Society to mean lions

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Society to mean lions
Coat of arms Mittellöwen.png
purpose Civil corporation
Chair: Daniel Hoffet (President)
Establishment date: around 1430/40
Number of members: 995
Seat : Gesellschaftshaus zum Mittellöwen
Amthausgasse 4–6
3011 Bern Switzerland
SwitzerlandSwitzerland 
Website: Mittelloewen.ch
The Mittellöwen Society House at Amthausgasse 6 in Bern (2020)
House sign of the Society of Middle Lions in Bern, by Johann Friedrich Funk (1732)

The Gesellschaft zu Mittellöwen is one of the 13 societies and guilds in the city of Bern and a public corporation guaranteed by the constitution of the Canton of Bern . It is a civil corporation within the meaning of Bernese municipal legislation and is subject to the supervision of the cantonal authorities. As a personal corporation, it does not have its own territory and is taxable. It includes all citizens of Bern who have the corporate law on Middle Lions.

history

The beginnings of the Berner Stubengesellschaft for the (middle) red lion are largely in the dark. According to the coat of arms (walking lion with tanner's knife ), Stube zum Roten Löwen was founded as a tannery with a handicraft character, in addition to the upper and lower tannery rooms that already existed at the time. A statement by the rebellious butcher venner and later mayor Peter Kistler is able to shed light on the reasons for the creation of a third tannery in Bern when he attacked the Bernese aristocratic families in the Grand Council in 1467. The aristocrats of Bern pushed into the artisan Venner societies in order to gain access to the important offices of the city: yes, even if a little room is thrown in, as well as being among the most popular of Gerweren, and all of them are younger. This was done ... to mine cytes ... as Kistler remarks. In the oldest directories there are no tanners, but aristocrats, notables , wholesalers, landlords and specialized professions such as clerks, pharmacists and artists. This suggests that the Stube zum Roten Löwen was founded as a patrician society around 1430/40. The earliest known documentary mention of the room at the red lion can be found in the will of the can maker Hans von Miltenberg from 1461.

Golden Falcon Inn

In 1722, Mittellöwen acquired the Golden Falcon Inn, today's society house, for 32,000 pounds from Pierre Isaac Bouquet from Rolle. Before that, Mittellöwen owned the house at Kramgasse 81 in Bern. The golden falcon was the most important inn in old Bern. Until the 19th century, large dinners and balls in honor of important personalities were held almost exclusively in the Hotel Falken. Emperor Joseph II , Johann Wolfgang Goethe , Giacomo Casanova and Empress Josephine should be mentioned from the long list of illustrious hotel guests . In 1908 the house was converted into a commercial building.

people

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Keystone with the coat of arms of the Middle Lions in the Gerwern Chapel of the Bern Minster (1476)

literature

  • Hans Bloesch : The Hotel zum Falken , in: Berner Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Heimatkunde, No. 19 (1957), pp. 145–156. doi : 10.5169 / seals-243420
  • François de Capitani: Nobility, citizens and guilds in Bern in the 15th century. Stämpfli, Bern 1982, ISBN 3-7272-0491-5 .
  • François de Capitani: The Berner Zunft zum Mittellöwen from the Reformation to the Revolution (= history of the Berner Zunft zum Mittellöwen. Vol. 2). Guild of Middle Lions, Bern 1985.
  • The Society House of the Middle Lions in the 20th Century (= History of the Bern Society of the Middle Lions. Vol. 5), Society of the Middle Lions, Bern 2015.
  • Manuel Kehrli: The guild of medium lions. In: The eating worm. No. 43, 2006, pp. 17-18.
  • Manuel Kehrli: From the history of the Middle Lions Society , 2015 online (PDF, 563 KB)
  • Rudolf Münger, Alfred Zesiger: The Mittelleuen booklet. Francke, Bern 1919.
  • Margrit Rageth-Fritz: The Golden Falcon. The most famous inn in old Bern. The Zunfthaus zu Mittellöwen , Bern 1987.
  • Harald Wanner: Legal historical considerations on the room statutes of the Society for Middle Lions in Bern from 1567. Polygraphische Gesellschaft, Laupen 1928.
  • Robert Ludwig Wyss: The gold and silversmith's work of the Berner Zunft zum Mittellöwen (= history of the Berner Zunft zu Mittellöwen. Vol. 4). Guild of Middle Lions, Bern 1985.
  • Robert Ludwig Wyss: craftsmanship in gold and silver. The silver dishes of the Bern guilds, societies and civil associations , Bern 1996.
  • Markus Wyttenbach: The Bern Guild of the Middle Lions in the 19th and 20th centuries (= history of the Bern Guild of the Middle Lions. Vol. 3). Guild of Middle Lions, Bern 1986.
  • 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). Guild of Middle Lions, Bern 1984.
  • Alfred Zesiger : The society to Mittelleuen. In: New Berner Taschenbuch on the year 1908 , pp. 199–299, doi: 10.5169 / seals-128331

Web links

Commons : Society of Middle Lions  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ State Chancellery of the Canton of Bern: Constitution of the Canton of Bern. SR 131.212. In: Systematic Legal Collection SR . Voters of the Canton of Bern, June 6, 1993, accessed on June 14, 2018 (Article 107 in Section 7 municipalities; as of March 11, 2015).
  2. ^ State Chancellery of the Canton of Bern: Municipal Law of the Canton of Bern. BSG 170.11. In: Systematic legal collection of the Canton of Bern BSG. Grand Council of the Canton of Bern , March 16, 1998, accessed on June 14, 2018 (Article 117 in Section 2.2 Civic Communities and Civil Corporations; Status on January 1, 2014).
  3. ↑ Bern State Archives, Book of Wills 1 AI 835
  4. ↑ Bern Burger Library, ZA Mittellöwen 583 (6) .

Coordinates: 46 ° 56 '50.9 "  N , 7 ° 26' 48.7"  E ; CH1903:  600626  /  199598