Franz Rudolf Frisching

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Franz Rudolf Frisching in the uniform of a colonel of the Bernese hunters with his Bernese hound , painted by Jean Preudhomme (1785).

Franz Rudolf Frisching (* 1733 in Bern ; † 1807 in Hofstetten ) was a Bernese officer, magistrate and industrialist from the Frisching patrician family .

Life

Franz Rudolf Frisching was the son of Vinzenz Frisching (1689–1764), Lord of Schlosswil , Schultheiss of Thun and captain in the Piedmontese service, and Juliana Rosina von Erlach . Frisching was a colonel in the Swiss Guard in Holland . From 1764 he was a member of the Bernese Grand Council . In 1770 he became bailiff in the Maggia valley , in 1780 bailiff in St. Johannsen and in 1793 Kastlan in Wimmis . Frisching was a lieutenant colonel in the Jägerkorps of Bern .

Frisching was co-founder and main owner of the Faience Manufactory Frisching in Lorraine in Bern.

Between 1753 and 1754, Franz Rudolf Frisching married Anne Madeleine van Back (born approx. 1738), who came from Holland, daughter of Johannes van Back, governor of Orange , and Anna Henriette van Schinnen. From this marriage came the son Johann Rudolf and the daughter Anna Adrienne Margarethe (1755-1800). Anne Madeleine Frisching died on August 4, 1763 in childbed in the Église royale et Collégiale Saint-Hippolyte de Poligny . The funeral took place on August 8, 1763 in the church of Les Verrières . In his second marriage, Franz Rudolf Frisching was married to Armanda Gross (1743–1829), daughter of Karl Ludwig Gross and Armanda Wurstemberger, from September 7, 1764. The marriage was later divorced. This second marriage came from the daughters Maria Emilie (January 17 to February 27, 1767) and the daughter Julia Armanda (1768–1807).

From 1750 to 1777 the Frisching family owned the Lorraine estate in Bern. After the French invasion in 1798, Franz Rudolf Frisching did not have to pay any war contribution.

literature

  • Barbara Braun-Bucher: Fresh [from]. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  • Walter A. Staehelin: Ceramic research from Bernese archives in: Keramikfreunde der Schweiz, Mitteilungsblatt No. 81 (1970), pp. 3-34.
  • Robert L. Wyss: tiled stoves . in: Bern and the fine arts , in: Illustrierte Berner Enzyklopädie, Vol. IV. Art and Culture in the Canton of Bern, Bern 1987, pp. 107-109.
  • Historisches Museum Bern: crockery for town and country - Bern pottery since the 16th century . Bern 2007, 2. 22–25. ISBN 978-3-9523573-8-5 (BHM)
  • André Holenstein: Bern's golden age. The 18th century rediscovered , Bern 2008, p. 112.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Burgerbibliothek Bern, FA von Tscharner A 126 (16). Certificate of appointment for Franz Rudolf Frisching de Wyl, admission to the Swiss Guard with the rank of lieutenant. Dated: July 7th 1748 , drawn: Prince d'Orange & Nassau, Ter Ordonnantie van Zyne Hoogheid
  2. ↑ Bern State Archives, HBLS Vol. 3, p. 341
  3. ↑ Writing calendar including the regimental booklet containing the secular and spiritual constitution of the city and republic of Bern for the year 1775
  4. ↑ Historisches Museum Bern: Crockery for town and country - Bern pottery since the 16th century , Bern 2007, p. 22
  5. ↑ Bern Burger Library, Mss.hh XXXIV.154 (5). Handwritten letter, drawn: Marmier, Chanoine de l'Eglise royale et Collégiale Saint-Hippolyte, Poligny
  6. ↑ Burgerbibliothek Bern, Mss.hh XXXIV.154 (5)
  7. ^ Adolf Hebeisen: The Lorraine in Bern . Verlag Paul Haupt, Bern 1952, p. 13
  8. ↑ Erwin Schwarz: The Bernese war contribution from 1798 , Bern 1912 (table in appendix)
personal data
SURNAME Frisching, Franz Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss officer, magistrate and industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH 1733
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH 1807
Place of death Hofstetten