Marktgasse (Bern)

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Marktgasse and the Zytgloggenturm

The market street is a historic center of the city of Bern ( Switzerland situated) Street.

location

Marktgasse flows into Spitalgasse in the west, Waisenhausplatz and Waaghausgasse in the northwest , Zeughauspassage and Schützengässchen in the north, Kornhausplatz in the northeast, Bim Zytglogge in the east, Theaterplatz in the southeast , and in to the south the Kaiserhaus-Passage and in the southwest of the Bärenplatz .

history

The first pavement in the alley was made of clay and stone. It turned into a swamp in bad weather. Therefore boardwalks had to be laid along the arbors to use the softened alley floor. The first actual paving of the Marktgasse dates back to 1399. For this purpose, round stones were taken from the Aare . At the same time, the city ​​stream was captured in tubes.

In the late 15th century the street was called "Neuenstadt", this expression was partly used until around 1830. In the lower part of the "Märitgasse" at the height of the old "Krone", the streets stood above the brook until the half of the 15th century lower bread and meat bowl and at the bottom the tannery . Already in the 18th century, the street was called Wybermärit , which referred to the market where women sold their goods (mainly fruit, eggs and vegetables). The name Wybermärit only went out of use in the 20th century, and in 1798 it was used as today's official name Marktgasse (French Rue du Marché ). It was planned to pave the street in 1937, but this was given up in favor of a new paving that was carried out in 1938/1939.

The Anna-Seiler-Brunnen and the Schützenbrunnen are located in Marktgasse .

E-sports

Marktgasse can be visited in the PlayStation 3 game Gran Turismo 5 . The alley is animated with trams, lots of people, a dog and a few fountains.

  • Heraldic animal of the Obergerwern society

  • Heraldic animal of the society to mean lions

  • Schützenbrunnen

  • Anna Seiler Fountain

literature

  • Paul Hofer: The art monuments of the canton of Bern . The city of Bern. Ed .: Society for Swiss Art History (=  Die Kunstdenkmäler der Schweiz . Volume 40 ). tape 2 . Birkhäuser Verlag , Basel 1959, The residential buildings III. The Savoy city of Marktgasse, S. 495 , pp. 383-404 ( unibe.ch [PDF; 65.0 MB ; accessed on February 1, 2018]).
  • Berchtold Weber: Streets and their names. Using the example of the city of Bern. Stämpfli, Bern 1990, ISBN 3-7272-9850-2 .
  • Fridolin Limbach: The beautiful city of Bern. The eventful history of the old "Märit-" or "Meritgasse", today's Gerechtigkeits- und Kramgasse and the old Zähringer town of Bern. Hand prints, drawings, building and house histories, chronicles, old prints, Bern mandates, government decrees and maps. Benteli, Bern 1978, ISBN 3-7165-0273-1 .

Web links

Commons : Marktgasse  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ sequence on youtube , accessed on October 19, 2012.

Coordinates: 46 ° 56 '53 "  N , 7 ° 26' 44"  E ; CH1903:  600 535  /  199,654