Gurten (mountain)

Gird
	View of Bern
height	858 m above sea level M.
location	Koeniz , Canton of Bern , Switzerland
Dominance	1.6 km → Ulmizberg
Notch height	215 m ↓ Köniztal
Coordinates	600379 / 196236 coordinates: 46 ° 55 '2 " N , 7 ° 26' 37" O ; CH1903: 600379 / 196236

Located in the municipality of Köniz , Gurten (colloquially «Güsche») is the local mountain of the city of Bern and a popular excursion destination.

Offers and events

The Hotel Gurten Kulm and the park in the green of the Gurten, which belong to Migros , can be reached on foot from Wabern , Köniz or Kehrsatz, as well as with the Gurtenbahn . A mountain bike downhill route has existed for a number of years , leading from the mountain to the valley station of the Gurtenbahn.

A garden train with a track width of 7 1/4 inches (184 mm) and a track length of approx. 600 meters runs on the large playground . The cable car operates daily from mid-March to the end of October, weather permitting. Usually a train runs with an electric locomotive, and the cogwheel railway also runs on Wednesdays and Saturdays / Sundays. A steam train also runs on Sundays. There are a total of 7 steam locomotives and 10 electric locomotives. (Partly in private ownership) All locomotives are never in use because there is no correspondingly large depot and some machines have been parked with damage. On the Güschi-Weg , children can experience the local animals with the Jimmy Flitz mouse .

Since 1991, one of the largest and most traditional open-air festival takes place here every year in Switzerland instead, the Gurten Festival , since 2002 every two years and an open air theater ( Theater belts ).

Until 2019, the city of Bern's fireworks were lit on the Gurten on August 1st .

The belt tower , built in 2000, offers a panoramic view from the Bernese Alps in the south to the Jura in the north.

In 2016 a summer toboggan run was opened on the Gurten.

The Gurten is (next to the Bantiger, Belpberg, Bütschelegg and Ulmizberg) one of the mountains in the Bernese area to which the Berner Berglaufcoup ("Bärner Bärgloufcoup") leads. The 2018 run will be held on the Gurten for the fifth time from August 6th to 10th, the first stage is a 3.6 km long ascent, with 310 meters of altitude being overcome.

additional

The Gurten Garden City lies at the foot of the Gurten .

The Gurten beer is named after the Gurten and was previously brewed here (since 2011 by Feldschlösschen).

history

In the 13th century, the castle and ancestral seat of the von Aegert family was located on the southern part of the Gurtens . Remnants of the residential tower were still preserved until 1674. Today only parts of the foundations are visible.

A license for a year-round restaurant was granted in 1866. In 1925, a slim majority of the citizens of Bern decided to buy the Gurtenwiese. Until 1959, a golf course was operated on the site, which was not allowed to be entered by outsiders. In the same year, a driving ban for cars was introduced, to which, however, numerous exceptions apply.