Erlacherhof
The Erlacherhof is a late baroque city palace at Junkerngasse 47 in the middle of the old town of Bern . It was owned by the Counts of Erlach .
history
It was built between 1745 and 1752 instead of two houses, one of which (the Hoftstatt ) once belonged to the Adrian I von Bubenberg family, presumably by Albrecht Stürler for Hieronymus von Erlach . Since both the alleged master builder and the builder died in 1748, the building was subsequently completed by his son Albrecht Friedrich von Erlach and probably with the help of the sculptor Johann August Nahl (the elder) . Albrecht Friedrich had his father's monogram (HvE) affixed to the gable panels of the side wings .
In 1795 the Erlacherhof came to the butcher Albrecht Hegi and the merchant David Rudolf Bay and after the fall of the Bernese patriciate in 1798 it was the headquarters of the French general Guillaume-Marie-Anne Brune . During the mediation period , the building served as a school for the Matte district and was then the seat of the French embassy until 1831 . From 1848 to 1857 the offices of the Federal Council were housed here. Since then, the Erlacherhof has housed parts of the Bern municipal administration such as the presidential office and city chancellery, as well as the municipal council chamber and is, not least, the seat of the Bern city president .
The Erlacherhof is considered to be Bern's most representative patrician seat. In his Deliciae urbis Bernae , published in 1732, Johann Rudolf Gruner wrote about it:
"This year Colonel Albrecht Friedrich von Erlach, Herr zu Hindelbank , demolished his Sässhaus on Junkerngasse near Hofstatt, the old Bubenberg and Erlachhaus and started building a magnificent palace there with a precious terrace of high walls."
The Erlacherhof is the only house in Bern's old town to have a courtyard of honor , which is closed off by a splendid iron grille facing Junkerngasse. A covered arcade is in front of this court of honor, which should enable a carriage to be approached , which was unusual in buildings of this type. The reason for this was the consistent enforcement of the Bern legislation, which demanded that every landowner must guarantee a covered, dry passage through the city. The vestibule leads to a large staircase with a horseshoe staircase , which is elevated by a gallery with free-standing columns. The ceiling painting shows the triumph of Cupid and is attributed to the painter Johann Ulrich Schnetzler . Behind the main building there is a heaped garden terrace that is tunnelled under.
literature
- Ueli Bellwald (ed.): The Erlacherhof in Bern - building history, restoration, tour. Bern 1980, ISBN 3-7272-9051-X .
- Bernhard Furrer : The Erlacherhof in Bern. (Swiss Art Guide, No. 350). Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 2006, ISBN 978-3-85782-350-1 .
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Erlacherhof. City of Bern, accessed on July 31, 2017 .
- ↑ Pierre Felder, Helmut Meyer, et al .: Switzerland and its history . 1st edition. Lehrmittelverlag des Kantons Zürich, Zürich 1998, ISBN 3-906719-96-0 , p. 218 f .
Coordinates: 46 ° 56 ′ 51 " N , 7 ° 27 ′ 13" E ; CH1903: 601140 / 199602