Wyttenbach (patrician family)
The von Wyttenbach family is a Bernese patrician family originally from Biel , who had held the citizenship rights of the city of Bern since 1586 (branch with the inclined brook in the coat of arms) and 1623 (branch with the straight brook in the coat of arms) .
The Wyttenbach family was first mentioned in Biel in 1363. The family gained great wealth and prestige through the tanning trade. Steffan Wyttenbach (1468–1523) stayed at the Savoyard court in his youth and received a letter of nobility from Emperor Maximilian in 1511 , which redefined the coat of arms with a sloping stream in the coat of arms. Wyttenbach became a citizen of Freiburg im Breisgau . His well-to-do son Niklaus (1491–1566) moved to Biel and in 1548 to Bern, where he joined the Society of Middle Lions . The actual progenitor of the Bernese Wyttenbach with the sloping brook in the coat of arms was his grandson, the goldsmith Petermann († 1608). He gave up the junker title .
The pharmacist Hans Konrad Wyttenbach (1595–1665), fourth cousin of the goldsmith Petermann, acquired the Bern civic law in 1623 and in 1629 was a member of the Grand Council. The Wyttenbach family of pharmacists held numerous political offices until the end of the Ancien Régime.
people
Branch with the sloping brook in the coat of arms
- Jakob Samuel Wyttenbach (1748–1830), Swiss Reformed pastor and natural historian
Branch with the straight brook in the coat of arms
- Daniel Wyttenbach (1746–1820), German-Swiss scholar
- David Samuel Daniel Wyttenbach (1706–1779), German-Swiss theologian, father of Daniel Wyttenbach
- Daniel Jeanne Wyttenbach (1773–1830), German-Swiss-French writer and Philhellenic, granddaughter of David Samuel Daniel Wyttenbach and wife of Daniel Wyttenbach
Archives
- Wyttenbach family archive (1) ( Bern burger library )
- Wyttenbach Family Archives (2) ( State Archives of the Canton of Bern )
literature
- Manuel Kehrli: On the social position of the middle-class Wyttenbach family around 1600 In: Vera Heuberger: Bilderwelt des Himmelbetts , Bern 2000, pp. 12–13, 61.
Web links
- Main line Wyttenbach on the homepage of the Bernese families
- Wyttenbach coat of arms (oblique) on www.chgh.ch
- Wyttenbach coat of arms (straight) on www.chgh.ch