Rudolf Bruchli († 1493)

Rudolf Bruchli (born before 1430 , probably in Winterthur ; died 1493 ) was mayor of Winterthur .

biography

Rudolf Bruchli was born in 1430 and is probably the son of Rudolf Bruchli , who was also the official school in Winterthur four times from 1423 to 1428. From 1440 Bruchli was a member of the Kleinrat. Five years later he was elected to the official school of the city for the first time Agreement with the council did not have to pay tax for ten years, unless he should move away from Winterthur. This special regulation earned him some criticism, so that in 1453 he gave up citizenship and preferred to leave the city. It was only through the mediation of Eberhart von Nellenburg and Hans von Klingenberg that he returned to the city and was mayor of the city from 1454 and 1457 for three years without interruption.

In 1457 he is also mentioned as Unterlandvogt in Thurgau . Bruchli was close to the House of Habsburg and belonged to a closer circle of friends there; Laurenz von Sal , who died in 1405 in the Battle of Stoss , last held such a position in Winterthur . In 1460 he rode twice to Innsbruck to get money for the city of Winterthur. From 1461 he received an annual pension from Habsburg for his services. In 1465 he was appointed servant to Duke Sigismund for life .

In 1466/67, 1468/1469 and again for three years from 1470 to 1473 , Bruchli , who last lived in the vicinity of the Rothaus on Marktgasse, was last mayor, and he held the office thirteen times. As early as 1471, Bruchli, who was married to Anna Ellinger von Konstanz, moved to Konstanz in order to inherit from his father-in-law. But he remained connected to Winterthur. In 1475 he donated 400 guilders for a preaching office in the city ​​church of Winterthur , in whose sacristy his coat of arms is immortalized. In 1481 Duke Siegmund confirmed the redemption of Habsburg pledges for Winterthur on the initiative of Bruchli. He is also the donor of the wall paintings in the Veltheim church , which was the annual destination of the city's pilgrimage.

After his, he bequeathed, among other things, the Kehracker at the hospital in Winterthur and obliged his heirs to give 540 guilders to the city for the purpose of paying off debts. His widow also bequeathed a farm in Wiler to the Beerenberg monastery on March 2, 1495 .

Individual references and sources

• Kaspar Hauser : Coat of arms in the sacristy of the town church in Winterthur 1493 . In: Swiss Archives for Heraldry, Volume XXVI. Volume 3, 1912, pp. 120-122 ( online  - Internet Archive [accessed October 15, 2016]).
• Peter Niederhäuser : Winterthur city history . From the beginning to 1850. Volume 1 . Chronos Verlag, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-0340-1212-6 , Between Dependence and Autonomy (1300–1550), pp. 111, 120, 129, 141, 145, 150, 178 .