Drinking room associations of the Zurich guilds
The drinking room associations of the Zurich guilds were among the most important political and social institutions in the city of Zurich . Some of the drinking parlors later became the Zurich guild houses .
Emergence
The drinking tavern societies (formerly also called the Ürten community ) of craftsmen already existed in late medieval Zurich. Their origins are in the dark. In Zurich it was common practice to strengthen the cohesion of a group by eating and drinking together in a drinking room. Such communities also gathered spontaneously on the street, for example when rural residents in the city fed together because shopping together was cheaper. In addition to food and drink, the bill was evenly distributed among the participants. This equal division of the bill as well as the drinking community was called Ürte .
The importance of the drinking rooms for the internal cohesion of the guilds led in the 16th century to the fact that the guilds named themselves after their drinking rooms, while the name after trades became less common. In the early modern era, people mostly talked about the guild of the Red Eagle and rarely about the guild of carpenters .
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Guild (today's name) |
Prehistory of the drinking room | Guild house since |
House name (former guild name) |
Special drinking rooms |
| Constaffel | First mentioned in 1348 as a successor to a gentleman's drink room | 1490 | " Males " | |
| Gerwe | 1400/1408 | "Red lion" | ||
| Combs | 1487 | " Kämbel " | ||
| Titmice | "Meisen" drinking room mentioned in 1418 |
1449 | " Meisen " (change of location 1752) |
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| Saffron | Consolidation of several drinking rooms, of which the "zum Schiff" house was acquired in 1389 by a group of 18 investors | 1416/1440 | "Saffron" | |
| Shipmen | Merging of several drinking rooms in the house acquired by the shipmen in 1425 | around 1450? | "Golden angel" | |
| Schmiden | 1412 | "Golden Horn" | Society for the Black Garden | |
| Tailor | Merging of three drinking rooms. In 1459 the three trades still refused this | 1516 | "Yellow Sheep" (1528 by exchanging for the guild house bought in 1516) |
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| Shoemakers | 1490 | "Silberschmid" (change of location 1743) |
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| Scales | Purchase of the house in 1385 by a group of 22 linen weavers . 1440 Merger with the wool weavers' guild | 1385/1405 | "Waag" | |
| Away | 1404 | "Weggen" | Society for the garbage wheel | |
| Aries | 1401 | " Aries " | ||
| Carpenters | Merging of three drinking rooms in the Binder drinking room opened in 1416 | 1459 | " Red eagle " |
See also
literature
- Markus Brühlmeier, Beat Frei: The Zurich guild system, Volume 1, pp. 142–149; Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung; ISBN 3-03823-171-1
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schweizerisches Idiotikon , Volume I, column 488 ff., Article Ürte n , meanings 1–3 ( digitized version ); Markus Brühlmeier, Beat Frei: The Zurich guild system. Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-03823-171-1 , here Volume 1, pp. 142–143.