Margaretha (Nussbaum) Wild (abt. 1508)

Born about 1508 in Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland

Died [date unknown] in Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland

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Biography

Margaretha was born about 1508.

Sources

• "Zur Genealogie der Familie Otth", autor August Burkhart, Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Alterstumkunde, 1933. Ein Dienst Der ETH-Bibliothek, ETH Zurich, Rämistrasse 101, 8092 Zurich, Schweiz. https://www.e-periodica.ch/cntmng?pid=bzg-002%3A1933%3A32%3A%3A387

To the genealogy of the Otth family

Author (s): Burckhardt, August Object type: Article

Journal: Basel journal for history and antiquity

Volume (year): 32 (1933)

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To the genealogy of the Otth family. Of August Burckhardt.

With Heinrich Gustav Otth from Bern (born 1806, died 1874), a former officer in the royal Neapolitan service, a family died out in the male line which, albeit always few in number, was a whole series in seven generations during around 250 years of its homeland able magistrates, many pastors and also some not insignificant scholars. But the same thing is interesting for our city in two ways. Firstly, because it originally came from Basel, and secondly, because two nieces of Heinrich Gustavs mentioned above - daughters of his sister Clara Maria Charlotte (born 1801, died 1839), wife of the professor of chemistry at the Academy of Bern, Karl Emanuel Brunner (born 1796, died 1867) - who wed two of the most outstanding Basel statesmen from the second half of the last century, namely Rosalie (born 1826, died 1908) with Mayor Felix Sarasin (born 1797, died 1862) and Berta (born 1828, died 1900) with Councilor August Staehelin (born 1812, died 1886). In our opinion, this alone justifies a somewhat more detailed treatment of this gender in our journal. In addition, thanks to the extensive family archive, we are in the fortunate position of being able to find out everything that is desirable about the first two generations - the last from Basel and the first from Bern. The family portraits - again including those of the first two generations - have also come to us in rare completeness 1).

1) All portraits of the male Otth with one exception can also be found reproduced in copper engraving in the "Icônes virorum gentis et stirpis Ottiorum", which has become quite rare work by Joh. Kas- Basler Zeitschr. f. business and antiquity. 32nd volume. We give them, as well as that of the only representative of the third generation, which is very interesting in terms of costumes, as an addition to our text. A "family register" provides us with information about the family itself and its fortunes, which was created at the end of the 17th century by Heinrich Gustav's great-great-grandfather, Johann Heinrich Otth, pastor of Hochstetten (born 1651, died 1719) and his great-son of the same name ( born 1727, died 1813), the Schultheis zu Burgdorf, member of the inner council and Venner zu Bern, as well as his son - so above Heinrich Gustav's father - Karl Emanuel (born 1772, died 1850), accountant in the cantonal Finance office until the third decade of the last century. The oldest document still available from the family archive is the birth or male rights letter of the first Bernese Otth - Heinrichs (born 1593, died 1628) - from which we naturally also learn the names and status of his parents; we will write it later in full. From his ancestors in Basel, as the "Stammbuch" says, "there are few reports. According to tradition, his father was" - i. H. Heinrich's grandfather above - »by the name of Valentin, also a burger and businessman and in the magistrate in Basel, and his mother Sara Wild a citizen of Basel. The only proof of this is a copper sigili, on which our leading coat of arms this time, namely a bell on three mountains, is engraved with the year 1556 and the writing VELTE OTT; an old portrait is also available 2). This, Valentin's father, is said to have been called Georg according to tradition and to have been in the magistracy. However, he is not aware of any further circumstances ".

par Ott, of the Zurich Council, published in 1790. It brings primarily the Zurich and Bern representatives of the name, but then also individual Ott from Lucerne, Schwyz, Glarus. St Gallen, Solothurn and Graubünden. It may be added that we find the following names represented among the artists who carried out the 23 portraits in total - apart from Otthian also a few Brunnerian ones: Bartholomaeus Sarburg, Jos. Werner the Elder. Joh. Dünz, Jon. Rud. Huber, job. Ulrich Schnetzler, Joh. Rud. Studer, Emanuel Handmann, Tiberius Woclier, Heinrich Rieter and Pierre Nicolas Le Grand. 2) The same thing is unfortunately nowhere to be found.

(Text below the picture) Heinrich Ottli. the older. Planner for Wintersingen. Sign. "II. Sarburg 1621 .

This scanty news about the Basel prehistoric times can be supplemented not insignificantly from the files of the local state archive. We want to add what we found there shortly. We now learn the following about the aforementioned Valentin: He was a furrier by profession and seems to have become a member of the Grand Council in 1524 3). This is his first mention; he did not die until 1572. He was married at least twice to the aforementioned Sara Wild, whom he had married in 1549, who was his second wife, who also survived him. In his first marriage he was married to Anna Schärer, the widow of the furrier Hans von Metz, from at least 1534. She brought him the house at Schneidergasse No. 1 "Zum Grosse Stetten", which she and her first husband had lived in since 1526 and that in 1572 Ott's widow, Sara Wild, along with her three children who were still alive at the time , resold. The chronicler Wurstisen reports about the tragic end of the first wife in his "Analecta" for the year 1547 according to Buxtorf-Falkeysen's translation: "On September 28th, Benedicht Stockher, merchant from Schaffhausen 4), came to Veitin Ott, the furrier's house, to sponsor a child. As a friend of the family he had quarters with the family. In the evening Ott went to the watch and the host made himself the killer of the hostess's honor through outrageous, violent adultery. Tormented by shame In desperation they went into the Rhine and found the death they were looking for. The horrific incident was to be prosecuted by the Malefizgericht, but a letter from the Messrs. von Schaffhausen thwarted the legal process. The culprit, however, was punished with 300 guilders and he was forbidden to enter the city. " 3) According to Leus Helvet. Lexicon XIV., P. 343 That he would have been a member of the Small Council, as Leu seems to believe, is probably out of the question, since the council lists do not mention his name, but those about the Grand Council crews are incomplete. 4) Benedict Stockar (1516-1597), chamberlain of the French kings Heinrich II, Franz II. And Karl IX., Raised to the French nobility in 1559, lord of the Neunforn since 1554, after which rulership his descendants named themselves from then on.

From his first marriage Ott had two sons and two daughters, but apparently he survived all four of them. From his second marriage to Sara Wild there were also two sons and five daughters, all of whom had only one son and two daughters left when he died. We will learn more about the former in a moment. Sara Wild, the ancestral mother of the family, was the daughter of the provost in the college and schoolmaster of the high monasteries Anton Wild and Margaretha Nussbaum. If the "Stammbuch" names a Georg Ott as Veltin's father, then it is wrong. Veltin's father also had this name. He was a native of the Palatinate, a shopkeeper by profession and acquired Basel citizenship in 1507. We do not know any more about to him, "in the magistrate", as the "Stammbuch" means, he does not seem to have been. After these introductory remarks we first give the wording of the calligraphically beautifully executed "birth letter" on parchment, which the younger Veltin, great son Heinrich Ott received from the mayor and council of Basel in 1616. that relatively few such letters from that time in the original have survived and that the present copy is a particularly detailed one and is indicative of the clumsy and rambling chancellery style of the era. The document now reads as follows 6): "I, Theodor Brandt , Landvogt of the County of Farnsburg, the noble, strict, pious, best, considerate, honorable and wise Lord Mayor and Councilor of the City of Basel, my gracious gentlemen, belonging, I publicly confess and make it known, i.e. from me, with this letter that Today's date has come and appeared for me, the respected and humble Heinrich Ott, the younger, born in Wintersingen, confessed to the venerable and learned Mr. Heinrich Otten, the pastor of Wintersingen, his beloved father - both citizens of the honorable city of Basel - and gave me to recognize that he is now good times abroad, especially in the praiseworthy city of Bern, in the art of writing and having stayed, even where it might be considered by God Almighty, probably as soon as in Bern or other places where it is possible to settle down at home .

6) We have, of course, modernized both the orthography and the punctuation a little, the former insofar as we - except for proper names - consistently use minuscules, while in the original there is a fair amount of randomness and arbitrariness.

(Text below the picture) Heinrich Otth, the younger, since 1617 citizen / u Bern. Sign. "B. Sarburg 1622 ".

(Text below the picture) Susanna Blauner. Wife of Heinrich Olth the Younger Signed, .B Sarburg 1621 »

Because then he would like to receive a document and as a certificate of his marital birth, in order to say goodbye and is necessary to show it, so he turns to me with his diligent request to issue him with a written certificate. If I now consider that customers and testimony of the truth do not deny anyone, but should be given approvingly to those who legitimately demand this, even as much in myself as I would like to see his promotion and prosperity, so I willingly and willingly give him his desires then with the honorable Sebastian Ytin, Unterervogt, also an honorable court in Wintersingen, my officials, therefore duly inquired and made inquiries, and learned so much credible that the honorable Mr. Heinrich Ott and the deceased honorable and virtuous Mrs. Sara Grinaein When true pious married couples attended each other at Wintersingen in their marital status, fathered this Heinrich, their legitimate son, by and with one another, in addition to more children, in wedlock; According to the church baptismal register in Wintersingen, this is also the ordinary Anno fifteen hundred and ninety and three (1593), because the nineteenth day in July, baptized according to the Christian order and at that time by the honorable, venerable, well-learned, pious, distinguished and wise Messrs. Conrad Gotthardt, at that time governor of the Grafschaft Farnsburg, and Mr. Johan Jacob Freuler, dean and pastor of Sissach, as godparents, at that time also the honorable and virtuous Mrs. Anna Langmessner, then of the deceased Mr. Johann Schorendorf, former landlord of the Wilden Mann and the councilor, married housewife (all deceased and guarantor of the city of Basel) as godmother, lifted from holy baptism, and reported his dear parents, the pious, honest married couple, duly lived with each other, especially well-informed Mr. Heinrich Ott, his father, as still at the time when he diligently, pure and pure the holy word of God of a Christian community in winter singing, has preached and proclaimed faithfully in all, so he is very faithful in his profession, as he, the son, as long as he has lived there, very consciously, honestly and honestly, like a boy who is too familiar with honor and oath pending and due, held, in masses I do not use him any other than know to call him honor and good, and so now I say goodbye to him honestly with good favor, conscience and will, so since it would have been his opportunity, I further in him my administration would have liked to suffer and tolerate 6). Why my most humble service and kind requests that the young Heinrich Otten and his pious, Christian parents, also of his benevolent will, receive grace, favor, To show and to prove support and goodwill, that deserves and reciprocates honestly for me and everyone according to their status and nature. To announce this, I initially reported, Theodor Brandt, made my own innate seal (but me and my heirs always use it without harm) made public on this birth letter and told him, youngster, Heinrich Otten, at his request, so written than thirtieth day of April after the salutary and comforting birth of Jesus Christ, our only Lord Redeemer and Savior, marked one thousand six hundred and sixteen years (1616). Hans Jacob Keller notary and clerk in Liestal. " Thereupon Heinrich Otth, who had been working for some time to the full satisfaction of M. G. H. von Bern in the office of the Deutschseckelmeister Johannes Durheim, was initially accepted as a subject on June 9 of the same year 1616. The relevant document - "Heinrichen Oth his acceptance half to a subject" - is also still preserved and reads literally as follows: "We, the debtor and council of the city of Bern, hereby announce that all our officials and subjects in our city, count and. Gentlemen and people who have sat in court to whom this letter has been sent and who are shown that we humbly petition and commit to the pious, well-reported Heinrichen Oth, citizen of the city of Basel, resolutely and when he will come behind our lands and territories , and may find shelter and lodgings in our town or town, that we should always graciously treat him to one, even on due dignity and payment of twenty pounds, which he has deposited in our office in our hands, and has paid the accustomed homage to one National and subjects wanted to be accepted and, as long as he kept himself well and honest, also duly dealt with ours The landlord said that we would allow us to get used to the fact that we kept the document present in our document with our usual discreet seal and had it delivered to him. Saturday the ninth of June of this current sixteen hundred and sixteenth year 1616. "

6) From this passage it seems that Heinrich Otth was already active as a clerk of the palace at Farnsburg under Theodor Brand, who administered the local bailiwick from 1610 to 1620.

The "Stammbuch" then reports further: "The following year, April 7th, 1617, he received from MGH the councilors access to the highest court to be accepted as a citizen, which he was also allowed to do; August 14th In the same year he was also granted regimental citizenship. " Before we pursue the fate of his and his family, let us briefly turn to his parents, whom we got to know through the "birth letter". His father, born in 1558 - also Heinrich - was pastor of Grosshüningen from 1585 to 1589, from 1589— 1592 castle preacher at Farnsburg, finally from 1592 until his death in 1629 he was pastor of Wintersingen. His first marriage was in 1592 with Sara Gryneus, a daughter of Thomas Gryneus, former professor of the Latin and Greek language, only in Bern, Then in Basel, finally pastor and superintendent in Röteln, and Adelheid Steuber from Zurich. Two sons sprang from this marriage: Heinrich, who was treated in 1617 and became a Bernese citizen, and Hans Jakob, born in 1594, of whose birth his mother died. According to the "Stammbuch" he later moved to Liestal, where he is mentioned until 1643. He seems to have been unmarried, in any case he left no offspring. In his second marriage, Pastor Heinrich Otth married Margaretha Merz in 1597, from whom he had two daughters, about whose fate nothing is known. Margaretha was the daughter of Eusebius Merz or Martius from Auggen, first an imperial notary, then, as the successor to his future son-in-law, preacher at the castle in Farnsburg, finally pastor of Sissach, and Appollonia Ryff. Pastor Heinrichs Otth kept Latin funerary inscription in the church in Wintersingen Tonjola in his "Basilea sepulta", p. 337. After the "Stammbuch" his second son Joh. Jakob put a second epitaph there for him, which had the following wording: “Funeral of the venerable and well-learned Mr. Heinrich Oth, former pastor, who has presided over this community with godly zeal for 36 years. Died peacefully on December 19, 1628 7), awaiting a joyous resurrection. His only living son, Hans Jacob Otth, made this epitaph himself out of filial love and loyalty and had it painted by Mahler in 1635, his age 71. " The younger Heinrich died before his father at the end of 1628 from the plague that was rampant at the time. In 1619 he married Susanna Blauner, the daughter of the Bern city doctor Dr. Joseph Blauner and Salome Delsperger, from whom he left two sons and two daughters, all of whom, with the exception of the older son and their parents, succumbed to the plague. The only surviving child, Johann Heinrich (born 1624) “went traveling in his youth and stayed in France from 1642 to 1644. He died prematurely at the age of 29 in 1653 after he had been brought here from Burgdorf with colic, where he is said to have been under occupation due to the Peasants' War. "In 1645 he married Elisabeth Gottier, the daughter of Andreas Gottier , Landvogt zu Herzogenbuchsee, and Barbara Zeender.

7) Error instead of 1629, as Tonjola has correctly passed down.

(Text below the picture) Johann Heinrich Otth 1651. Joseph Werner, attributed to the old man.

His widow entered into a second marriage, with dean Rudolf Hybner. Through his three sons he became the last common ancestor of the line. Finally, we briefly give the series of his descendants, insofar as they were ancestors of Clara Maria Charlotte Otth, the wife of Prof. Karl Emanuel Brunner: Johann Heinrich's son of the same name (born 1651, died 1719), pastor of Hochstetten married to Katharina Ryhiner, the daughter of Johann Friedrich Ryhiner, bailiff of Brandis and Trachselwald, and Katharina Manuel, whose son Johannes (born 1690, died 1774), bailiff of Aarberg and Schwarzenburg, with Margaretha Bucher, a daughter of Joh Jakob Bucher and Anna Maria Fischer, his son Johann Heinrich (born 1727, died 1813), mayor of Burgdorf, of whom we have already mentioned as the continuation of the "Stammbuch", with Maria Magdalena von May, daughter of Albrechts von May, also Schultheissen zu Burgdorf, and Maria Magdalena Tscharner, finally Karl Emanuel (born 1772, died 1850) with Maria Johanna Charlotte Wiedemann from Braunschweig, daughter of the trader Konrad Eberhard Wiedeman n and Dorothea Friederike Raspe.

Transcription and translation by Astrid Hallauer