Zeerleder (patrician family)

Bern Minster , church place sign with Zeerleder coat of arms (around 1700)

Zeerleder house at Junkerngasse 51 in Bern

The Zeerleder family is a Bernese patrician family that originally came from Erfurt and has owned the citizenship of the city of Bern since 1542 . The family belongs to the Zunftgesellschaft zu Schmieden .

history

The Zeereder came from Erfurt to Bern, possibly originally from the Netherlands . The first name bearer in Bern was the coppersmith Hans Zeerleder. Members of the family were active in other manual trades and, in the 17th and 18th centuries, increasingly as clergymen, pharmacists and merchants. The banker Ludwig Zeerleder, Albrecht von Haller's son-in-law , was the first of the family to join the Bernese Grand Council in 1785.

The Zeerleder house with wall paintings by Rudolf Münger from 1897 at Junkerngasse 51 has been owned by the family since 1806. At times, the Zeerleder owned amsoldingen castle , the New Castle Belp and the Castle gravels .

people

• Hans Zeerleder († 1577), coppersmith
• Niklaus Zeerleder (1628–1691), provisional to Bern, cantor, pastor of Kirchberg / BE, dean of Burgdorf
• Ludwig Zeerleder (1727–1792), speculator, banker, dragoon major, member of the Grand Council
• Ludwig Zeerleder (1772–1840), politician and banker
• Bernhard Zeerleder (1788–1862), politician
• Theodor Zeerleder , Swiss architect
• Karl Zeerleder , politician and historian
• Alfred von Zeerleder , metallurgist
• Max Zeerleder , Swiss architect

Archives

• Zeerleder family archive ( Bern burger library )
• Zeerleder-Haus in the historical-topographical dictionary of the city of Bern

Web links

Commons : Zeerleder (patrician family)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Commons : Zeerleder-Haus  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Zeerleder coat of arms on www.chgh.ch