Herrengassbrunnen

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Herrengassbrunnen in the Herrengasse in Bern

The Herrengassbrunnen stands in front of the Herrengasse 23 building in the old town of Bern and is one of the non-figurative Bernese fountains of the 18th and 19th centuries. Century.

history

Since the middle of the 18th century, the Herrengassbrunnen in the design we know today has stood in the same place in front of the Von-Wattenwyl-Haus in Herrengasse.

In the 15th century, a water well was first handed down on the square , but nothing is known about its design. Around 200 years later it is mentioned that the fountain system was given a new floor and a large stone basin in 1636 by the Bernese foreman Joseph Plepp , and that it was connected to the drinking water pipe at that time and thus became a running fountain .

With the exception of the painting from 1667/68, it is only known again from the Herrengassbrunnen that the two simple rectangular troughs preserved on the spot were erected in 1740 and 1749 and replaced the previous basin. With the basin of the Kindlifresserbrunnen , which was built around 1690/1700, the two rectangular, well-proportioned basins are among the oldest well-preserved basins in Bern. The cane on the west side with a smooth, square pedestal with twin fountain tubes cast from iron on the east side and on top of it a smooth column with a vase as a concluding fountain sculpture made of yellow Jurassic limestone probably also belong to the middle of the 18th century . The estate of the architect Erasmus Ritter with similar fountain projects and the spatial proximity of his conversion of the Von-Wattenwyl-Haus suggest that he was the last foreman of the execution known today, but there is no concrete evidence.

It is also known from the time that the Weibel proclaimed the Martini market at Herrengassbrunnen until 1747 .

Drinking water

The drinking water network of Energie Wasser Bern ewb supplies the well with drinking water , the quality of which is regularly checked.

literature

  • Paul Hofer : The art monuments of the canton of Bern. The city of Bern - cityscape · fortifications · city gates · installations · monuments · bridges · city fountains · hospitals · orphanages. Ed .: Society for Swiss Art History (=  Die Kunstdenkmäler der Schweiz . Volume 28 ). tape 1 . Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1952, Die Stadtbrunnen III. Non-figurative fountains from the 18th / 19th centuries Century In the lower town 10. Herrengasse, S. 334–335 , p. 335: Fig. 255. Herrengassbrunnen (467 p., Biblio.unibe.ch [PDF; 68.9 MB ; accessed on February 8, 2018]).
  • Berchtold Weber: Historical-topographical lexicon of the city of Bern. Herrengassbrunnen (Places \ Sch \ Schweiz (CH) \ Bern (Canton) \ Bern (BE) \ H) . Ed .: Burgerbibliothek Bern (=  publications of the Berner Burgerbibliothek ). Bern 2016 ( archives-quickaccess.ch [accessed on February 8, 2018]).

Web links

Commons : Herrengassbrunnen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johanna Strübin Rindisbacher: Plepp, Joseph. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . October 19, 2010 , accessed February 8, 2018 . " 1634–42 Bernese foreman on the church and stone works "
  2. ↑ Drinking water quality. The quality of drinking water in the city of Bern is checked regularly. In: bern.ch. Information service of the City of Bern, November 17, 2015, accessed on February 8, 2018 .

Coordinates: 46 ° 56 '49.3 "  N , 7 ° 26' 57.9"  E ; CH1903:  600.82 thousand  /  one hundred ninety-nine thousand five hundred fifty-one