Family box
In Switzerland, especially in Bern , the family box is a family foundation under the old law .
In old Europe, documents, securities and assets were kept in a box or chest . The Bernese chronicler Konrad Justinger reports about letters, for example in the stat kisten ligent , and by that means the municipal archive , which originally consisted of a chest or box. Like a city, corporation, guild, or brotherhood, a family could have a box. From the 17th century in particular, the patrician families in Bern (and the Bernese cities) raised family boxes to support needy family members.
The following families in the area of the old city and republic of Bern owned (or own) a family box: von Büren , Effinger , von Erlach , Haller , Doxat, Fellenberg , von Gingins , von Graffenried , de la Harpe, Lerber, Lombach , May , Manuel , Mülinen , Mutach, Rothpletz, von Tavel, Stettler , Stürler and von Wattenwyl .
literature
- Albert Friedrich Haller, Ludwig Albrecht Haller, Bernhard Albrecht Haller: Statutes of the Haller family box in Bern , Bern 1875. online
- Alfred G. Roth: The Rotengrat in Eggiwyl. The Alp of the Manuel family , in: Berner Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Heimatkunde (1964), pp. 49–74. Digitized
- Max Stettler: The Bernese family boxes . In: Blätter für Bernische Geschichte, Kunst und Altertumskunde, Vol. 18 (1922), doi : 10.5169 / seals-185089
