Society of Schildner zum Schneggen

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The house of the Schildner zum Schneggen Society in 2013
A snail carved from wood above the lintel of the entrance to the social building

The Schildner zum Schneggen Society is a lounge society founded around 1380 and still in existence today in the city ​​of Zurich in Switzerland .

history

The Company comprises members from the ruling and influential families, so dignitaries from guilds , Konstaffel and regiment . A sign of belonging was a sign. This could be inherited, sold or given away. Usually a shield came from father to son by inheritance. When buying, exchanging or donating shields, the members of the society decided whether to accept or reject new shields. The number of members has been limited to 65 since the Middle Ages.

The company house is on Schneggengasse in the old town of Zurich on the right of the Limmat. "It is called the Schneggen, and is an open drinking-room for the councilors and other respected people, disparaging the so-called goats or swordsmen, who had rallied in the war of the Confederates against Zurich to damage and destroy the enemy through brave attacks and raids to do. They also called themselves the Schildner zum Schneggen because they had divided up their coats of arms or symbols there, and their number rose to sixty. "

How great the political influence of the Schildner zum Schneggen Society originally was can be seen from the fact that up to 1798 more than half of all mayors of the city of Zurich were Schildner and in 1830 46 of the 65 members of the Society were still on the cantonal council .

The Schildner zum Schneggen Society was founded around 1380 as a private patrician society of the Zurich patriciate , making it the oldest society in Zurich. The social building on Limmatquai 64/66, newly built in 1866, has the following building history. The experienced Leonhard Zeugheer (1812–1866) was commissioned as the architect. He designed the building together with the young German architect Georg Lasius (1835–1928), who later held a professorship at the ETH . It is noteworthy that (Gustav) Adolph Brunner (1837–1909) from Riesbach was commissioned with the interior work. He has just returned to Zurich from his apprenticeship and traveling years in Paris. This ensured that the furnishings of the halls corresponded to the latest Parisian fashion. However, his collaboration with Émile Boeswillwald (1815-1896), who had been Inspector General of the Monuments historiques under Eugène Viollet-le-Duc since 1860, was likely to have been decisive . So Adolph Brunner designed the facility by reusing parts from the older society houses in Schneggen. Together with his brother Fritz, he ran the architecture office Adolph and Fritz Brunner in Zurich from 1865 to 1886, which after this first work was responsible for most of the buildings in the Bellerive district and the lower Bahnhofstrasse , giving Zurich a significant part of its present-day appearance. It is no coincidence that the Gesellschaftshaus zum Schnegg is in close proximity to Zurich's town hall . In this way, society wanted to demonstrate its influence on Zurich's politics.

Members (selection)

  • Hans Waldmann , Knight (1435–1489)
  • Hans Heinrich Lochmann (1538–1589), businessman
  • Johann Heinrich Waser (1600–1669), Mayor of Zurich
  • Hans Conrad Escher (vom Luchs) (1743–1814), Zurich politician, mayor and President of the Diet in 1814
  • Johann Jakob Meyer (1763–1819), officer and politician
  • Johann Jakob Pestalozzi (1785–1849), Professor of Church History and Catechetics at the University of Zurich
  • Franz Hagenbuch (1819–1888), politician (liberal), Councilor of the Canton of Zurich from 1856 to 1869
  • Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825–1898), poet
  • Emil Landolt (1895–1995), Mayor of Zurich
  • Alex Rübel (* 1955), Director of the Zurich Zoo from 1991 to 2020

swell

  • Hans Jakob Leu: [Lemma Böck ], in: Ders .: General Helvetian, Federal, or Swiss Lexicon. Zurich 1750, IV. Theil, Bi to Ca, pp. 168–169. Digitized

literature

Web links

Commons : Gesellschaft der Schildner zum Schneggen  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to Mayor Waser , the company dates back to the Old Zurich War and the year 1437. Joh. Henrici Waseri de vita sua. Tomus I. ZB Ms. A 132, p. 229 f. ( Memento from August 1, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ^ Emil Usteri: Schildner zum Schneggen. History of an old Zurich society . Zurich 1960, p. 45ff.
  3. ↑ Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung, No. 153 of August 1829. Quoted from Arthur Dürst, see literature.
  4. ↑ Rea Brändle: Splendor and Glory of the Schneggen. In: Tages-Anzeiger , July 18, 2002, p. 51.
  5. ↑ Helene Arnet: The search for the Zurich nobility. In: Tages-Anzeiger , December 27, 2013, p. 11.

Coordinates: 47 ° 22 '20.4 "  N , 8 ° 32' 34.9"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and eighty-three thousand four hundred and eleven  /  247420