Bern-Weisses Quartier

Weisses Quartier ; Statistical district of Bern
Coordinates	601 173 / 199 720 coordinates: 46 ° 56 '55 " N , 7 ° 27' 15" O ; CH1903: six hundred and one thousand one hundred seventy-three / 199720
height	496- 534 m
surface	0.1001 km²
Residents	1001 (2019)
Population density	10,000 inhabitants / km²
Proportion of foreigners	15.9% (2019)
Unemployment rate	1.7% (2016)
BFS no.	351002
Post Code	3011
district	Inner City (Bern)

The Weisse Quartier is a statistical district in the old town of Bern . This is geographically identical to District I, Inner City . Together with the Green Quarter , it forms the common Lower Old Town quarter . The white quarter extends from Kreuzgasse to Läuferplatz.

The division and color names go back to the year 1798, when Napoleon's troops divided the city into differently colored quarters for better orientation because there were no street names or the majority of the soldiers were illiterate. That is why bilingual signs were made in the appropriate colors and these names and colors for signs are still used today.

In 2019 there are 1001 inhabitants, 842 of them Swiss and 159 foreigners.

Individual evidence

↑ Interactive city map of the city of Bern (selection under "Topics")
↑ Bern's colored street signs. The clever solution on altstadt.be
↑ Resident population 2019 (PDF, 4.3 MB) City of Bern, March 2020, p. 14 , accessed on March 29, 2020 .

Web links

Commons : Weisses Quartier (Bern) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

[1] Interactive city map of the city of Bern (selection under "Topics")

[2] Bern's colored street signs. The clever solution on altstadt.be

[3] Resident population 2019 (PDF, 4.3 MB) City of Bern, March 2020, p. 14 , accessed on March 29, 2020 .


I: Inner City	Yellow quarters (4) • Green quarters (3) • Red quarters (5) • Black quarters (Matte) (1) • White quarters (2)
II: Länggasse-Felsenau:	Engeried (6 ) • Felsenau (7 ) • Länggasse (9 ) • Muesmatt (11 ) • Neufeld (8 *) • Stadtbach (10)
III: Mattenhof-Weissenbühl :	Holligen (12 *) • Mattenhof (14) • Monbijou (15) • Sandrain (17) • Weissenbühl (16) • Weissenstein (13)
IV: Kirchenfeld-Schosshalde :	Beundenfeld (23) • Brunnadern (20) • Gryphenhübeli (19) • Kirchenfeld (18) • Murifeld (21 *) • Schosshalde (22)
V: Breitenrain-Lorraine :	Altenberg (24 ) • Breitenrain (27 ) • Breitfeld (26 ) • Lorraine (28 ) • Spitalacker (25 *)
VI: Bümpliz-Oberbottigen :	Bethlehem (32) • Bümpliz (29) • Oberbottigen (30) • Stöckacker (31 *)


Black Quarters (mat) (1)	Matte (quartier) (101) (identical)
White Quarter (2) Green Quarter (3)	Lower Old Town (102)
Yellow Quarters (4) Red Quarters (5)	Upper Old Town (103)