heraldic animal of the Society of Central Lions
by Michelle Meenawong
Title
heraldic animal of the Society of Central Lions
Artist
Michelle Meenawong
Medium
Photograph - Metal Print
Description
The red lion the heraldic animal of the Berne w: de: Society for Central Lions on the Marktgasse in Bern.
The Society of Central Lions is one of the 13 companies of the city of Bern and thus a public body guaranteed by the Constitution of the Canton of Ber.n It is a burgerliche corporation in the sense of the bernischen municipality legislation and under the supervision of the cantonal authorities. As a personnel body, it has no own territory and is taxable. It includes all citizens of Bern, who have the corporate law on Central Lions.
The beginnings of the Bernese parlor society to the (middle) red lion are largely in the dark. The coat of arms after (walking lion with Gerber knife) Stube was founded to the red lion, next to the then existing upper and lower tannery, as artisanal embossed Gerberstube. However, a statement by the seditious butcher and future mayor Peter Kistler is able to shed light on the reasons for the emergence of a third Gerberstube in Bern when he attacks the Bernese noble families in the Grand Council in 1467. The noblemen of Bern urged into the artisanal venner companies , in order thereby to reach the important offices of the city:Yes, even a few houses are thrown out, and some of them may belong to the poorest ones, and yet they are all junkher. This was ... to minten cyten ... happen, as Kistler further noted. In the oldest directories there are no Gerber, but nobles, notables , large merchants, landlords and specialized professions such as scribes, pharmacists and artists. This suggests a founding of the parlor of the Red Lion as patrician society around 1430/40. The earliest known documentary mention of the room to the red lion can be found in the testament of the Kannengiessers Hans von Miltenberg from the year 1461.
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