Bernoullianum

Bernoullianum, front with an outside staircase

View from the bus stop

The Bernoullianum is a listed department building of the University of Basel . It houses several university institutions, including geology , environmental geosciences, and the Imaging and Media Lab. At the Bernoullianum there is also a weather station from MeteoSwiss , which often measures national maximum temperatures in summer. The Basler transporting enterprises operate a same bus stop at the building.

Named after the Bernoulli family of mathematicians , the University of Basel's first special building for natural sciences was built between 1872 and 1874 for the 400th anniversary of natural sciences at the university and replaced rooms in the museum on Augustinergasse . Its architect was Johann Jakob Stehlin the Younger . 1957-1960 it was expanded and rebuilt inside.

The building stands on the area of ​​the former “Wasenbulwerk” from 1530, which became vacant after the city walls were demolished in 1859. As a former institute for physics, chemistry and astronomy, it housed the Basel observatory until 1928 , as the dome on its roof shows. A flight of stairs at the front of the monumental building leads into the auditorium, which is designed for popular lectures and has around 500 seats.

Thanks to Hans Zickendraht , the Bernoullianum hosted the first Swiss radio broadcast in 1923 to demonstrate radio reception to visitors to the Basel sample fair .

literature

• Othmar Birkner, Hanspeter Rebsamen: Basel, Bellinzona, Bern. (= Inventory of newer Swiss architecture . Vol. 2). Orell Füssli, Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-280-01716-5 , p. 132.
• Dorothee Huber: Architecture Guide Basel. The building history of the city and its surroundings. Architekturmuseum, Basel 1993, p. 207.
• Dorothee Huber, Christian Simon , Willem B. Stern: The Bernoullianum: House of Sciences for Basel . 190th New Year's Gazette of the GGG . Schwabe, Basel 2011, ISBN 978-3-7965-2784-5 .

Web links

Commons : Bernoullianum  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Institute for Geology and Paleontology at the University of Basel
• Institute for Environmental Geosciences at the University of Basel
• Imaging and Media Lab at the University of Basel
• The Bernoullianum - history of an extraordinary university building, university history University of Basel

Coordinates: 47 ° 33 '37.8 "  N , 7 ° 34' 50.4"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred ten thousand six hundred ninety-one  /  267 763

Individual evidence

1. ↑ old Basel: 1923, radio broadcast. Retrieved August 5, 2019 .