the Middle Ages and the early modern period using the example of southern German and Swiss cities, in: Markt und Handwerk. 9th meeting of the working group for archaeological research into medieval crafts. Journal for Archeology of the Middle Ages, 34 (2006), 231–248.
On the relationship between town and castle in the southwest of the Old Kingdom. Considerations and theses based on examples from Switzerland, in: Wartburg Society for Research into Castles and Palaces (Ed.), Burg und Stadt, Munich 2008 (Research on Castles and Palaces 11), pp. 21–36.
Sodbrunnen - Stadtbach - Commercial Canal. Water supply and disposal in the city of the Middle Ages and the early modern times using the example of Bern, in: Dorothee Rippmann , Wolfgang Schmid and Katharina Simon-Murscheid (eds.), ... for general use instead of - fountains in European urban history, Trier 2008, 55-68.
Living spaces and structural change, in: Barbara Scholkmann, Sören Frommer, Christina Vossler, Markus Wolf (eds.), Between tradition and change. Archeology of the 15th and 16th centuries (Tübingen research on historical archeology 3), Büchenbach 2009, 357–370; Final comment on the lectures in Section 5 (Habitats and Structural Change), 483–486.
Different sources, one goal. The city of Bern's interdisciplinary database of houses as an example of closer collaboration between archeology and history, in: Armand Baeriswyl, Georges Descoeudres, Martina Stercken, Dölf Wild, Exploring the medieval city - archeology and history in dialogue (Swiss contributions to cultural history and archeology des Mittelalters 36), Basel 2009, 11–20 (together with Roland Gerber).
The "infirmary" of Burgdorf in Switzerland - a late Gothic leprosarium and its building history, in: Regional Council Stuttgart - State Office for Monument Preservation / Regional Group Baden-Württemberg Working Group for House Research (Ed.), Urban hospital buildings from the perspective of house research. Conference in Ravensburg on April 30, 2004 (Southwest German contributions to historical building research 8), Breisach 2009, 209–218.
Monasteries on the outskirts? Some thoughts on the location of mendicant monasteries in the medieval city, in: Anne-Marie Hecker / Susanne Röhl (eds.), Monastic Life in Urban Context (MittelalterStudien 24), Munich 2010, 25–40.
Biel - a city on the lake? Some reflections on the relationship between city and lake in the Middle Ages, in: Siedlungsforschung 27 (2009), 185–198.
Wooden houses, tannery pits and commercial sewers. The archaeological excavations on the former Gassmann area in Biel. Bieler Jahrbuch - Annales biennoises 2009, 85–93 (together with Roger Lüscher).
Notes on the subject of archeology and the public or: Is archeology culture? In: Find pieces - search for traces. Festschrift Georges Descoeudres (Zurich Studies in the History of Art 17/18), 633–639
On the green meadow or in the thick oak forest? The beginnings of the Zähringer cities of Freiburg im Breisgau and Bern in the light of archaeological findings, in: Ferdinand Opll (Ed.), City Foundation and City Development. Contributions from archeology and urban history research (Contributions to the history of the cities of Central Europe 22), Linz 2011, 1–19.
The "founded" cities - founding and expanding cities in the cantons of Bern, Friborg and Solothurn, in: Swiss Castle Association / Archeology Switzerland / Swiss Working Group for Archeology in the Middle Ages and Modern Times (publisher), settlement findings and finds from the period between 800 and 1350. Files of the Colloquium on Medieval Archeology in Switzerland Frauenfeld, 28. – 29. October 2010, Basel 2011, 181–196.

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Armand Baeriswyl, City, Suburbs and City Expansion in the Middle Ages. Archaeological and historical studies on the growth of the three Zähringer towns of Burgdorf, Bern and Freiburg im Breisgau (Swiss contributions to the cultural history and archeology of the Middle Ages 30), Basel 2003. ISBN 3-908182-14-X .

↑ Armand Baeriswyl, Marina Junkes, Der Unterhof in Diessenhofen, the archaeological and structural analysis of an urban ministerial seat in the Middle Ages (Archeology in Thurgau 3), Frauenfeld 1995. ISBN 3-905405-02-4 .

↑ Armand Baeriswyl, Jürg Schweizer, Das Grosse Höchhus in Steffisburg - The archaeological investigation of a late Gothic patrician residence, in: Middle Ages - Journal of the Swiss Castle Association 2009/2, 33-41

^ Armand Baeriswyl, Daniel Kissling, The castles on the Mannenberg near Zweisimmen. The architectural archaeological investigation and restoration of the Untere Mannenberg 2008–2011. Middle Ages - Journal of the Swiss Castle Association, 2011/1, 1–14.

↑ Armand Baeriswyl, The 'City Founder' and the Development of the Medieval City - Archaeological Findings and Historical Considerations Using the Example of Some Cities in the Southwest of, in: Center - Region - Periphery. Medieval Europe Basel 2002, Vol. 2 (3rd International Congress of the Archeology of the Middle Ages and Modern Times. Preprinted Papers), Hertingen 2002, 23-38. - Armand Baeriswyl, Medieval founding town and urban planning using the example of the "Zähringerstädte" Bern and Burgdorf, in: Bruno Fritzsche / Hans-Jörg Gilomen / Martina Stercken (eds.), Urban Planning - Planning Cities, Zurich 2006, 51-67. - Armand Baeriswyl, The «founded» cities - founding and expanding cities in the cantons of Bern, Friborg and Solothurn, in: Settlement findings and find complexes from the period between 800 and 1350. Files from the colloquium on medieval archeology in Switzerland Frauenfeld, 28. – 29. October 2010, Basel 2011, 181-196

↑ Armand Baeriswyl, The topography of the urban market in the Middle Ages and the early modern period using the example of southern German and Swiss cities, in: Markt und Handwerk. 9th meeting of the working group for archaeological research into medieval crafts. Journal of Archeology of the Middle Ages, 34 2006, 231-248. - Armand Baeriswyl, On the relationship between town and castle in the southwest of the Old Kingdom. Considerations and theses based on examples from Switzerland, in: Wartburg Society for Research into Castles and Palaces (Ed.), Burg und Stadt, Munich 2008 (Research on Castles and Palaces 11), 21-36. - Armand Baeriswyl, Sodbrunnen - Stadtbach - Commercial Canal. Water supply and disposal in the city of the Middle Ages and the early modern times using the example of Bern, in: Dorothee Rippmann, Wolfgang Schmid and Katharina Simon-Murscheid (eds.), ... for general use instead of - fountains in European urban history, Trier 2008, 55-68. - Armand Baeriswyl, The "Infirmary" of Burgdorf in Switzerland - a late Gothic leprosy and its building history, in: Urban hospital buildings from the perspective of house research. Conference in Ravensburg on April 30, 2004 (Southwest German contributions to historical building research 8), Breisach 2009, 209-218.

↑ Armand Baeriswyl, Monasteries on the Outskirts? Some thoughts on the location of mendicant monasteries in the medieval city, in: Anne-Marie Hecker / Susanne Röhl (eds.), Monastic Life in Urban Context (MittelalterStudien 24), Munich 2010, 25–40.

↑ Armand Baeriswyl, Köniz, in: Helvetia Sacra Abt. IV, The Order with Augustinian Rule. Vol. 7: The Servites, the Pauline Hermits, the Lazarite and Lazarite Sisters, the Templars, the Johanniter and the Teutonic Order in Switzerland. Part 2, Basel 2006, 754-780. - Armand Baeriswyl, The Teutonic Order Coming in Köniz near Bern. With some reflections on the form and function of convent complexes in the German Reich, in: Wartburg Society for Research into Castles and Palaces (ed.), Burgen ecclesiastical builders, Munich 2001 (Research on Castles and Palaces 6), 193-204. - Armand Baeriswyl, Sumiswald, in: Helvetia Sacra Abt. IV, The Orders with Augustinian Rule. Vol. 7: The Servites, the Pauline Hermits, the Lazarite and Lazarite Sisters, the Templars, the Johanniter and the Teutonic Order in Switzerland. Part 2, Basel 2006, 781-803.

personal data
SURNAME	Baeriswyl, Armand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss medieval archeologist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH	1962
PLACE OF BIRTH	Biel

[1] Armand Baeriswyl, City, Suburbs and City Expansion in the Middle Ages. Archaeological and historical studies on the growth of the three Zähringer towns of Burgdorf, Bern and Freiburg im Breisgau (Swiss contributions to the cultural history and archeology of the Middle Ages 30), Basel 2003. ISBN 3-908182-14-X .