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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 ...
Bern (Swiss Standard German: ⓘ), or Berne (French: ⓘ), [note 1] is the de facto [note 2] capital of Switzerland, referred to as the "federal city". [note 3] [3] With a population of about 146,000 (as of 2024), Bern is the fifth-most populous city in Switzerland, behind Zürich, Geneva, Basel and Lausanne. [4]
1348-49 - Pogroms and persecution of the Jews in Bern following the Black Death. [5] 1353 - Canton of Bern joins the Swiss Confederacy. [6] [7] 1380 - Public clock installed (approximate date). [8] 1383-1384 - Burgdorferkrieg (Kyberg-Bern war) takes place in the County of Burgundy. 1406 - Construction begins of current Town hall of Bern. [7]
The Bern Historical Museum is a heritage site of national significance. [ 4 ] One of the most remarkable items in the collection is the Muri statuette group , a group of six Gallo-Roman bronze figurines, and the Moringen arrowhead , determined to be of meteoric origin in 2023 despite being in the collection for well over a century.
20 Minuten is published in tabloid format. Since 2005 the newspaper has been owned by Express-Zeitung AG , which is jointly owned by Tamedia (majority holding) and Berner Zeitung (17.5%). In the German-speaking parts of Switzerland , specific editions are made for the regions of Basel , Bern , Lucerne , St. Gallen and Zürich .
The fountain represents the biblical story of Samson killing a lion found in Judges 14:5–20. According to the story, Samson was born to a sterile Israelite couple on the conditions that his mother and her child (Samson) abstain from all alcohol and that he never shave nor cut his hair.
As the city of Bern in Switzerland grew, gatehouse towers and other defensive towers were built. Many of the towers have been rebuilt multiple times and served many different purposes over the centuries since Bern's founding. For more information on the history of the UNESCO Cultural World Heritage Site of Bern, see Old City of Bern.
This list contains about half of the cultural property of national significance (class A) in the canton of Bern from the 2009 Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National and Regional Significance. It is sorted by municipality and contains 345 individual buildings, 43 collections, 30 archaeological finds and 4 other, special sites or objects.