Munster platform
The Münsterplattform ( berndt. Also Pläfe [plæfə] ) is a the Bern Cathedral upstream rectangular terrace on the slope to the Aare .
The square lies parallel to the nave, is 66 to 70 meters deep and measures 85 m in width at the northern end at the church wall and 86 m at the southern end towards the Aare. At the southeast corner it rises 31.5 m above the Badgasse below.
The foundation stone for the terrace was laid in 1334, but the construction of the retaining walls was not completed until 1514; The minster foreman Erhart Küng played a key role in this . Until the Bern Reformation of 1528, the filling of the square behind the retaining walls was not yet completed; it was still 14 m below today's level and formed a dump. During excavation work on the cathedral platform in 1986, the Bern sculpture was found , a spectacular find of statues of saints that had been removed from the cathedral during the iconoclasm and thrown onto the rubble dump.
The platform served as a cemetery until 1531 and then as a park. It is surrounded by balustrades made of sandstone and becomes the Aare towards complete two corner pavilions. Until the 18th century it was planted with linden trees and then with horse chestnuts .
From 1847 to 1961 was on the platform that since 1968 Nydegghöfli in Nydeggkirche established Zähringer Monument . The Mattenlift , an electric passenger elevator , has been connecting the platform to the Matte district on the Aare since 1897 .
On the southern balustrade there is a memorial plaque for the student Theobald Weinzäpfli, who survived a fall from his horse over the wall of the platform on May 23, 1654 and died in 1694 as pastor of Kerzers .
Before the attachment of safety nets in 1998, numerous people committed suicide by jumping from the cathedral platform in Badgasse. In the early 1980s, was the location of the platform in 1985 to the Kleine Schanze shifted open drug scene .
In a lawn of the Münster platform is the "Münster platform", a work by the Bernese artist Carlo E. Lischetti .
Badgasse around 1830
Münster platform today
Münster platform on the Münster platform
See also
Web links
- Bern - Platform Münster platform Pläfe. ( Memento from October 9, 2011 in the web archive archive.today ) Information on the Münster platform at: g26.ch.
Coordinates: 46 ° 56 ′ 48 " N , 7 ° 27 ′ 7" E ; CH1903: six hundred and one thousand and thirteen / 199 509