Wagner (patrician family)

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Church place sign for Emanuel Wagner (1756) in the Heiliggeistkirche (Bern) .

The von Wagner family is a Bernese patrician family belonging to the Zunftgesellschaft zu Schmieden .

history

The family from Grasswil is first recorded in Bern with the scribe Michel Wagner († 1591). In Bern, the Wagnerians provided numerous members of the Grand Council (1585 to 1798 continuously), governors and several Venners . Members of the family temporarily owned the lordships of Duillier and Bremgarten, Montagny Castle near Lutry, Muri Castle , Campagne Ortbühl and other country estates.

people

  • Michel Wagner († 1478/1479), Bailiff of the German Order of Sumiswald 1566–1590, of the Grand Council 1585
  • Vincenz Wagner (1606–1680), Herr zu Duillier, officer in France, commander in chief in Vaud, Venner to forge
  • Michael Wagner (1627–1680), of the Grand Council 1657, Schultheiss zu Burgdorf 1664, of the Small Council 1676
  • Abraham Wagner († 1765), authoritative printer
  • Sigmund von Wagner , draftsman, art connoisseur and historian

literature

  • Legal trade between Mr Gottlieb Wagner von Paudex, citizen of the city of Bern on the one hand, and Mr Melchior Schmid, as well as Mr Jean-Pierre-Matthieu de Noyant on the other hand ... , Bern 1778.
  • Georges Herzog u. a. (Ed.): In the shadow of the golden age. Artists and clients in the 17th century in Bern , Volume 1. Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern 1995, pp. 41–42.
  • Michael Stettler : Ortbühl. A Bernese country house . In: Berner Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Heimatkunde, Vol. 22 (1960) digitized
  • Michael Stettler: Ortbühl . In: Bernerlob. Attempts at local tradition , Bern 1963, pp. 241–261.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Château de Lutry at www.swisscastles.ch

Web links

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