Guild of the Mohren

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Guild of the Mohren
purpose Civil corporation
Chair: Rolf Henzi (President)
Establishment date: before 1383
Number of members: 1088
Seat : Zunfthaus zum Mohren
Kramgasse 12
3011 Bern Switzerland
SwitzerlandSwitzerland 
Website: www.mohrenzunft.ch
The Gesellschaftshaus zum Mohren on Kramgasse in Bern.

The Zunft zum Mohren (formerly Gesellschaft zum Möhren ) 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 Mohren.

The Zunft zum Mohren appears in the sources for the first time in 1383 and included tailors, cloth merchants and cloth clippers .

coat of arms

The guild's coat of arms shows a Moor on a silver background. It is possible that in the Middle Ages, when the most expensive fabrics came from the Orient , the guild wanted to use this symbol of the Orient to advertise the quality of their fabrics. The current depiction of the coat of arms dates back to 1891, when it was redesigned on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of the city.

The guild's coat of arms and house emblem became the subject of public discussion in 2014 through a move by the two SP city councilors Halua Pinto de Magalhães and Fuat Köçer, who called for a “solution to racist representations in public space”.

According to Bernhard C. Schär from the Institute for History at the ETH Zurich, the current depiction of the coat of arms from the late 19th century depicts the scientific racism of the time, which saw black people as inferior people, through the strongly flattened forehead . The house sign is also in the form of a Moor statue from 1700 in front of the guild house on Kramgasse and thus comes from a time when the guild invested significant sums in the African slave trade between 1719 and 1734 via the British South Sea company.

people

The Zunft zum Mohren include:

literature

  • Gotthold Appenzeller: The Society for Carrots , Bern 1916.
  • Anna Maria Cetto: The house sign of the Zunft zum Mohren in Bern , Bern 1970.
  • Adolf Gerster: The Carrot Society . In: Berner Taschenbuch on the year 1870, pp. 313–332. doi: 10.5169 / seals-122795
  • Directory of the citizenship of the city of Bern on January 1st, 2015. Burgerbuch. Edited from official sources and from private communications. Bern 2015, ISBN 978-3-7272-1436-3 .

Web links

Commons : Zunft zum Mohren  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  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).
  3. ↑ a b Fabian Christl: Now it's the "Mohren" on the collar ( memento from January 19, 2019 in the Internet Archive ), Der Bund , May 10, 2014
  4. ↑ Bernhard C. Schär: Forgotten Colonial History , Der Bund , December 29, 2014
  5. ↑ Burgerbuch 2015, p. 174, no. 4th

Coordinates: 46 ° 56 '53.3 "  N , 7 ° 27' 5.4"  E ; CH1903:  600 980  /  one hundred and ninety-nine thousand six hundred and seventy-two