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Bern is built on very uneven ground. An elevation difference of up to 60 metres exists between the inner city districts on the Aare ( Matte , Marzili ) and the higher ones (Kirchenfeld, Länggasse). Bern has an area, as of 2013 [update] , of 51.62 km 2 (19.93 sq mi).
1417 - Bern Town Hall (town hall) built. [1] 1421 - Bern Munster construction begins. [7] 1430 - Konrad Justinger writes Chronik der Stadt Bern, a history of the city. 1470 - Tschachtlanchronik (Bern history) compiled. 1489 - Untertorbrücke (bridge) built. 1494 - Antoniterkirche (Bern) (church) rebuilt. 1513 - Town begins to keep bears in the ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
The old University Hospital of Bern, built between 1718 and 1724 according to plans by the baroque master Franz Beer, stood on the site of today's Federal Palace East. When the hospital was demolished in 1888, the remains of the walls of the medieval monastery St. Michael zur Insel also revealed a Jewish tombstone, and another in 1901 when the ...
Bern Minster (German: Berner Münster) is a Swiss Reformed cathedral (or minster) in the old city of Bern, Switzerland. Built in the Gothic style, its construction started in 1421. Its tower, with a height of 100.6 m (330 ft), was only completed in 1893.