Vennerkammer
Johann Frisching , Venner for butchers (1726)
The Vennerkammer was a committee of the Small Council of the City and Republic of Bern .
Under the chairmanship of the Deutschseckelmeister, the four Venners formed the German Vennerkammer (finance commission), and under the Welschseckelmeister the Welsche Vennerkammer. The Chamber possessed extensive powers, not only in financial terms. She prepared reports on constitutional law, advised disputes on tenancy law and elected the Bernese embassies.
archive
- Archives of the Vennerkammer and Seckelschreiberei, State Archives of the Canton of Bern , B VII 1–445 .
literature
- Karl Geiser: The constitution of old Bern , in: Festschrift for the VII. Secular celebration of the foundation of Bern 1191-1891, Bern 1891, p. 118.
- Johann Rudolf Gruner, Deliciae urbis Bernae: Merckworthiness of the hochlöbl. City of Bern. Compiled from mostly unprinted authentic writings , Zurich 1732, pp. 40–41. on-line
- Christoph von Steiger: Internal problems of the Bernese patriciate at the turn of the 18th century , Bern 1954.