Wyss (patrician family, with the pistons)

Bern Minster , church place sign, with Wyss coat of arms (around 1830)

The Wyss family , with the plunger (piston reed) in the coat of arms was a Bernese patrician family that since about 1520 the burgers right of Bern possessed and 2003 went out.

people

• Jakob Wyss († 1546), conductor in Hettiswil , monastery conductor in Zofingen, governor of Münchenbuchsee
• Anton Wyss (1531–1589), Kastlan zu Wimmis, the Small Council, Landvogt zu Wangen, witness, Böspfenniger
• Johann Rudolf Wyss (1721–1805), advocate and notary, owner of Gerzensee Castle
• Johann David Wyss (1743–1818), pastor at the cathedral in Bern, owner of the Buchsiggut in Köniz
• Johann Rudolf Wyss (1782–1830), professor of theology
• Johann Emanuel Wyss (1782–1837), draftsman, painter and heraldist
• Johann Gottlieb Wyss (1787–1857), advocate, councilor 1831–1837
• Robert Ludwig Wyss (1921–2003), art historian, director of the Bernisches Historisches Museum, ultimus

archive

• Wyss family archive in the catalog of the Bern Burger Library

literature

• Hans Braun: Wyss (BE, with the piston). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Wolf Maync: Bernese residential castles. Your history of ownership , Bern 1980, p. 93.
• Face to face. Portrait studies. Michael Stettler on his 70th birthday, compiled and edited. von Florens Deuchler et al., Stämpfli, Bern 1983, ISBN 3-7272-9207-5 , p.

Web links

Commons : Wyss family (bulrushes)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Wyss coat of arms (piston) on www.chgh.ch