Guild of tanners

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EE guild of tanners
purpose guild
Chair: Christoph Streib (master)
Establishment date: before 1242
Seat : Basel
Website: http://www.gerbernzunft.ch/

EE Zunft zu Gerbern is a public corporation of the city of Basel and one of the numerous Basel craft guilds. It is the historical association of tanners, but today it is open to all professions. For a long time it was associated with the shoemakers' guild as a so-called double guild .

Guild history The first Basel guilds were founded in the 13th century and were at that time trade or craft associations, e.g. B. blacksmiths, shoemakers, bread bakers, tailors, furriers, tanners, etc. In the past, tanners and shoemakers appeared together as a so-called double guild. However, there were so many disputes that the two guilds were eventually separated.

The tanners settled around the Birsig and the Rümelinbach, because the skins had to be properly watered in the first step. This is where the expression "your skins won't swim away" comes from. The tanners mainly had their workplaces on the left side of the Birsig; The "Gerwerstraze" is mentioned as early as 1291. 1333 also a house "under the upper Gerwern". In 1294 the "Gerberlaube" on the Gerberberg was first documented. The property was located near the Richtbrunnen at the Richtplatz, where the Gerberberg now converges on Gerbergasse.

In 1358 the indebted tanners had to sell their guild house for 110 pounds Stebler to the changer Heinrich Sevogel, who rented it back to the guild as heir for 4 pounds of ordinary Basel pfennigs and 5 shillings for Ehrschatz. The first document received from the tanners' guild dates from 1368. The correction of the too narrow Gerbergasse sealed the fate of the guild house in 1874; it was taken over by the state for 45,000 francs and demolished together with the neighboring guild houses to gardeners and tailors. For almost 80 years the guild was homeless, from 1877 the "Mueshus" in Spalenvorstadt 14 was the meeting place of the guild board. Since 1951, the E. Zunft zu Gerbern has had a guild room again, which is located on the first floor of the Löwenzorn restaurant on the Gämsberg and therefore at least close to the former place where the tanners worked.

Basel leather was a sought-after export item and the tanners' guild flourished in the 16th and 17th centuries. The resourceful tanners bought their raw materials in bulk and set up their own tanneries for the guild members. Around the middle of the 17th century, the tanners also settled in Kleinbasel, in the area around Ochsengasse, Utengasse and Rheingasse. They watered their skins in the middle part of the Riehenteich and let the waste flow into the Rhine. Later the tanners suffered from import and export restrictions and their number fell sharply. The craft of tanning died out in Basel with the closure of the Raillard tannery in 1910. This was located in Kleinbasel on Rheingasse for almost 100 years.

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  1. ↑ EE stands for one honor