Bälliz-Freienhofgasse

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Bälliz-Freienhofgasse district

Bälliz-Freienhofgasse is a district of Thun . It is located on the southwestern edge of the old town and consists of an elongated island between the Inner and Outer Aare . The name Bälliz refers to this island in a broader sense; in the narrower sense only to the Bällizgasse running lengthways in the center of the island. In the southeast corner of the island is the Freienhof, the oldest inn in the city. In the northeast, the Bälliz is connected via Allmendgasse to the part of Thun on the left of the Aare and via the Kuhbrücke to Thun's old town. The parking garage, town hall, post and mill bridge lead to the center of the island. At the Freienhof, the train station bridge connects the Bälliz with the Thun train station on the left of the Aare and that connects the Sinnebrücke with the old town.

history

The Bälliz belongs to the second Thun city expansion in the second half of the 13th century. At that time there was only a bridgehead on the left bank of the river Aare in the area of ​​today's city center with a suburb in the area of ​​today's Freienhof, the senses. The Bälliz, which was hardly built up until the city was expanded, was initially separated from the senses by a water channel. Until the 18th century, the Äussere Aare was only inundated during floods. It was not until the Kander correction , in which the Kander was diverted into Lake Thun and across the Aare through the city of Thun, that the Bälliz became a permanent island.

etymology

The name of the Bälliz could not be interpreted with certainty until today. Bälliz is probably derived from the Gallic word "bellitio" (= poplar). But it can also be a deliberate naming of the new suburb, based on the model of Bellinzona , whose older German exonym is just like the oldest name evidence for the Bälliz Bellenz. Bälliz as the name of a part of the village occurs in more than ten communities in the Thun catchment area. Presumably, all of these Bälliz, none of which is attested before the 18th century, are in turn renamed after the Thun model.

Attractions

literature

  • Rainer C. Schwinges (Ed.): Bern's courageous time. Rediscovered in the 13th and 14th centuries. Bern 2003, p. 182.
  • Anne-Marie Dubler : The Thun-Oberhofen region on its way to the Bernese state (1384-1803). In: Bern journal for history and local history. 66, 2004, pp. 61-110, especially p. 69.
  • Armand Baeriswyl: City foundation, urban expansion and suburbs - two case studies from the canton of Bern. In: Guy De Boe, Frans Verhaeghe (Ed.): Urbanism in Medieval Europe. Papers of the, Medieval Europe Brugge 1997 'Conference, Vol. 1 (= IAP Rapporten 1). Zellik 1997, pp. 75-88.
  • Archaeological Service of the Canton of Bern (Ed.): Archeology in the Canton of Bern / Archeology dans le canton de Berne. Find reports and articles / Chronique archéologique et textes. Series of publications by the Education Department of the Canton of Bern. Volume VA, Bern 1990ff., Pp. 143f.
  • Paul Hofer: The city of Thun. Castle and town in the pre-Zahringian period (with enclosed maps). Thun 1981.
  • Peter Küffer: Thun. Historical summary from then until today. Thun 1981, p. 40.

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Coordinates: 46 ° 45 '  N , 7 ° 38'  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and fourteen thousand four hundred and sixty-seven  /  178.55 thousand