Crown fountain

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The Crown Fountain in the vernacular as Lischetti Fountain known

The Kronenbrunnen , also known as the Oberer Postgassbrunnen , Kanzleybrunnen or colloquially as the Lischetti fountain , is located in front of the Postgasse 70 house below the Bern town hall in the old town of Bern . It belongs to the non-figurative Bernese fountains of the 18th and 19th centuries. Century. Together with the Maybrunnen it is one of the two wells in Postgasse that are in operation.

history

Since 1820-25 the Kronenbrunnen has stood in the design we know today - with the exception of the fountain installation by Carlo E. Lischetti - at the same location behind the Gasthof zur Krone, which gave it its name, in Postgasse in front of the corner pillar of the arcade of the Bern State Chancellery. - The Postgasse was officially called Hormansgasse or Hormatsgasse until 1798 and was also called that way well into the 19th century. The Postgasse is the eastern, lower part of the Hormansgasse or Hormatsgasse , the western, upper part is the Rathausgasse, formerly Metzgergasse.

It is not known when the crown fountain was built. In 1732 the first evidence of a fountain in the corner of the State Chancellery on Postgasse is available. Shortly beforehand, the system had received a new basin made of Stockerensandstein and should probably correspond to the fountain “on the hormadsgassen”. The fountain was renewed twice, in 1743–1745 in the same way as the Metzgerngassbrunnen, which was built at the same time and no longer exists today, and in 1820–1825 when the entire system was replaced one last time.

This last version is the only one in the style of high classicism in the old town of Bern. It consists of a side trough, main basin and stick aligned on an axis in the longitudinal direction of the alley. The stick with the cast iron fountain tube is a square trimmings on it a square pillar with a protruding cover plate and a fluted column stump as a conclusion. To the east of the floor stands the rectangular basin with re-entrant circles at the corners, at a distance on a base plate with re-entrant circles at the corners. Then the side trough. The whole system is made of white Jura limestone .

Instead of a fountain figure

In 1992 the Bernese artist Carlo E. Lischetti was able to install an iron staircase with a pedestal and railing on the fountain, despite the objection of the association “Heit Sorg zu Bärn” against his fountain sculpture. Since then, the Kronenbrunnen has also been known as the Lischetti Fountain and everyone can stage themselves as a living fountain figure.

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 13./14. Postgasse, S. 336–337 (467 pp., Biblio.unibe.ch [PDF; 68.9 MB ; accessed on February 22, 2018]).
  • Berchtold Weber: Historical-topographical lexicon of the city of Bern. Kronenbrunnen (Places \ Sch \ Schweiz (CH) \ Bern (Canton) \ Bern (BE) \ K) . Ed .: Burgerbibliothek Bern (=  publications of the Berner Burgerbibliothek ). Bern 2016 ( archives-quickaccess.ch [accessed on February 22, 2018]).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Berchtold Weber: Historical-topographical lexicon of the city of Bern. K Hormansgasse (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 22, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Rahel Bucher: As a fountain figure in the present - at the Postgassbrunnen there is "no fountain figure" - or always another one. Because the work of Carlo E. Lischetti still challenges people today to take a stand. In: derbund.ch . Tamedia , August 16, 2010, accessed on February 22, 2018 : "Despite an objection from the" Heit Sorg zu Bärn "association, Lischetti was able to realize the speaker platform ... in 1992."
  3. ↑ Willi Wottreng: Help for the brownies. In: nzz.ch . Aktiengesellschaft für die Neue Zürcher Zeitung, December 25, 2005, accessed on February 22, 2018 : “In 1992 he was able to design a fountain on Postgasse: He led up a staircase to the stone fountain column, on which there is no fountain figure as is usually the case in Bern's old town all over. Everyone can now pose as a historical figure ... "
  4. ↑ 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 22, 2018 .

Coordinates: 46 ° 56 '55.1 "  N , 7 ° 27' 10.7"  E ; CH1903:  601091  /  199,729