Brunngasse
The Brunngasse is a semi-circular road in the north of the old town of Bern . The earliest documented mention comes from the year 1349, as a Latin term vicus fontis . The area in the north of the Zähringer town was probably won around 1250 by backfilling the terrain, which slopes steeply towards the Aare. The Brunngasse is named after the Stettbrunnen . The fountain is now north of Rathausgasse 16/18.
history
Brunngasse is one of the few streets in the city that has not changed its course or name in its centuries-old history. It is flanked by numerous houses and facilities that are important for Bern's history. The eponymous Stettbrunnen was first mentioned in 1377 and was roofed early on. Until 1848 the basins were made of wood, in 1855 the Stettbrunnen received a stone wall. In the Brunngasse the painter Sigmund Holbein owned "House of Courtyard and Garden", which, along with valuable household items, he gave to his nephew Hans Holbein the Elder after his death . J. bequeathed.
Historic houses
- House Brunngasse 48
- Salt chamber
The Bern salt chamber was located here from 1642 to 1798. In 1834 the maternity hospital , Bern's first institution of its kind, moved into the building that had been rebuilt a year earlier. In 1876 the maternity hospital was moved to today's women's hospital.
- House Brunngasse 66
- Resident Girls School
The house housed the residents' girls school, founded in 1836, which covered all levels from kindergarten to seminar. It was named the Fröhlich School after its long-time director Gustav Fröhlich (1811–1873) and merged with the municipal girls' school in 1880.
- House Brunngasse 68
- Wretched hostel
The brothers Rudolf and Heinrich Seiler donated the house as a pilgrimage hostel in 1395/96 . The facade was painted by Heinrich Büchler in 1466 . The Elendenherberge was closed in 1531 and the property was transferred to the Obern Spital .
- House Brunngasse 70
- Apiarius house
The first printing house in Bern was set up by Matthias Apiarius in 1537. He ran the printing workshop and a bookbinding shop with his sons Samuel and Siegfried and temporarily employed other journeymen. The Offizin was 1565, after Siegfried's death Bendicht Ulmann taken. The current building dates from the end of the 17th century; the memorial plaque on the house is from 1937.
- House Brunngasse 72
- Spinning mill
The semi-private, charitable institution was founded in 1785. She provided home spinners with work and supported their families. The spinning mill was closed at the end of the 19th century.
Web links
- Platform for art, culture and society: Page no longer available , search in web archives: Bern, Brunngasse History of Brunngasse and all the individual houses there
Individual evidence
- ^ Berchtold Weber: Historical-topographical lexicon of the city of Bern . 1976
- ↑ Roland Gerber: God is Burger in Bern. A late medieval urban society between the formation of power and social balance (= research on medieval history. Vol. 39). Böhlaus successor, Weimar 2001, ISBN 3-7400-1163-7 , p. 84.
- ↑ Bern - Brunngasse on g26.ch ( Memento from October 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Hans Reinhardt: Holbein, Sigmund. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , pp. 520 f. ( Digitized version ).
Coordinates: 46 ° 56 '56.1 " N , 7 ° 26' 57.9" E ; CH1903: 600821 / 199 761