Guild society to the monkey

Guild society to the monkey
purpose	Civil corporation
Chair:	Silvia Büchler (President of the Superiors College)
Establishment date:	before 1321
Number of members:	875
Seat :	Zunfthaus zum Affen ; Kramgasse 5 ; 3011 Bern Switzerland;
Website:	www.affen.ch

The Zunftgesellschaft zum Affen is one of the 13 old artisan societies and guilds (guild society of stonemasons and stone carvers) 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 community of persons, it has no territory of its own and no tax privilege. It includes all burgersvon Bern, who also have the company law (called "room law") on monkeys. The Zunftgesellschaft zum Affen is responsible for social welfare tasks for its guild members living in the canton of Bern and is taxable for the canton. The guild gains the necessary financial means from the management of its assets, which mainly consist of properties in the city of Bern.

The guild house is located at Kramgasse 5 in Bern's old town and is easily recognizable by the red monkey on the facade.

The Zunftgesellschaft zu Affen first appears in the sources as the brotherhood of stone masons in 1321, making it one of the oldest guild societies in the city of Bern and Switzerland.

people

Non-exhaustive list of members of the Society for Monkeys, about which a German Wikipedia article exists.

Emil Dick , engineer and inventor
Abraham Dünz , architect
Samuel Jenner , architect
Carl Ahasver von Sinner , architect
Niklaus Sprüngli , architect
Albrecht Stürler , architect
Ludwig Samuel Stürler , architect
Hélène Adèle Cécile von Stürler (1873–1908), feminist and bohemian
Friedrich Traffelet , painter
Ben Vatter , musician

literature

Ulrich Gisiger: The Bern guild society to the monkey. A guild book for the Münster year. Benteli-Verlag, Bern et al. 1993, ISBN 3-7165-0865-9 .

Web links

Commons : Zunftgesellschaft zum Affen - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Official website of the Zunftgesellschaft zum Affen
Zunftgesellschaft zum Affen on the website of the civic community of Bern
Archive of the Zunftgesellschaft zum Affen in the Bern Burger Library catalog

Literature on the Zunftgesellschaft zum Affen in the catalog of the German National 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).
↑ Barbara Büttner (babü): Approaching the Bern painter Friedrich Traffelet (1897–1954). In: BrunneZytig. United Old Town Bar, Bern, November 24, 2017, p. 28; Page 7 , accessed on May 14, 2019 : "The family was and is living in the Zunftgesellschaft zum Affen."

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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).

[3] Barbara Büttner (babü): Approaching the Bern painter Friedrich Traffelet (1897–1954). In: BrunneZytig. United Old Town Bar, Bern, November 24, 2017, p. 28; Page 7 , accessed on May 14, 2019 : "The family was and is living in the Zunftgesellschaft zum Affen."