Burgers points

Binding of an original (number 12) of the Burgerspunkte from 1784 in the Bern State Archives

The Burgerspunkte are a collection of laws of the City and Republic of Bern that began in 1613 and have been the rules of procedure of the Grand Council since 1702 .

In the oldest surviving copy, the burger points are referred to as “statutes and regulations, so that they are to be observed and maintained in the daily administration of the regiment in police, justice and economic matters [...]”. The introduction to the burger points contains the note: «Must be distinguished from the Fundamental Statutes in the Red Book that one swears to them annually; but otherwise to regard them as good burials and dectreta ». The burger points were subordinate to the Red Book, although individual statutes of the burger points were also counted among the fundamental laws. The burger points were revised in 1702 by a specially appointed commission chaired by the Welschseckelmeister Samuel Frisching . The new version, which was now designed as the actual rules of procedure of the Grand Council, was made out by the Chancellery in 300 handwritten copies for the members of the Grand Council. Numerous copies have been preserved in private archives and property.

Archives

• Burgerspunkte, inventory overview (1642–1784) in the catalog of the Bern State Archives .

literature

• Hermann Rennefahrt: The legal sources of the canton of Bern. The town charter of Bern V, Constitution and Administration of the State of Bern , Aarau 1959 (SSRQ BE I / 5). on-line
• Christoph von Steiger: Internal problems of the Bernese patriciate at the turn of the 18th century , Bern 1954.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Old or former Burgerspunkte (1655–1693), AI 84 in the catalog of the Bern State Archives .; von Steiger 1954, p. 117.
2. ↑ von Steiger 1954, p. 117.
3. ↑ von Steiger 1954, p. 117.
4. ↑ von Steiger 1954, p. 118.
5. ↑ von Steiger 1954, p. 118.