Herrengasse (Bern)

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The Herrengasse from the casino to the cathedral
Bern Herrengasse 1882

The Herrengasse forms part of the UNESCO -protected old town of Bern and has existed since the city was founded under different names.

location

Herrengasse is located in the lower old town of Bern. It begins in the west at Casinoplatz and ends in the south with the Fricktreppe at Münsterplatz. The houses on the south side are on the Aare slope, eaves facing the alley. It runs south parallel to Münstergasse.

history

Herrengasse was first mentioned as vicus de Egerdon in 1312 and as Herrengaß von Egerdon in 1316, before it was given its current name in the 16th century. A house, presumably built by Schultheiss Burkard von Egerdon in 1256, was sold by Heinrich von Egerdon on November 19, 1271. At the lower, eastern end of the street there was the monastery in Reuental and the Teutonic Order House until the secular canon monastery was founded in 1485 . At the upper western end, the alley met the Barfüsserkloster and the Schulgässchen. After the Reformation, the Franciscan monastery became the new Latin school and the Schulgässchen, which was built in 1577, after the construction of the university library, to the library street. When the casino was built in place of the university in 1905 , Herrengasse was continuously extended to the new casino square.

The old Latin school from 1577 on the upper Herrengasse housed the university library after the construction of the grammar school on Waisenhausplatz (1885) until 1903. The building was demolished in 1906

Houses

In addition to some traditional wood construction town houses preserved, dominate the south side of the 1762-1764 Erasmus Ritter remodeled Von-Wattenwyl House and at the junction to the Cathedral Square, designed by Albrecht Stürler for Beat Jakob Tscharner built Tscharnerhaus . Abraham Ahasver von Tscharner had the adjacent houses demolished between 1756 and 1764 and, presumably, Niklaus Sprüngli had today's house number 4 built. Opposite are the assembled minster parsonages with numbers 3, 5, 9 and 13. Since 1906, the upper end has been the casino, which was built as a late baroque, classicist concert and social building. In the opposite building there is on the one hand the Münstergasse library , which has existed since it was founded around 1535 and was extensively rebuilt by the civic community of Bern from 2014 to 2016 , as the oldest department of the university library , and on the other hand the civic library .

Fountain

In front of the Von-Wattenwyl-Haus is the Herrengassbrunnen in the middle of the street . He was a 15th-century Sodbrunnen used and in 1636 to the drinking water line connected. The existing basins are from the years 1740 and 1749. The fountain column with the vase is attributed to Erasmus Ritter.

local residents

The writer Klaus Schädelin , the author of the book for young people, Mein Name ist Eugen, lived on Herrengasse . The protagonists of his book, Eugen and Wrigley, also live on Herrengasse.

The later CIA -Director Allen Dulles lived during the Second World War , from 1942 in the Von-Wattenwyl House at Herrengasse 23 and took from there his duties as OSS - Agent was.

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ UNESCO World Heritage PDF
  2. ↑ Art Monuments of Switzerland , page 337
  3. ↑ KGS 742
  4. ^ Berchtold Weber: Historical-topographical lexicon of the city of Bern . 2016
  5. ↑ Orell Füssli
  6. ^ Mathias Bäbler: A complex building with an eventful past. (PDF; 2 MB) Houses of the Burgergemeinde (7): the Von-Wattenwyl-Haus at Herrengasse 23. In: Medaillon - information organ of the Burgergemeinde Bern. Burgergemeinde Bern , May 2008, p. 16 , accessed on February 7, 2018 .

Coordinates: 46 ° 56 '49.4 "  N , 7 ° 26' 58.2"  E ; CH1903:  600827  /  199552