Cronica de Berno

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The Cronica de Berno (also Berner Chronik ) is the oldest historiographical record of the city of Bern . As a late medieval year book , this city chronicle is one of the year books in the area of ​​the city and republic of Bern , which in the actual front part contains a book of hours with the assignments, names and dates of death. It consists of 50 sheets in total. The first 30 are loose notes that record events from 1191 to 1340 in Latin and were written by four different hands. This is followed by 20 interpolations spanning the years 1218 to 1405. This part of the work comes from Ulrich Pfund , brother of the Teutonic Order for the Leutkirche St. Vinzenzen, the predecessor of today's Bern Minster , which must have collected and completed it. Other hands completed this work later, because Pfunds lifetime only allowed one work until 1325. Pound can be found in Mulhouse and Bern; exact life dates are not known.

The chronicle itself was made relatively late in comparison with other cities in Switzerland, which is justified by the fact that there was “no monastery with literary activity” in the vicinity of the city that would have promoted historiography. But because of its political importance, the Chronicle of Bern can be understood as a “chronicle of Swiss history”. The quotations themselves are “short and dry”, as Feller and Bonjour state. A little more volume can be found for the siege of the city in 1288, the battle of Dornbühl in 1298 and the battle of Laupen in 1339. This document is important above all because of the city's founding date in 1191, which the city itself only noted in 1208 has been.

Konrad Justinger came to Bern as a town clerk at a time when interest in the origin and the manifestation of lasting values ​​could no longer be satisfied by representative buildings alone. During this time the foundation stones for the town hall and the cathedral were laid. These buildings and well-preserved fountains and monuments from that time also testify to the understanding of art and the craftsmanship that existed in the city. This awakened the desire to know how to preserve one's own history for future generations. «On the evening of St. Vincent's in 1420, the small and grand councils, chaired by the mayor Rudolf Hofmeister, decided to have the past and great affairs of the city collated, as they are not really dealt with in writing ›. They commissioned the ‹Cunrat Justinger of the same stat Berne wilent statschreiber› »with this work.

This city chronicle by Justinger was based on documents from “the city of Kisten” and the Cronica de Berno . For events outside of Bern, he used copies of the Strasbourg, Zurich, Basel and Constance chronicles.

criticism

Chronology critics like Christoph Pfister deny the existence of this record and revile it as a forgery. Ulrich Pfund is fictitious and the Chronicle tries to improve its own reputation, among other things, because false information about the introduction of the Gregorian calendar is made.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Richard Feller , Edgar Bonjour : Historiography of Switzerland . 2nd Edition. Volume 1. Helbing & Lichtenhahn, Basel / Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-7190-0722-7 .
  2. ↑ Christoph Pfister: The origins of Bern: A historical local history of Bern and the Bern region. Volume 3, Historical-Philological Works. BoD 2003, ISBN 978-3842386150 , pages 55-56.