Loebegge

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Loebegge

The Loebegge [ˈløːb.ˌɛkə] is a popular and well-known meeting point on the corner of Spitalgasse and Bubenbergplatz in Bern .

Loeb is one of the largest department stores in the city of Bern, "Egge" is the Swiss German word for corner. The Loebegge is located on the corner of the Loeb department store .

The Loebegge was redesigned in autumn 2006 so that the previously publicly accessible corner is now part of the department store. The meeting point in front of the building is still in use. The Loebegge telephone existed until 2007. On this one could call and report a delay. If the wrong person picked up the phone, he called the actual recipient to give him the message.

The Heiliggeistkirche and the Bernmobil stops are nearby .

Signs at Loebegge

On the first pillar of the arcade to Spitalgasse there are three metal plates under a sign with the inscription "Loeb-Egge", the top of which is inscribed as follows:

GEOGRAPHIC COORDINATES OF THE LOEB CORNER
(Corner of Spitalgasse - Christoffelgasse)
7 ° 26 '26 ".6 E longitude of Greenwich
46 ° 56 '51 ".3 north latitude
Sidewalk height: 542.1 m above sea level
Distance from North Pole: 4799.8 km
Distance from the South Pole: 15201.9 km
The distances from the North and South Poles are on the
Earth ellipsoid has been calculated by Bessel.
On the occasion of 100 years of LOEB in March 1981

The second board was put up on the occasion of the exhibition Bern greets Bern in autumn 1981 and shows the distances from Bern in Switzerland to different places called Bern in the USA :

city Country Length w. Greenw. North. width Distance in km
Bern (Loebecke) Switzerland 7 ° 26 '26 " 46 ° 56 '51 "  -
Berne new York 74 ° 08 '20 " 42 ° 37 '40 " 6173
Bernville Pennsylvania 76 ° 06 '40 " 40 ° 26 '00 " 6449
Carlisle / Berne Ohio 81 ° 21 '40 " 39 ° 44 '40 " 6849
Berne Indiana 84 ° 56 '50 " 40 ° 39 '30 " 7020
Berne Minnesota 92 ° 54 '00 " 44 ° 09 '00 " 7259
Bern Idaho 111 ° 23 '00 " 42 ° 21 '00 " 8427
Bern Kansas 95 ° 57 '30 " 39 ° 58 '10 " 7762
New Bern Illinois 90 ° 20 '40 " 39 ° 00 '10 " 7488
New Bern Alabama 87 ° 32 '10 " 32 ° 36 '00 " 7789
New Bern Tennessee 89 ° 16 '00 " 36 ° 06 '40 " 7637
New Bern Virginia 80 ° 41 '40 " 37 ° 04 '20 " 6992
New Bern North Carolina 77 ° 02 '50 " 35 ° 06 '40 " 6878
East Bernstadt Kentucky 84 ° 11 '50 " 37 ° 09 '20 " 7223

The third panel is a "renaming panel" and gives the names of deserving Bernese personalities after whom the Loebegge was temporarily renamed, namely:

from to Surname
September 19, 1996 September 22, 1996 Liselotte Berger-Egge
June 23, 1997 June 25, 1997 Walter Rösli-Egge
April 20, 1998 April 22, 1998 I Salonisti -Egge
September 26, 2002 October 20, 2002 Mani Matter Harrow
April 1, 2005 April 23, 2005 Hans Zurbrügg -Egge

Coordinates: 46 ° 56 '51.4 "  N , 7 ° 26' 26.6"  E ; CH1903:  600160  /  one hundred and ninety-nine thousand six hundred thirteen