Hettiswil Monastery

Hettiswil bills in the State Archives of the Canton of Bern

The Hettiswil Monastery is a former Cluniac priory in the municipality of Krauchthal , Canton of Bern , Switzerland .

history

According to sources, the Cluniac priory in the diocese of Constance , order province of Alemannia et Lothoringia was founded in 1107 and was consecrated to the Holy Cross . It was founded by priest Heinrich, his siblings and other donors. The prior only partially resided in Hettiswil and from 1293 also headed the Cluniac priory in Leuzigen (with Bargenbrück). To the Kastvogtei went to the family von Erlach , who in 1425 were also the governors of the Cluniac priory of Rüeggisberg. The priory was abolished in 1528, the goods were withheld from the castvogt Diebold von Erlach and instead converted into a shop. Various interest income was added to the Mushafen in Bern in 1531 . The priory and church were largely broken down with the secularization. The former rule of the monastery was now administered by a Bernese conductor , who also served as landlord in the conduct with courtroom. For a time the authorities forbade the inn. According to a prohibition from the time of the conductor Gabriel Zehender, parts of the monastery buildings still existed at that time: the pindten giving was struck down before the closter . In the 18th century, the conductors were several times former officers in foreign service, childless members of bourgeois families in Bern, mostly from the patriciate . In contrast to the provincial bailiffs, who provided their bailiffs for six years, the conductors in Hettiswil mostly stayed at their posts until their death.

The priory received an Ave Maria bell from the city of Solothurn in 1495 . After the abolition of the monastery, the bell in Bern served as the market bell . Later it found its way back to Hettiswil and was first attached to the branch of a linden tree. In 1830 today's turret ("Lindenzytli", originally a fire station) was built, which has since housed the bell. The bell was replaced by a facsimile cast in 1991.

In 2004, during a rescue excavation, the remains of the transept and the crossing of a three-aisled Romanesque basilica were found. The location was no longer known in the village until then.

List of priors and conductors

Peter, mentioned 1297 to 1300/01 Gerhard von Montigny, mentioned 1324 to 1341 Johannes von Chavornay, mentioned 1343 to 1382 Peter von Balm , mentioned 1389 to 1418 Hans, mentioned before 1433 Anton von Echangnens, mentioned 1433/34 Johannes Gross, mentioned 1450 to 1477 Johannes Küng, mentioned 1477 to 1516 Rudolf Witzig, mentioned between 1516 and 1527 Stephan Märki, mentioned 1527 to 1529 From 1529 secular conductor Jakob Wyss († 1546), 1529 Jakob Hetzel , 1532 Peter Ziegler, 1536 Paul Späting , 1558 Niklaus Lienhard, 1570 Bendicht Othi, 1571 Durs Ludmann, mentioned 1572/78

Konrad Glöri, 1588 Jakob Schaffhuser, mentioned 1602/11 Peter Buri, 1616 Ludwig Peasant King, 1625 Simon Hermann, 1630 David Dingnauer, 1633 Abraham in the Hag, 1645 Gabriel Zehender (1615–1681), 1671 Hans Anton Güder (1630–1688), 1687 to 1688 Marquard Zehender (1652-1706), 1688 Hans Rudolf Koch (1661–1741), 1709 Abraham Tillier († 1750), 1741 Franz Ludwig Müller (1702–1759), 1750 Niklaus Sinner (1706–1784), 1759 Johann Rudolf Steiger, 1784 Johann Rudolf Fischer (1733–1794), 1788 Georg Langhans (1752–1839), 1795

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Post-Reformation:

• Bern State Archives, conductors' invoices 1630 to 1802

literature

• Kathrin Utz Tremp : Hettiswil (monastery). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Helvetia Sacra , Vol. III / 2, pp. 339-352.
• Daniel Gutscher: Krauchthal BE, Hettiswil, old oils . In: JbSGUF, No. 88, 2005, p. 382f. on-line
• Max Schweingruber: The Lindenzeit in Hettiswil , Burgdorf 1992. PDF (6.8 MB)
• Jakob Sterchi: Hettiswil and the former Clüniazenser priory there , In: Blätter für Bernische Geschichte, Kunst und Altertumskunde 10 (1914), pp. 85–115. on-line

Web links

Commons : Hettiswil Monastery  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sterchi BBl 1914, p. 114.
2. ↑ Press release by the Canton of Bern.
3. ↑ Schweingruber 1991, p. 16.
4. ↑ Floor plan see: JbSGUF 88 (2005), p. 383 online
5. ↑ Wyss (patrician family, with the pistons)
6. ↑ Captain in the Vaudois procession 1536, Governor of Gex.
7. ↑ Landlord zu Schmieden , married to Susanna Hardmeyer.
8. ↑ Confectioner, m. with Elisabeth Deubelbeiss.
9. ↑ Childless, no further office.
10. ↑ Müller with the arrow in the coat of arms.
11. ^ An officer in the Dutch service, unmarried.

Coordinates: 47 ° 1 '56.6 "  N , 7 ° 33' 16.4"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and eight thousand eight hundred eleven  /  209045