List of sights in the city of Bern

The list of sights in the city of Bern shows the sights of the Swiss federal city.

Legend

• Building: gives the name of the building.
• District: Indicates the district in which the building is located.
• Year of construction: states the year of construction, if necessary also in today's form.
• Image: Shows a picture of the building.

Note: The list can be sorted: by clicking on a column header, the list is sorted according to this column, clicking twice reverses the sorting. Any desired combination can be achieved by clicking two columns in a row.

table

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building	district	Year of construction	image
Bern railway station	Länggasse-Felsenau	1974
Wave of Bern	Länggasse-Felsenau	December 12, 2004
Big hill	Länggasse-Felsenau	1634
University of Bern	Länggasse-Felsenau	1834
Bahnhofplatz Bern	Länggasse-Felsenau	May 31, 2008
Holy Spirit Church	Inner city	1726-1729
Hirschengraben	Mattenhof-Weissenbühl	1877
Small hill	Mattenhof-Weissenbühl	1623
Trinity Church	Mattenhof-Weissenbühl	1896-1899
Marzili Railway	Mattenhof-Weissenbühl	July 18, 1885
Marzilibad	Mattenhof-Weissenbühl	1782
Bundeshaus	Inner city	1852-1857
Bundesplatz	Inner city	1902
Cage tower	Inner city	1641-1644
Dutch tower	Inner city	1256
Zytglogge	Inner city	1218-1220
Kornhaus	Inner city	1711-1715
City Theater Bern	Inner city	1903
French Church	Inner city	approx. 1270 - 1280
Kornhausbrücke	Inner city / Breitenrain-Lorraine	January 13, 1895
Lorraine Bridge	Inner city / Breitenrain-Lorraine	1928-1930
Blood tower	Inner city	1335
Botanical Garden	Breitenrain-Lorraine	1862
Art museum and art history seminar	Inner city	1876-1878
Culture casino	Inner city	1906-1908
Einstein House	Inner city	k. A.
Zähringer fountain	Inner city	1535
Church of St. Peter and Paul	Inner city	1858--1864
City Hall and State Chancellery	Inner city	1406-1415
Muenster	Inner city	1421
Munster platform	Inner city	1334
Erlacherhof	Inner city	1745-1752
Nydegg Church	Inner city	1341-1346
Nydegg Bridge	Inner city / Kirchenfeld-Schosshalde	1840
Untertorbrücke	Inner city / Kirchenfeld-Schosshalde	1461
Bear pit	Kirchenfeld-Schosshalde	1857
rose Garden	Kirchenfeld-Schosshalde	1913
Kirchenfeldbrücke	Inner city / Kirchenfeld-Schosshalde	September 24, 1883
Helvetiaplatz	Kirchenfeld-Schosshalde	September 24, 1882
historical Museum	Kirchenfeld-Schosshalde	1892-1894
Swiss Alpine Museum	Kirchenfeld-Schosshalde	1933
naturehistorical Museum	Kirchenfeld-Schosshalde	1932-1934
Museum of Communication	Kirchenfeld-Schosshalde	1990
Art Gallery	Kirchenfeld-Schosshalde	1917-1918
Swiss National Library	Kirchenfeld-Schosshalde	1931
Bern old town	Inner city
City Archives	Kirchenfeld-Schosshalde	November 2, 2009
Monastery building	Inner city	1427-1435
Tscharnerhaus	Inner city	1733-1735
Row of houses in Kramgasse	Inner city	between 1650 and 1700
Row of houses on Gerechtigkeitsgasse	Inner city	k. A.
Hotel de Musique ( Cafe du Théâtre )	Inner city	1770
Béatrice-von-Wattenwyl-Haus ( Frischinghaus )	Inner city	1690
Upper May House (with bay window )	Inner city	1515
Burgerkanzlei (garden view from Kochergasse)	Inner city	1514-1515
Burgerspital	Inner city	1742
Wittigkofen Castle	Kirchenfeld-Schosshalde	Mid 13th century
Kirchenfeld residential area	Kirchenfeld-Schosshalde	k. A.
Neubrügg	Länggasse-Felsenau / Kirchlindach	1534-1535
Hauptwache	Inner city	1766-1767
Trade school	Breitenrain-Lorraine	April 1939
University Psychiatric Clinic	Kirchenfeld-Schosshalde	1911-1913
Cantonal barracks	Breitenrain-Lorraine	1873-1878
Moated castle	Kirchenfeld-Schosshalde	1881
Pfeiferbrunnen	Inner city	1545-1546
Ryffli Fountain	Inner city	1545
Anna Seiler Fountain	Inner city	1545-1546
Schützenbrunnen	Inner city	1527
Child eater fountain	Inner city	1545-1546
Samson Fountain	Inner city	1527
Moses well	Inner city	1544
Kreuzgassbrunnen	Inner city	1666
Venner fountain	Inner city	1542
Well of Justice	Inner city	1543
Runner fountain	Inner city	1545
Glass fountain	Länggasse-Felsenau	outgoing MA
University library and burger library	Inner city	1528-1535
State Archives of the Canton of Bern	Länggasse-Felsenau	1803
Federal Archives	Kirchenfeld-Schosshalde	1896-1899
Federal mint	Kirchenfeld-Schosshalde	1906
Federal Archives for the Preservation of Monuments	Kirchenfeld-Schosshalde	circa 1885
Swiss theater collection	Länggasse-Felsenau	1978
Celtic oppidum and Roman vicus	Länggasse-Felsenau	k. A.
Town hall to the outer stand	Inner city	1731
Ghost house Bern	Inner city	k. A.

literature

• The art monuments of Switzerland: The art monuments of the canton of Bern. City of Bern:
  • Paul Hofer : The city of Bern. 2 volumes, Birkhäuser, Basel 1952–1959
  • Paul Hofer: The state buildings of the city of Bern. Unchanged reprint with addenda by Georges Herzog, Birkhäuser, Basel 1982
  • Paul Hofer and Luc Mojon: The churches of the city of Bern. Birkhäuser, Basel 1969
  • Luc Mojon: The Bern Minster. Birkhäuser, Basel 1960
• Bernhard Furrer : The city of Bern . Swiss Art Guide GSK, Bern 1994, ISBN 3-85782-553-7 ; Page no longer available , search in web archives: Online

See also

• List of cultural assets in the city of Bern

Web links

• Brief portraits of the historic buildings in the canton of Bern, which are included in the federal inventory of Swiss cultural assets as cat. A (objects of national importance).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} first mentioned in a document
2. ↑ Albert Einstein lived in the house from 1903 to 1905
3. ↑ In 1859 the whole quarter was built over