Gerwern Chapel
The Gerwern Chapel is a former chapel of the Bern Gerber Society in Bern Minster, completed in 1476 .
A coat of arms of the former Niedergerbern Society, which exists in situ and dated 1471, is the earliest evidence of the Gerwern Chapel. Master Peter Schenkschücher, a member of the Middle Lions Society, founded a mass in 1472 on the altar dedicated to the Apostle Bartholomew . Bartholomew was the patron saint of tanners . According to the building inscription, the chapel was completed in 1476. A few months before the Bern disputation , the Bernese council decided to hand over the keys to the gerbern altar in October 1527 and to tick the altar , and masses could no longer be held at the expense of the beneficiary . Privately financed trade fairs were not affected.
The keystones on the vault have the emblem of the company to top-Gerwern , the society means lion and the company to low-tanners. A pair of Middle Lions discs from 1544 shows that the societies held on to the Gerwern Chapel even in the post-Reformation period. The Gerwern Chapel served as a baptistery from the 19th century. An information point with a souvenir shop has been set up in the Gerwern Chapel since 1999.
literature
- Berchtold Haller: Bern in his Rathsmanualen 1465–1565. Vol. 1. Ed. By the Historical Association of the Canton of Bern. Bern 1900.
- Manuel Kehrli: From the history of the Middle Lions Society , 2015 online (PDF, 563 KB)
- Luc Mojon : The art monuments of the canton of Bern . The Bern Minster. Ed .: Society for Swiss Art History (= Die Kunstdenkmäler der Schweiz . Volume 44 ). tape 4 . Birkhäuser Verlag , Basel 1960 (451 pp., Unibe.ch [PDF; 60.3 MB ; accessed on February 12, 2018] for free download).
- 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
- Moritz von Stürler : The Ober-Gerwern Society in Bern , Bern 1924.
- Urs Martin Zahnd : The Bernese Guild of the Middle Lions in the Late Middle Ages (= History of the Bernese Guild of the Middle Lions, Vol. 1), Bern 1984.
- Alfred Zesiger: The room at the red / guldinen Mittlen-Löwen. A look back at the history of the first five centuries. For the inauguration of the new guild room in the Falken on March 10, 1908, Bern 1908.
Individual evidence
- ^ Zahnd 1984, p. 54.
- ^ Mojon 1960, p. 30.
- ↑ Zesiger 1908, p. 176.
- ↑ Mojon 1960, pp. 30-31.
- ↑ Building inscription: an [n] od [omi] ni · m cccc lxxvi · iar / uff sant bartholome obent · / des zwelfbotten ward diss gewelb / volbracht ·; Mojon 1960, p. 31.
- ↑ Haller 1900, p. 183.
- ↑ Haller 1900, p. 183.
- ↑ von Stürler 1924, pp. 114–115.
- ^ Zahnd 1984, p. 54.
- ↑ Zesiger 1908, p. 57.
Web links
- Gerbern chapel (PDF, 1.98 MB) at bernermuensterstiftung.ch
Coordinates: 46 ° 56 '50.4 " N , 7 ° 27' 4" E ; CH1903: 600951 / 199 584