Wyttenbach (patrician family)

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Wyttenbach coat of arms (with the straight stream)

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.

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Branch with the sloping brook in the coat of arms

Branch with the straight brook in the coat of arms

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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.

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