Samuel Frisching (Schultheiss, 1605)

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Samuel Frisching (1605–1683)
Depiction of the Escalade de Genève by Frisching

Samuel Frisching (* 1605 in Nidau ; † 1683 ) was a Swiss mayor and from 1668 to 1682 mayor of the city ​​and republic of Bern . He was the father of Samuel Frisching .

Life

Samuel Frisching was born as the son of Bailiff Johann Frisching. When he was 15 years old, his father was a model master (troop inspector) in Tirano and was the victim of an assassination attempt. The following year he began studying in Geneva and continued in Paris from 1623 to 1626 . In 1629 Frisching joined the Grand Council, became a gross woman in 1634 and was governor of Trachselwald in the lower Emmental from 1637 to 1643 , where he expanded the existing castle.

In 1649 he acquired an estate in the eastern part of the village of Langnau im Emmental, which at that time belonged to the Trachselwald bailiff, and thus the right to be served in the 14th century vaulted cellar of the current Gasthof Hirschen, which was then called "Frischingkeller". A pottery was soon built near a clay pit belonging to the estate, from which the oldest products in Langnau ceramics come from. In Langnau Frisching used to spend the summer months with his family and had a castle-like mansion built for this purpose, which in the 19th century was the seat ("castle") of the Bernese governor and in whose place the current administrative building was built in 1955.

At the end of his time as governor, Frisching returned to Bern and became Venner in 1653 and mayor in 1668. The trust he had gained after the Peasants' War of 1653 helped him to this position . At that time, as the chief auditor of the court that condemned the rebellious peasant leaders ( Niklaus Leuenberger , Daniel Küpfer, Ueli Galli ), he punished the tyrannical Trachselwalder governor Samuel Tribolet with just as severity . In 1682, the year before his death, Frisching resigned from his office due to old age. He remained connected with Langnau throughout his life and was u. a. Initiator of the new building of the Reformed Church in Langnau, which took place from 1673 to 1676 .

literature

  • Barbara Braun-Bucher: The Bernese mayor Samuel Frisching (1605-1683). Literature, education, constitution and politics of the 17th century based on a biography . Bern 1991, ISBN 3-7272-0495-8 .
  • Agathe Straumann: Children's letters from the 17th century , in: Berner Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Heimatkunde, Vol. 20 (1958), pp. 10-13, doi : 10.5169 / seals-243606

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predecessor Office successor
Anton von Graffenried (II.) Schultheiss of Bern Sigmund von Erlach