Guild to weavers

Guild to weavers
purpose	Civil corporation
Chair:	Heinz Wildbolz (chairman)
Establishment date:	before 1340
Number of members:	1032
Seat :	Zunfthaus zu Webern ; Gerechtigkeitsgasse 68 ; 3011 Bern Switzerland;
Website:	www.webern.ch

Guild house in Webern in Bern.

The Guild of Webern is one of the 13 societies and guilds in the city of Bern and a public corporation guaranteed by the constitution of the Canton of Bern . It is a civil corporation within the meaning of Bernese municipal legislation and is subject to the supervision of the cantonal authorities. As a personal corporation, it does not have its own territory and is taxable. It includes all citizens of Bern who have the guild rights to Webern.

The Guild of Webern appears in the sources for the first time on April 1, 1373. The crafts of weavers and walkers, cloth makers, dyers and hat makers were organized as a society on Webern.

people

Georg Emanuel Ludwig Ziegler , founder of the Ziegler Hospital
Karl Stauffer-Bern , sculptor
Karl von Greyerz , socialist theologian
Otto von Greyerz , historian
Kaspar von Gruyeres , historian
Nicola von Gruyères , politician
Nils Althaus , actor and singer

literature

Alfred Zesiger : The Society for the Webers , Bern 1914.

Web links

Commons : Zunft zu Webern - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Official website of the Guild of Webern
Guild zu Webern on the website of the Burgergemeinde Bern
Archive of the Guild of Webern in the catalog of the Bern Burger Library

Single references

^ State Chancellery of the Canton of Bern: Constitution of the Canton of Bern. SR 131.212. In: Systematic Legal Collection SR . Voters of the Canton of Bern, June 6, 1993, accessed on June 14, 2018 (Article 107 in Section 7 municipalities; as of March 11, 2015).
^ State Chancellery of the Canton of Bern: Municipal Law of the Canton of Bern. BSG 170.11. In: Systematic legal collection of the Canton of Bern BSG. Grand Council of the Canton of Bern , March 16, 1998, accessed on June 14, 2018 (Article 117 in Section 2.2 Civic Communities and Civil Corporations; Status on January 1, 2014).

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[1] State Chancellery of the Canton of Bern: Constitution of the Canton of Bern. SR 131.212. In: Systematic Legal Collection SR . Voters of the Canton of Bern, June 6, 1993, accessed on June 14, 2018 (Article 107 in Section 7 municipalities; as of March 11, 2015).

[2] State Chancellery of the Canton of Bern: Municipal Law of the Canton of Bern. BSG 170.11. In: Systematic legal collection of the Canton of Bern BSG. Grand Council of the Canton of Bern , March 16, 1998, accessed on June 14, 2018 (Article 117 in Section 2.2 Civic Communities and Civil Corporations; Status on January 1, 2014).