Neuengasse
The new lane is in the city of Bern ( Switzerland situated) Street.
location
The Neuengasse flows into the bulwark in the west , with Genfergasse joining the Neuengasse shortly before that from the northwest . In the east it ends on Waisenhausplatz . About in the middle the Ryffligässchen crosses the street, which has often changed its name.
There are three passages in the blocks between Spitalgasse and Neuengasse. These are the Karl-Schenk-Passage and the Spitalgass-Passage to the east of Ryffligässchen and the Von Werdt-Passage to the west .
Since the construction of the Bern railway station in 1974, there has been an exit to the railway station at the eastern end of Neuengasse. The Neuengass underpass was put into operation on November 21, 1965 in connection with the provisional opening of the SZB underground station (today RBS), but at that time without any connection to the rest of the station.
The street is traffic-calmed. The short stretch between Genfergasse and Bollwerk is even reserved exclusively for pedestrians.
history
The alley laid out after the fourth city fortification was built (1346) was called Neuengasse (French: Rue Neuve) from the start. Like the three other back alleys of the last medieval development quarter, it makes a stretched S-wave. It was not an arterial road, but ended there until the Tachnaglergraben was filled in in 1528. At this outer end there was a nameless watchtower of the fourth western belt between Christoffel- and Golatenmatttor until 1830. With the demolition of the watchtower, the road became continuous and ended at the confluence of the bulwark on the future station square. In 1914, Neuengasse was paved.
From 1900 until his death in 1931, the Bernese city original hairdresser Karl Tellenbach , known as Dällebach Kari , ran his own hair art salon at Neuengasse 4.
Development
The development was never uniform. This can also be seen from the inconsistent arbors on the south side (shadow side). The north side has only a few arbors.
In 1928 the Ryfflihof (No. 26–28) was built here, one of the first large department stores in the city of Bern.
Buildings
The house number 20–22 was built in 1912. In 1912 a competition was announced for the “community center” with restaurant. The 3rd award-winning project by Zeerlender & Bösiger was carried out. The client was the AG. Bern community center. The building is in the neo-classical style. Between the windows on the third floor there are frieze- like Art Nouveau cartouches with sculptural craftsman emblems.
The house numbers 39–41 were created in 1904. The buildings, in the picturesque Art Nouveau style with two slightly protruding bay windows , were built from visible stone. They include the Von Werdt-Passage leading to Spitalgasse (No. 36) . The architectural office responsible for number 39 was Bracher & Widmer, for number 41 it was Klauser & Streit. The client was the SBB engineer Armand v. Werth.
Neuengassbrunnen
In the 19th century, two non-figurative fountains in the late classical style were set up in Neuengasse. The western or upper Neuengassbrunnen was planned when the future station square was planned in 1835. It was built in 1838 using the basin that was made in 1829 according to a design by Ludwig Samuel Stürler and was originally intended for the fountain that was not built on the square of the Church of the Holy Spirit . The monolith basin rested on an oval base plate with slotted support brackets. On it stood the square pillar with the date 1838. The basin and the well were made of white Solothurn shell limestone. On the northwest side there was a little animal fountain. The well was dismantled in 1964 in connection with the construction of the Neuengass underpass.
The middle Neuengassbrunnen stands on the south side towards the city center at Ryffligässchen. It was built in 1842/43. The fountain was made by Urs Bargetzi in Solothurn. The fountain consists of a long rectangular monolith basin with semicircular side wells attached to the front. The main basin and the secondary basins are made from the same piece; it is considered the longest monolithic fountain basin in the city of Bern. The main trough bears the year 1843. The square pillar in the middle has raised leaf wreaths on the two long sides to the basin. Dolphins are incorporated into the cornice. The basin and the well are made of Solothurn shell limestone. The fountain is still in operation today.
literature
- Paul Hofer : The art monuments of the canton of Bern. The city of Bern - cityscape · fortifications · city gates · installations · monuments · bridges · city fountains · hospitals · orphanages . Ed .: Society for Swiss Art History (= Die Kunstdenkmäler der Schweiz . Volume 28 ). tape 1 . Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1952, Die Stadtbrunnen III. Non-figurative fountains from the 18th / 19th centuries Century 2nd / 3rd Neuengasse, S. 327–328 (467 pp., Biblio.unibe.ch [PDF; 68.9 MB ; accessed on January 30, 2018]).
- Paul Hofer: The art monuments of the canton of Bern. The city of Bern - social houses and residential buildings . Ed .: Society for Swiss Art History (= Die Kunstdenkmäler der Schweiz . Volume 40 ). tape 2 . Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1959, The residential buildings IV. Äussere Neuenstadt Neuengasse, p. 449–452 (495 p., Biblio.unibe.ch [PDF; 65.0 MB ; accessed on January 31, 2018] History and development of Neuengasse.).
- Society for Swiss Art History (Ed.): Inventory of the newer Swiss architecture . INSA. 1850-1920. = Inventaire suisse d'architecture. Volume 2: Cities. Basel, Bellinzona, Bern. Füssli, Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-280-01716-5 , p. 511 (description of individual objects).
- Berchtold Weber: Streets and their names. Using the example of the city of Bern. Stämpfli, Bern 1990, ISBN 3-7272-9850-2 .
- Hans A. Jenny: Swiss originals. Portraits of Swiss individuals (= volume 1). Nebelspalter, Rorschach 1991, ISBN 3-85819-158-2 , pp. 25-29.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Werner Huber: Bern railway station. P. 87.
- ↑ Jenny: Swiss originals. Portraits of Helvetic Individuals. P. 27.
- ↑ a b Inventory of recent Swiss architecture. Volume 2, p. 511.
- ↑ Neuengassbrunnen, Oberer. In: Berchtold Weber: Historical-topographical lexicon of the city of Bern. 1976 ( digibern.ch ).
Coordinates: 46 ° 56 '56.5 " N , 7 ° 26' 31.5" E ; CH1903: 600 263 / 199772