Mannenberg (Ittigen)
| Mannenberg | ||
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 The Mannenberg at Habstettenstrasse in Bolligen |
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| height | 688 m above sea level M. | |
| location | Canton of Bern , Switzerland | |
| Dominance | 0.5 km → Schwarzchopf | |
| Notch height | 58 m ↓ slip | |
| Coordinates | 603468 / 203659 | |
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The Mannenberg is a wooded hill west of the Grauholz hill range . It is 688 m above sea level. M. the highest point in the municipality of Ittigen BE.
location
The narrow valley cut “Schlupf” with the road from Habstetten to Grauholzstrasse separates Mannenberg from Grauholz. At the western foot lies the Kappelisacker residential area and the village of Ittigen on the southern sunny slope.
buildings
From 1965 to 1970, during excavation work on the Zulligerstrasse and the Quellenrain in Ittigen, underground passages were discovered, whereby these are former spring catchments from the 16th and 17th centuries. Century acts.
Quarry stones were extracted for the foundation walls of old buildings in Ittigen in the former quarry on Mannenberg. It was abandoned in the 19th century because of competition from the industrially operated, nearby Stockeren quarry.
The water reservoir of the city of Bern on the Mannenberg, built between 1904 and 1906, with the then newly developed mushroom cover based on plans by Robert Maillart , is a monument worthy of protection. The reservoir, which was expanded between 1932 and 1933, with five large collecting basins, has a usable volume of 26,700 cubic meters. The best drinking water is conveyed from the well shafts in the Emmental from a height of 690 m here at 620 m and with a 100 m gradient to Bern to the main distribution lines.
swell
- Gerhart Wagner in Hans Gugger : Ittigen, a young community with an ancient history. Ittigen municipality 1998, ISBN 3-7272-9277-6 .
- Karl Ludwig Schmalz , Bolligen, local history, The Stockeren. Municipality of Bolligen 1982, ISBN 3-7272-9679-8 .
