Dutch tower

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The Holländer Tower is a tower of the old city fortifications on Waisenhausplatz in the old town of Bern .

The Dutch tower was built around 1256 as a defensive tower , it was part of the third defensive belt, to which the cage tower also belonged. When the fourth defensive belt with the Christoffelturm was created in 1345 , this diminished the military importance of the third defensive belt. In 1530 the buildings of the third defense belt were released for civil use. The Dutch tower housed a blacksmith and armory for many years. The Dutch tower got its name because Bernese officers in Dutch service came to this tower to indulge in tobacco consumption. They did this to be safe from uninvited bystanders, because tobacco smoking was still forbidden in Bern at that time.

At first the tower was still called the Raucherthurm , it was not until 1896 that the name Holländerurm was first mentioned. In 1885 the tower was renovated for the first time on the occasion of the Federal Rifle Festival. Six years later, in 1891, the exterior of the tower room was refreshed for the celebration of the 700th anniversary of the city of Bern. The last renovation to date was carried out in 1939.

gallery

  • The Dutch tower around 1851

  • The Dutch Tower 2006

literature

  • Markus F. Rubli: Holländer Tower Bern. The creation of the city of Bern in pictures. With a sheet of images by Michael von Graffenried and reconstruction drawings by Arthur Nydegger, Bern 1996, ISBN 3-7165-1041-6 .
  • 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, The Defense Buildings - Preserved inventory 1952 West endings Holländer Tower, p. 167–169 (467 pp., Biblio.unibe.ch [PDF; 68.9 MB ; accessed on March 1, 2018]).
  • Berchtold Weber: Historical-topographical lexicon of the city of Bern. Holländer Tower (Places \ Sch \ Schweiz (CH) \ Bern (Canton) \ Bern (BE) \ H) . Ed .: Burgerbibliothek Bern (=  publications of the Berner Burgerbibliothek ). Bern 2016 ( archives-quickaccess.ch [accessed on March 1, 2018]).

Web links

Commons : Holländer Tower  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files


Coordinates: 46 ° 56 '55.2 "  N , 7 ° 26' 38.3"  E ; CH1903:  600407  /  199731