Hotel Innere Enge

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The Hotel Innere Enge is a hotel in Bern , Switzerland . The building is included in the building inventory of the city of Bern as "worthy of protection". The outside space, park and surroundings of Engestrasse 54, as well as the entire Engehalde, were placed under protection in 1985 and are listed in the inventory of Stadtgrün Bern, SGB 1991.

It is located at Engestrasse 54, north of the train station and the Federal Palace . It has two suites and 24 rooms. It is surrounded by an 8,000 square meter park and offers a view of the Bernese Alps. Fifteen rooms are dedicated to jazz musicians who have given concerts and stayed at the hotel. Each of these rooms was decorated with personal items of a musician and opened by him. For example by Lionel Hampton , Hazy Osterwald or Eddie Condon .

building

The building is in the Innere Enge area , on the Engeh peninsula. This is a residential area on the northern edge of the city center of Bern. The house is surrounded by a park with trees that are a lot older than the building. On the east side, the property ends at the Engehalde, a striking edge of the terrain that slopes down to the Aare .

The main house was built in the years 1865/1866 as an eaves, transversely rectangular structure. The building is surrounded by a light limestone plinth. The ground floor, which is bricked up and plastered with sandstone, has large arched windows. A circumferential cornice serves as a visual end to the floor. The upper floor was built in half-timbered construction with visible transoms and large rectangular windows . The building has a gable roof. On the west and east sides, the canopy was interrupted at three points and a roof structure ( dwarf house ) with a large window was built flush with the facade . The south facade is designed in the classical style and should serve as a show facade. It was provided with a central protrusion in a sandstone structure that extends up to the ridge . This has a large flight of stairs on the ground floor. The adjoining entrance door is framed on both sides by a large arched window. A balcony with three large, glazed balcony doors is attached to the upper floor across the entire width of the risalit. This again in a rectangular shape. The lettering Enge is embedded in the ridge area . The other facades also have central projections. However, these were created in the corresponding material of the respective floor. The east facade facing the park is dominated by the glazed veranda, which was enlarged in 1939. The generous glazing has been extended to the risalits on the north facade and thus connected to the original building. In 1910 an octagonal garden pavilion was built in the park . This had to be renewed in 1945. At the same time, a connecting wing to the pavilion was built from the restaurant. In 1991 the Innere Enge restaurant was completely refurbished and converted into today's Hotel Innere Enge .

history

For the settlement of the narrow peninsula , excavations in 1850 were the first to reveal Celtic traces that go back to the 1st century BC. Finds of antiquities and wall remnants also testify to settlement in the Gallo-Roman era, which lasted until around the 4th century AD.

In the Middle Ages there was hardly any knowledge of settlement. A chapel consecrated to St. Aegidius (St. Gilles or St. Gilgen) in 1344 has been handed down . This was built on ancient foundations in the former Gallo-Roman temple area. It was demolished in 1534.

With the beginning of modern times , in the 16th and 17th centuries, several estates were created. Some wealthy townspeople built country houses in the 18th and 19th centuries. These were used as a summer residence or year-round residence. The Biedermeier bourgeoisie discovered the beautiful landscape, which was "ideally suited for promenading". As a result, the first coffee houses and summer bars were opened. During the same period, socially committed people and doctors had set up sanatoriums and nursing homes on a private basis.

In the old republic of Bern, two colleges of four were used to manage the city-owned goods and fields on the narrow peninsula. The "Vierer-Collegium Obenaus" administered the area to the left of the Aare. This included the narrowness. Their official seat was the house of four in Obenaus . It was in the inner confinement. The "Vierer-Collegium Unterau" was responsible for the right side. The name of their official residence had changed several times. It was at the rear Engehalde . The two colleges were subordinate to the chairman of four, Samuel Ludwig Gruber. Gruber was a member of the Grand Council of the City of Bern.

Between 1738/1740 and 1753 Gruber had the Engeallee rebuilt as a double avenue from Engeried to the outer Enge . For this, the four-person house in Obenaus had to be demolished. The street was provided with elms, the promenade to the east with elms, leafy walls, lawn parterres and benches. Subsequently, the four-person house in Obenaus in the Innere Enge between the avenue and the promenade was rebuilt as a cow's house.

In 1762, adjustments were made for the "administration of whey cures" and tables and chairs were set up for customers. The small economy with a view of the Bernese Alps has become a popular destination not only for locals. In 1810, for example , a "Grand Déjeuner" was organized for Empress Joséphine , the wife of Napoleon Bonaparte who had been divorced since January 1810 .

The civic community of Bern has owned the “Engi” since 1803. This is evidenced by the endowment document of September 20, 1803. This shows which goods the canton of Bern had to cede to the city of Bern in order to «carry out its tasks».

At the beginning of the 1820s the building was rebuilt in the classical style.

In 1864 the building was demolished. On behalf of the civic community, Carl Haller built the Innere Enge restaurant with two large halls on the 1st floor in 1865/66 .

On the occasion of the state exhibition in 1914, Innere Enge was one of the three entrances to the exhibition grounds.

In 1981, the Bernese authorities approved a major hotel project to which the Innere Enge restaurant would have fallen victim. This was prevented thanks to the “Save the Inner Enge” initiative, which was accepted by the Bernese electorate.

In 1991, Engestrasse 54 was taken over by Hans Zurbrügg and Marianne Gauer under building law and rebuilt. Today's Hotel Innere Enge was created . The work was carried out in close cooperation with the city's monument preservation service.

music

Jazz concerts are held throughout the year in the Marians Jazzroom in the hotel's vaulted cellar.

Marian's Jazzroom is the main venue for the Bern International Jazz Festival . For this occasion, a large heated tent is also set up in the park.

Awards

literature

Hans Zurbrügg: Innere Enge - The World's Unique Jazz Hotel  Ed. Innere Enge. Bern 2013, ISBN 303303716X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b City of Bern building inventory , status 1996. Accessed on November 13, 2017
  2. ↑ Bern community , community initiative : Rettet die Innere Enge , 1985. Accessed on November 13, 2017
  3. ↑ Musicians rooms ( Memento of the original from December 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved November 13, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.innere-enge.ch
  4. ↑ Presumably the original main facade , picture from 1877. Retrieved on November 13, 2017
  5. ↑ a b c Building inventory of the city of Bern , district history 1995/97 . Retrieved November 13, 2017
  6. ^ Historical-Topographical Lexicon of the City of Bern , Joliette . Retrieved November 13, 2017
  7. ↑ Historical-Topographical Lexicon of the City of Bern , Viererfeld . Retrieved November 13, 2017
  8. ↑ Historical-Topographical Lexicon of the City of Bern , Engeallee . Retrieved November 13, 2017
  9. ↑ a b c Historical-Topographical Lexicon of the City of Bern , Innere Enge (restaurant) . Retrieved November 13, 2017
  10. ↑ Hotel Innere Enge , history . Retrieved November 13, 2017
  11. ↑ Die Burgergemeinde Bern, Present and History .pdf (56.7MB), pages 71/72. Retrieved November 13, 2017
  12. ↑ Bern Burger Library , picture of the promenade near Innere Enge , early 19th century. Accessed on November 13, 2017
  13. ↑ Building inventory of the city of Bern , inventory Länggasse , district history, pages 36–38. Retrieved November 13, 2017
  14. ^ Berner Zeitung The hotel in which jazz music lives - The story (right column) , BZ from November 26, 2015. Accessed on November 13, 2017
  15. ↑ Berner Zeitung The hotel where jazz music lives , BZ of November 26, 2015. Accessed on November 13, 2017
  16. ^ Marian's Jazzroom . Retrieved November 25, 2017
  17. ↑ SWI swissinfo.ch , Bern Jazz Festival 40th Anniversary , March 15, 2015. Accessed November 25, 2017
  18. ↑ Bern International Jazz Festival . Retrieved November 25, 2017

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