List of corporations in Basel

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The list of corporations in Basel lists the 29 public corporations of the city of Basel .

Guilds

The list of guilds follows a traditional ranking, which already appears in the oldest surviving council crew from 1357. The four gentlemen's guilds are mentioned first:

The fifteen craftsmen's guilds follow in order of priority:

The Academic Guild was founded as the 16th guild in the 19th century .

Honor societies

The three honorary societies in Kleinbasel were comparable in Kleinbasel to the guilds in Grossbasel when the two districts were not yet united. When they merged in 1392, the people of Kleinbasel were assigned to the guilds of Grossbasel, but kept their three honorary societies:

The honorary societies are still responsible for the Klein Basel Volksfest Vogel Gryff  .

Suburban societies

The suburban societies emerged in the Greater Basel in the 15th century, when the building of the outer Basel city wall resulted in a large population growth in the previously hardly populated suburbs outside the old wall. All five suburbs have a society:

Other corporations

In the formerly independent district of  Kleinhüningen , after the incorporation into the city was completed in 1908, the Kleinhüningen Citizens' Corporation was established . It is comparable to the three Kleinbasel honorary societies.

The fire rifle society, founded jointly by the guilds, has existed since 1466. It used to be used to guard the town and still maintains the rifle house at Schützenmatte .

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