Bern-Gäbelbach
 Common quarter of Bern |
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| Coordinates | 595 159 / 199.75 thousand |
| height | 508 547 m |
| surface | 0.131 km² |
| Residents | 1658 (2019) |
| Population density | 12,656 inhabitants / km² |
| Proportion of foreigners | 41.7% (2019) |
| Quarter number | 608 |
| Post Code | 3027 |
| Statistical district | Bethlehem |
| district | Bümpliz-Oberbottigen |
Gäbelbach is a common quarter in the VI Bümpliz-Oberbottigen district and the statistical district 32 Bethlehem in the city of Bern . It borders on the common Bethlehem quarters of Riedern , Eymatt , Eichholz , Holenacker and Brünnen .
In 2019, the resident population was 1,658, of whom 967 were Swiss and 691 were foreigners.
Gäbelbach is above all a high-rise estate .
history
The name comes from the Gäbelbach of the same name in the northern valley below the district. In 1954 the city council made a postulate that Bern should consider building cheap apartments due to the housing shortage (1951 abolition of the restrictions on freedom of movement, population movement from the countryside to the city). After the Tscharnergut settlement (realization 1958-1965), the Gäbelbach development was realized between 1965 and 1968. Above all, high-rise buildings should avoid the uninterrupted growth of cities, maintain contiguous green spaces, offer community facilities and be inexpensive.
The development was carried out by the architects Hans and Gret Reinhard and Eduard Helfer, while the Fambau housing cooperative (family building cooperative), the Brünnen-Eichholz building cooperative and the Spycher siblings took over the building. The community center was added from 1970 to 1971. The development is in the tradition of the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM) and the Bauhaus .
The construction of high-rise buildings continued in the east bordering Holenacker , the last ones were completed there in 1984 and were the last ones in Bern for a long time.
Culture
Right from the start, the development included community facilities such as an indoor swimming pool, library, leisure wing, kindergarten and day school. In 1971 the community center at Gäbelhus was opened. It was supposed to be a meeting point - also for family celebrations, handicrafts, listening to music, etc. Peter Boris Kocher built the “village fountain” in 1975. The three concrete steles are intended to take up the brutalism of the architecture. He combines the concrete with the color aspects of Pop Art .
The Piazza restaurant with Italian cuisine is the only one in the neighborhood; it won a series in the Swiss television program Mini Beiz, dini Beiz .
The Gäbelbach Zoo, founded in 1978, originally housed numerous wild animals and domestic animals, but has been orphaned since mid-2019. The current operator no longer has time to take care of it and the zoo association has disbanded. The site is to be cleared by the end of February 2020. He became known in 2003 when militant animal rights activists cut open the fence of the deer enclosure. Then ten of the eleven deer escaped. Two were run over on the autobahn, six were shot by hunters and two returned by themselves.
From the Napoleon bridge over the Gäbelbach it is handed down that the French troops transported away the Bernese state treasure over this bridge during the French invasion of 1798. Napoleon Bonaparte helped finance his campaign in Egypt . The old stone arch bridge was demolished in 1961 and replaced by a concrete-steel composite bridge.
traffic
The tram line 8 runs across the center of Bern to Saali. In addition, there are good transport links to the neighboring district of Bern-Brünnen . The main roads 1 and 10 (common course) form the northern border to Brünnen.
Web links
- Common district of Gäbelbach on map.bern.ch
- Website of the Gäbelbach district
- Area information Gäbelbach / Holenacker
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interactive city map of the city of Bern (selection under "Topics")
- ↑ Resident population 2019 (PDF, 4.3 MB) City of Bern, March 2020, p. 14 , accessed on March 28, 2020 .
- ↑ The stream and its valley. In: Natur Bern West. Association for Natural and Landscape Values, accessed on March 28, 2020 .
- ↑ a b The Gäbelbach story. gaebelbach.ch, accessed on March 28, 2020 .
- ↑ General information about the quarter. gaebelbach.ch, accessed on March 28, 2020 .
- ↑ overbuilding Gäbelbach. siedlungen-buempliz.ch, accessed on March 28, 2020 .
- ↑ Holenacker. Bärn isch eso, accessed on March 28, 2020 .
- ↑ Homepage. Quartierverein Holenacker, accessed on March 28, 2020 .
- ↑ Bern, the city of art, walks. Bethlehe. (Place number 1: village fountain). City of Bern, accessed on March 28, 2020 .
- ↑ Bernese Mittelland - Day 1 - Ristorante Piazza, Bern. SRF , April 17, 2018, accessed on March 28, 2020 .
- ↑ Gäbelbach animal enclosure. zoo-infos.org, accessed March 28, 2020 .
- ↑ Stephanie Jungo: Gäbelbach loses the zoo. Berner Zeitung , February 7, 2020, accessed on March 28, 2020 .
- ^ New construction of the Napoleon Bridge over the Gäbelbach. City of Bern, June 30, 2004, accessed on March 28, 2020 .