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In the foreground the Grosse Moos, the Murten lake and to the right of it the wooded Mont Vully

The Grosse Moos (French: "Grand-Marais") is a part of the Swiss Zealand and lies between the Murten lake , the Broyekanal , the Neuenburgersee , Gampelen , Ins , the Seerücken in front of the Bielersee , the Hagneckkanal , and a ridge between Aarberg and Kerzers . The northern arm of the Rhone Glacier flowed in it during the Ice Age . The area has been swampy since the 17th century, as evidenced by the name Grosses Moos. The drainage into the Aare north of Aarberg was increasingly hampered by bed load deposits from the Aare. As a result of the Jura water corrections , the Grosse Moos has become one of the most important vegetable growing areas in Switzerland. It is also one of the largest plains in Switzerland.

history

The Grosse Moos flooded in November 1950: Lake Neuchâtel in the background

Up until the correction of the Jura waters, the Grosse Moos was an impassable marshland. For centuries it served traveling people such as B. the Yeniche as a place of residence and retreat. The traveling baskets also found the raw material they needed for their work, the willows . Born in 1879 as a descendant of a forcibly assimilated traveler, the Yenish writer Albert Minder spent the first years of his life partly in the Grosse Moos and partly in Bern .

Penal institutions

Bellechasse (1987)

The prisons Bellechasse (FR), Witzwil (BE) and St. Johannsen (BE) are located in the Grosse Moos area . In the Bellechasse asylum, which was founded in 1898, criminals as well as minors and those affected by welfare deprivation of liberty were imprisoned until 1970. The Kinder der Landstrasse relief organization placed a large number of Yenish children who were torn from their parents in this prison.

The St. Johannsen Measures Center, opened in 1883 as a penal institution for men and women , served from 1911 to 1956 as a Kantian labor institution for drinkers, work-shy and dissolute people . This institution still has basketry on sale today , an assortment that was originally manufactured and sold by free Yeniche themselves, later produced by them as so-called “work-shy” inmates on account of the state institutions.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anne-Marie Dubler : Grosses Moos - 3 Jura water corrections and reclamation. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . September 17, 2010 , accessed June 8, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Federal Statistical Office - Catalog of the institutions for deprivation of liberty. (No longer available online.) In: portal-stat.admin.ch. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; accessed on August 12, 2015 .

Coordinates: 46 ° 58 '39.3 "  N , 7 ° 6' 36.3"  E ; CH1903:  575001  /  203000