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The vote to make Bern the federal city was met with little enthusiasm (419 vs 313 votes) in Bern [7] due to concerns over the cost. The first Bundesrathaus or Parliament House was built in 1852–1857 by the city of Bern in a New-Renaissance style.
Bern in 1549 Bern in 1757 Bern At its founding, the city is estimated to have had some 400 to 600 inhabitants, which grew to 3,000 by about 1300. During the city's rapid growth in the 13th century, the older castle of Nydegg around which the early settlement was built, was demolished, the Aare slopes fortified and the layout of today's Old Town ...
1191 - Bern set up as military outpost by Berthold V, Duke of Zähringen. [2] 1218 - Bern becomes a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire. [3] 1219 - Zytglogge (tower) built. [1] 1223 - Theto von Ravensburg becomes Schultheiss von Bern . 1256 - Käfigturm (tower) built. 1259 - First mention of Jews in Bern. [4]
The Erlacherhof is a town mansion on the Junkerngasse No. 47 in the Old City of Bern, ... was built between 1745 and 1752 after the plans ... and the merchant David ...
Bern is built on very uneven ground. ... Johann David Wyss (1743–1818) – author, best remembered for The Swiss Family Robinson; Charles Victor de Bonstetten ...
The first town hall of the city of Bern was built at Nydeggstalden. Known as the Burger Hus and the domus dicta die helle it was probably replaced by the new town hall around 1355. Between 1402 and its destruction in the great fire of 1405 it was privately owned. The second town hall was built on Junkerngasse near the choir of the Bern Minster ...
Built in the early 13th century, it has served the city as a guard tower, prison, clock tower, centre of urban life and civic memorial. Despite the many redecorations and renovations it has undergone in its 800 years of existence, the Zytglogge is one of Bern's most recognisable symbols and the oldest monument of the city, [ 1 ] and with its ...
The Bern Switzerland Temple (formerly the Swiss Temple) is a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). It was the church's first temple in Europe and the second outside of North America, [1] after the Laie Hawaii Temple. The intent to build the temple was announced on July 1, 1952, by church president David O ...