Usterbrand

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Usterbrand

The Usterbrand of 1832 is the best known case of a machine storm in Switzerland.

event

The Usterbrand took place in Oberuster on November 22nd, 1832 , the day of the commemoration of Ustertag . Small manufacturers ("Tüchler") and home workers from the Zurich Oberland destroyed the mechanical spinning and weaving mill Corrodi & Pfister in Oberuster. They did this out of existential fears. During the march on Ustertag they contributed to overthrow the conservative city ​​of Zurich government. Because the new liberal Grand Council had not complied with their demands published in the “Uster Memorial” for a ban on weaving machines, they destroyed the mechanical spinning and weaving mill in Oberuster.

judgment

75 people were arrested in Oberuster and the Zürcher Oberland. A year later, in 1833, the main culprits of the Usterbrand were sentenced to long chain sentences. As a result of the events, the Grand Council passed a law to protect property in 1835. However, the convicts were released after the Zurich coup in 1839.

literature

  • Arthur Bauhofer: The Uster fire and the law for the protection of property. In: Zürcher Taschenbuch. 1965 (1964), pp. 84-96.
  • Erwin Bucher: A socio-economic and a political chapter from regeneration. In: Swiss History Journal . Vol. 32 (1982), pp. 5-124, doi : 10.5169 / seals-80874 .
  • Albert Hauser : The Uster machine storm. In: Zürcher Taschenbuch. 1958 (1957), ISSN  1661-8173 , pp. 107-116.
  • Friedrich Ludwig Keller : The violent arson in Uster on November 22, 1832. Orell, Füßli and Compagnie, Zurich 1833 ( online ).
  • Joseph Lukas: The Uster machine storm in 1832. Verlag Genossenschaftsdruckerei, Arbon 1932.

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