Reinhold Rosner

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Reinhold Rosner (* 1868 in Prussia ; † 1937 ) was a Bernese entrepreneur. He became known for his project Greater Bern , with which he wanted to turn the Swiss city into a metropolis.

A portrait of Reinhold Rosner with views of his urban development project for a "Greater Bern"

Urban development project "Greater Bern"

Rosner ran a lodging house with a coffee shop and a sewing machine repair shop on Brunngasse in Bern's old town. Because he liked to wear uniforms, he was nicknamed "General". In the 1920s, Reinhold Rosner wanted to transform the city of Bern into a metropolis through an urban development project. In addition, he invested a lot of time and money in plans for utopian projects. He hired his own cartoonists to visualize his utopias. In 1926 he published his almost 70-page brochure in which he presented a new train station with 21 tracks and other projects, including an international airport and a large market hall with underground garages. Rosner also turned to the Bern municipal council with his plans: He demanded 170,000 Swiss francs for his intellectual property and wanted to leave the rights to his plans to the city. The local council rejected his offer with a few lines. Nevertheless, until his death, Rosner was convinced that his utopias would represent the future of Bern.

Rejection letter from the Bern municipal council to Reinhold Rosner.

Almost at the same time as Rosner, Le Corbusier developed his urban utopia Plan Voisin for Paris . In order to underline the importance of private traffic, the district should be developed with a wide street, a parallel to Rosner, who also wanted to expand traffic in the city center.

Nothing of Rosner's ideas has been implemented, apart from a few similar buildings that arose in the course of later projects. After his death in 1937, it was remembered as the Bernese original.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Simon Wälti: General Rosner's castles in the air . In: The Bund . July 23, 2007.
  2. ^ Reinhold Rosner's urban planning utopias - City of Bern. Retrieved September 23, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Reinhold Rosner: Initiative Committee. Reinhold Rosner, June 28, 1930, accessed October 5, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Reinhold Rosner: Bern, the Swiss federal city in the development of a big city . Ed .: Reinhold Rosner. Bern 1926.
  5. ^ Online archive catalog, City Archives Bern. Retrieved September 30, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Point magazine - the business magazine: The city between yesterday and tomorrow | Punkt Magazin - the business magazine. Retrieved October 5, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Rosner, Reinhold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Gastronom, entrepreneur and utopian urban planner
DATE OF BIRTH 1868
DATE OF DEATH 1937