Berna (personification)
Berna is the personification of the Swiss city of Bern or the canton of the same name . Like other early cantonal allegories and the entire federal allegory Helvetia , the Berna is documented as early as the second half of the 17th century. B. on a painting by Bern artist Joseph Werner from 1682. The depictions of Berna show her with the coat of arms of Bern and also often with a weapon such as a sword or a lance. The Berna can also be seen on medals, especially in the 18th and 19th centuries.
The fountain , which was erected at the Federal Palace in 1858 , was decorated with a statue of Berna in 1863.
René de Saint-Marceaux's 1903 design for the Universal Post Memorial was accepted after adding a Berna, so that it is still part of the monument on the Kleiner Schanze that was inaugurated in 1909 .
There is a Bernastrasse in Bern and Interlaken.
Berna as part of the Universal Post Memorial
literature
- U. Friedländer: Swiss medals from an old private collection. With an introduction to the history of medals by Dietrich WHSchwarz. Zurich 1989.
- Dario Gamboni, Georg Germann (ed.): Signs of freedom. The image of the republic in the art of the 16th to 18th centuries. 21st art exhibition of the Council of Europe 1991, Bernisches Historisches Museum and Kunstmuseum Bern, June 1 to September 15, 1991. Stämpfli, Bern 1991, ISBN 3-7272-9185-0 .
- Thomas Maissen : The Birth of the Republic. Understanding of the state and representation in the early modern Confederation (= historical semantics. Vol. 4). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-525-36706-6 (also: Zürich, Univ., Habil.-Schr., 2001).
- Johann Jakob Leitzmann (ed.): Numismatic newspaper: sheets for coin, coat of arms and seal customer . No. 4 in the 38th year, 1871