Schanzen (Bern)
The jumps , consisting of the large and the small jump, are part of the last Bern city fortifications in the west of the old town from the 17th century.
Big hill
The Grosse Schanze 599 995 / 199,857 goes to plans of the Huguenot leader and military architect Agrippa d'Aubigné back that have been implemented in a reduced form. The construction of the ski jump was decided on March 30, 1622 and started in April of the same year. In 1634 the work was completed. Between 1834 and 1846 the facility was largely leveled; The main building of the University of Bern, inaugurated in 1903, now stands on its last remains .
Until the mid-19th century redoubt in a competition was held at the Great annually on Easter Monday wings instead. The best wrestlers in the canton and men from Unterwalden and Lucerne vied for the prize of a sheep and the title of wrestling king .
Small hill
The Kleine Schanze 600132 / 199378 consists of 1,623 completed Bastion guards , was converted into a park in the 19th century and is now the site of the Universal Postal monument .
In 1985, in the immediate vicinity of the Bundeshaus , the open drug scene that had been driven out from the cathedral platform gathered here until it was disbanded by the police in 1990 and moved to Kocherpark . But even after that there were still problems in the area around the Kleine Schanze with drug trafficking and a drug trial . With a structural redesign and the reopening on March 21, 2000, an attempt was made to counteract the bad reputation and to make the Kleine Schanze a meeting place for the entire population again.
