Guild Society for Butchers

Guild Society for Butchers
purpose	Civil corporation
Chair:	Rolf Grädel (chairman)
Establishment date:	around 1300
Number of members:	1336
Seat :	Zunfthaus zu Metzgern Kramgasse 45 3011 Bern Switzerland
Website:	www.metzgern.ch

Society house for butchers on Kramgasse in Bern.

The Zunftgesellschaft zu Metzgern 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 right to be butchers. The Zunftgesellschaft zu Metzgern currently has around 1200 members.

The Zunftgesellschaft zu Metzgern appears in the sources for the first time in the 14th century. From the 15th century one of the four had Venner Berns room journeyman to be butchers. The up-and-coming generations of the Venner societies Pfistern, Schmieden, Metzgern and Gerwern thus had a political privilege. Numerous families increasingly devoted themselves to politics and in modern times formed the patriciate.

people

Non-exhaustive list of members of the guild society for butchers, about which a German Wikipedia article exists.

• Peter Kistler , Venner, Schultheiss von Bern
• Benedikt Tschachtlan , Venner, chronicler
• Georg Schöni , court clerk and venner
• Hans Frisching (II.) , Rice traveler
• Samuel Frisching (1605) , mayor of Bern
• Johann Friedrich Willading , mayor of Bern
• Samuel Frisching (1638) , mayor of Bern
• Johann Frisching , officer, diplomat and Venner
• Rudolf Emanuel Frisching , politician and officer
• Samuel Rudolf Frisching , officer
• Franz Rudolf Frisching , officer, magistrate and industrialist
• Karl Albrecht von Frisching , politician
• Jeremias Gotthelf , writer
• Albert Bitzius , pastor and councilor
• Gabriel Rudolf Ludwig von Sinner (1801–1860), philologist and librarian
• Carl Adolf Otth (1803–1839), doctor and naturalist
• Alfred de Quervain , geophysicist and Arctic explorer
• Bernhard Studer , geologist
• Adolf von Morlot , geologist and prehistorian
• Gottlieb Studer , theologian
• Gottlieb Samuel Studer , governor and mountaineer
• Rudolf Otto von Büren , Mayor of Bern
• Fritz de Quervain , medic
• Theophil Studer , physician
• Bernhard Luginbühl , sculptor and iron sculptor
• Werner Martignoni , Member of the Government and National Council

literature

• Zunftgesellschaft zu Metzgern Bern (Ed.): The full guild cup. People, customs and stories from the Zunftgesellschaft zu Metzgern Bern. Lanius Verlag, Bern 2006, ISBN 978-3-03-300815-1 .

Web links

Commons : Zunftgesellschaft zu Metzgern  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website of the Zunftgesellschaft zu Metzgern
• Zunftgesellschaft zu Metzgern on the website of the Burgergemeinde Bern
• Archive of the Zunftgesellschaft zu Metzgern in the catalog of the Bern Burger Library

Single references

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). 

Coordinates: 46 ° 56 '52.1 "  N , 7 ° 27' 0.3"  E ; CH1903:  600871  /  199,636