Postgasse (Bern)

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Bern, Postgasse
Untere Postgasse with Maybrunnen

The Postgasse forms part of the UNESCO -protected old town of Bern and has existed since the city was founded under different names.

location

Postgasse is located in the lower old town of Bern. It begins in the south at Nydeggstalden, leads over the Postgasshalde and continues to the west in front of the Bern town hall after the cross-running Kreuzgasse as Rathausgasse. The Antoniergässchen connects the Postgasse with the parallel Gerechtigkeitsgasse at No. 43 . Postgasse is almost 290 meters long.

history

From 1300 today's Rathausgasse and Postgasse were known as Hormannsgasse or Hormatsgasse. The eponymous Hormann family lived in Bern from 1224 to 1326. The upper part had been known as Metzgergasse since 1619, and in 1971 it was renamed Rathausgasse by the local council . The lower part was first called Postgasse in 1798. While the neighboring Gerechtigkeitsgasse with the Marktgasse mainly served the market, Hormannsgasse became the main thoroughfare when the Fischer'sche Post moved into house no. 64/66 in 1675. As a result, the new name, which was official from 1798, was created, although it only became common around 1870. At the lower end was the Stettmühle, also known as the Schutzmühle, from 1249 to the 15th century, which was connected to Hormannsgasse by a bridge. Your water wheel was driven by the secondary line of the city ​​stream running through the alley . Up until the end of the 14th century, the von Burgistein knights had a handsome Sässhaus on the upper sunny side. After the death of Konrad von Burgistein, the city took over the legacy of his sister Elisabeth and built the town hall there in 1405.

Houses

Because Postgasse, like Metzgergasse and Brunngasse, has been spared major fires since 1384, the pre-baroque building fabric has largely been preserved. The houses of the State Chancellery No. 68 and 70, with the wide, arborless facade, were rebuilt in 1851 and were a branch of the Gasthof Krone opposite until 1733. In the adjoining houses no. 64 and 66 of the former fisherman's post office, which is listed as Swiss cultural heritage of national importance (A objects) under KGS no. 9193 are recorded, the vocational school of the retail trade is located in Bern. The next building in the row is the Antoniterkirche , built in 1494 , a hospital church of the hospital brothers of St. Antony. It was built on the site of a chapel from 1444 and completed in 1505. In the period from the Reformation to 1939, the house was used for various profane purposes. It was only after the renovation in 1940 that the church could be used again as a minster parish hall. The Evangelical Lutheran parish of Bern has been there since 1956 , and the chapel of the Russian Orthodox community has been in the basement since 1944. The Antonierkirche is in the list of cultural assets of regional importance in the canton of Bern (B objects) under KGS no. 682 listed. In contrast to the sunny side, the front of the houses on the shady side does not have arbors throughout because it is mostly the back of the property on Gerechtigkeitsgasse. The double facade of the Hotel Krone No. 59, which was acquired by Daniel Stürler in 1733 as the Sässhaus, had the new owner rebuilt in 1851 with the exterior fronts to give it its present appearance.

Fountain

In the eastern part of house no. 68, the Lenbrunnengässli , an arched passage leads to the Lenbrunnen , one of the oldest water wells in the city. Another fountain, the Kronenbrunnen with the permanent installation by the artist Carlo E. Lischetti , is on the square in front of it. Further down in front of house number 31, the Maybrunnen has stood since the middle of the 19th century .

literature

  • Paul Hofer: Art monuments of the canton of Bern. Volume II: The City of Bern. Social houses and residential buildings. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1959.
  • Paul Hofer: Art monuments of the canton of Bern. Volume III: The State Buildings of the City of Bern. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1959.

Web links

Commons : Postgasse (Bern)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ World Heritage in Switzerland. UNESCO (PDF; 5.8 MB).
  2. ^ A b Paul Hofer: The city of Bern. Art monuments of the canton of Bern. Volume II, p. 226.
  3. ↑ Berchtold Weber: Protection mill Postgasse 6. In: Historical and Topographical Dictionary of Bern. 2016.
  4. ^ Paul Hofer: The city of Bern. Art monuments of the canton of Bern. Volume III, p. 14.
  5. ^ Paul Hofer: The city of Bern. Art monuments of the canton of Bern. Volume II, p. 228.
  6. ^ A b Paul Hofer: The city of Bern. Art monuments of the canton of Bern. Volume II, p. 233.
  7. ^ The fishing post as a cultural heritage of national importance. KGS (PDF; 212 kB).
  8. ↑ Vocational school for the retail trade in Bern. accessed on June 1, 2019
  9. ↑ Education Directorate of the Canton of Bern: Bern, Lenbrunnen old town. Retrieved March 2, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Berchtold Weber: The Lenbrunnen. In: Historical-topographical lexicon of the city of Bern. 2016.

Coordinates: 46 ° 56 '56.5 "  N , 7 ° 27' 19.7"  E ; CH1903:  601 282  /  199772