Louise Elisabeth de Meuron

Louise Elisabeth de Meuron from Tscharner pronunciation: [ ˌ d̥œmœ rɔ ː ], better known as Madame de Meuron ( born August 22, 1882 in Bern, † 22 May 1980 Riggisberg ), was a personality from the Bernese patricians.

Life

In the city the family home on Cathedral Square - now the seat of the cantonal tax office - she was the daughter of Ludwig von Tscharner and Anna ( nee von Wattenwyl ). Zürcher your lover rejected the family, they had in 1905 her cousin Frederic Alphonse de Meuron marry; the marriage was divorced in 1923. Her father, Dr. phil. and Colonel of the Engineer Corps, died 1927. Their son committed suicide in 1939, her daughter wandered off to Morocco.

She was the owner of several houses in the old town of Bern and the Alp Rämisgummen above Eggiwil. And she had inherited paternal castle Amsoldingen, maternal Rümligen castle, her long-time principal residence. She died at the age of nearly 98 years in the district hospital Riggisberg. Her grave is in the cemetery of Gerzensee.

The fate of her son led Elisabeth de Meuron, life to wear mourning clothes. It dealt in detail with philosophy and wrote countless letters. In Rümligen she organized regularly the famous Concours hippique ( jumping ). Your stately lifestyle was striking. The Living Elisabeth de Meuron's led to countless anecdotes have received that have their truth, but are not to be taken in each case at face value. For her role as Bern's city original not only wore their anachronistic appearance with old-fashioned mourning, walking stick and stethoscope - " So Ghor i nume what i wott " - when, but also their often eccentric behavior. She was often accompanied by their Russian greyhounds out on the town. Your servant was allowed to leave the car anywhere; the policemen present she explained: "Me Laht that there!" Tram The Bernese she used always without billet, because: " I ​​bi before em Tram because gsi! " Unknown persons asked directly: " Syt the öpper or nämet wage " as a farmer wanted to sit on the pew of Frisching family in the church Thurnen, she told him: "In heaven upper sy mer mynetwäge alli glych, but here unde wei mer einschtwyle no Ornig ha! " And when they on their Schlossgut a vagabond ( in her words: " schturms Froueli, Tschaaggeli " ) caught in a fruit theft, disabling this for two days in the carriage house. Charged with false imprisonment, she showed in court a medieval attestation of the Low jurisdiction for the Rümliger castle owner; She was released with a caution about the current legal system, together with a smaller fine.

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