Lindenbrunnen (Bern)

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The Lindenbrunnen in the Zeughausgasse in Bern . In the background French church and granary .

The Lindenbrunnen , now also known as the Zeughausgassbrunnen , is located in the Zeughausgasse in the old town of Bern . It belongs to the non-figurative Bernese fountains of the 18th and 19th centuries. Century.

history

The Lindenbrunnen has stood in the design we know today since 1899 and has been in the same location in front of house No. 14 in Zeughausgasse since 1840. - During the renovation in 1983, only the gray tones and gold of the fountain were refreshed and the crowning rocaille vase was replaced with one of the style from 1760.

The origin of the Lindenbrunnes is dated to 1596, when a new fountain with an octagonal basin and a central floor was built next to the old linden tree at the east exit of Neuengasse in today's Waisenhausplatz . A good 60 years later, in 1661, Abraham Dünz gave the fountain a new, square trough and a stick made of Hauterive stone. The Plepp - Merian cityscape around 1638 and the Bern city map by Johann Adam Riediger from 1717 are evidence of the change in the shape of the fountain .

Around 1760 the rectangular fountain basin was renewed and the stock from 1661 was moved to the west of it, after it had been replaced from Stockeren sandstone in 1711/12 and the fountain system was repainted in 1723/24. The stick receives a rocaille vase, similar to the one above the main portal of the Preacher's Church at that time - today's French Church - from 1753 as the crowning glory.

In 1835 the Lindenbrunnen was moved from the confluence of Neuengasse to the opposite side of Waisenhausplatz, in front of the Holländer Tower. Less than 5 years later, in the fountain castling of 1840, the Lindenbrunnen had to give way to the Waisenhausplatz fountain and was moved to its current location in Zeughausgasse, where it replaced the first Zeughausbrunnen built in 1745. The Waisenhausplatz fountain, in turn, had to give way to the Bärenplatz fountain and was moved from the northwest corner of today's Bundesplatz in front of the old casino, in front of the Holländer Tower.

The third and last complete renovation was carried out in 1899. The fountain received a rectangular basin made of limestone with a heavily bulged shell basin deeply grooved under the edge and a stick in the middle, as well as a side trough. The floor consists of a square pedestal with two fountain tubes cast from iron, one above the other. On top of it the old candelabra column from 1661, finely fluted with acanthus chalice at the base, three shaft wreaths and canopy - capital made of yellow Jurassic stone by Abraham Dünz. As a conclusion one is Louis XV - vase used.

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 5. Zeughausgasse, p. 327, 328, 330–331 (467 p., Biblio.unibe.ch [PDF; 68.9 MB ; accessed on March 2, 2018]).
  • Berchtold Weber: Historical-topographical lexicon of the city of Bern. Lindenbrunnen (Places \ Sch \ Schweiz (CH) \ Bern (Canton) \ Bern (BE) \ L) . Ed .: Burgerbibliothek Bern (=  publications of the Berner Burgerbibliothek ). Bern 2016 ( archives-quickaccess.ch [accessed on March 2, 2018]).
  • Berchtold Weber: Historical-topographical lexicon of the city of Bern. Zeughausgassbrunnen (Places \ Sch \ Schweiz (CH) \ Bern (Canton) \ Bern (BE) \ Z) . Ed .: Burgerbibliothek Bern (=  publications of the Berner Burgerbibliothek ). Bern 2016 ( archives-quickaccess.ch [accessed on March 2, 2018]).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bern: City Map (1717) - 1925 (files / dossier / graphics / volume / correspondence). In: katalog.burgerbib.ch. Burgerbibliothek Bern, accessed on March 2, 2018 (Person: Artist Template: Riediger, Johann Adam (1680–1756) - Location: Bern (BE) - Displayed object: City map (1717)).
  2. ^ JH Graf: The cartographer Joh. Adam Riediger (1680–1756) . In: Geographische Gesellschaft von Bern (Hrsg.): Annual report of the Geographische Gesellschaft von Bern . tape 9 . Bern 1888 ( e-periodica.ch [accessed on March 2, 2018]).
  3. ↑ 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 March 2, 2018 .

Coordinates: 46 ° 56 '56.3 "  N , 7 ° 26' 43.8"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred thousand five hundred and twenty-four  /  199,764