Brotherhood of Our Lady (Bern)

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The Brotherhood of Our Lady was a lay brotherhood of the city ​​of Bern, which was dissolved in 1528 .

history

The brotherhood was relocated from the Heiliggeist hospital church to the Leutkirche ( Münster ) in 1473 . Here the chapel was initially built in the portal between the Diesbach and Brüggler chapels , but was sold to Jakob Lombach in 1500 . The brotherhood then moved their altar to the anteroom of St. Anton's chapel .

Recorded members are the canon Markus Aeschler, Verena von Bonstetten , Ludwig von Erlach , Herr zu Spiez, the councilor Georg Freiburger, Dorothea Graf, Clara Hetzel von Lindach , Hans Rudolf Hofmeister, the canon and cantor Martin Lädrach, Anna Mutter, councilor Peter Roggli, Ludwig Ross, old Venner Gilgian Schöni , a woman Studer, Catharina Subinger, Hans von Viffers and the glass painter Urs Werder .

literature

  • François de Capitani: Nobility, citizens and guilds in Bern in the 15th century. Stämpfli, Bern 1982.
  • R. Fetscherin: Urs Werder's will. A contribution to the history of Bern from the 15th century. In: Berner Taschenbuch 1854 , pp. 51–72 ( online ).
  • Berchtold Haller: Bern in his Rathsmanualen 1465–1565. Vol. 1. Ed. By the Historical Association of the Canton of Bern. Bern 1900.
  • Ariane Huber Hernández: For the living and for the dead. Wills of the late Middle Ages from the city of Bern , Bern 2019. doi : 10.7892 / boris.126898
  • Luc Mojon: The Bern Minster. Birkhäuser, Basel 1960.
  • Heinrich Türler : The altars and chapels of the minster in Bern before the Reformation. In: New Berner Taschenbuch on the year 1896. pp. 70–118, doi: 10.5169 / seals-126600 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Haller: Bern in his Rathsmanualen 1465–1565. 1900, p. 98.
  2. ^ Türler: The altars and chapels of the minster in Bern before the Reformation. 1896, p. 100.
  3. Bern State Archives, AI 836, fol. 75.
  4. Bern State Archives, AI 836, fol. 31.
  5. ^ Barbara Braun-Bucher: Ludwig von Erlach. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  6. Bern State Archives, AI 836.
  7. Bern State Archives, AI 836, fol. 32.
  8. Bern State Archives, AI 836, fol. 84.
  9. Bern State Archives, AI 835, fol. 194r.
  10. Bern State Archives, AI 835, fol. 73r.
  11. Bern State Archives, AI 836, fol. 103.
  12. Bern State Archives, AI 836, fol. 34.
  13. Bern State Archives, AI 836, fol. 69v.
  14. ^ De Capitani: Nobility, citizens and guilds in Bern in the 15th century. 1982, p. 121.
  15. Bern State Archives, AI 836, fol. 40v.
  16. Bern State Archives, AI 836, fol. 75.
  17. Bern State Archives, AI 836, fol. 43.
  18. Bern State Archives, AI 835, fol. 44r.
  19. Fetscherin: Urs Werder's Testament. 1854, pp. 54, 61, 70