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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.
Bern now styled itself as a Republic (Stadt und Republik Bern, Republica Bernensis) rather than a Reichsstadt, following the example of the Italian city republics. In effect, public offices were now the exclusive prerogative of the gnädige Herren, the "merciful lords", as the small number of noble families now ruling Bern came to be called. In ...
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]
List of cultural property of national significance in Switzerland: Bern; List of cultural property of national significance in Switzerland: Bern A-M; List of cultural property of national significance in Switzerland: Bern N-Z
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 133,000 (as of 2022), Bern is the fifth-most populous city in Switzerland, behind Zürich, Geneva, Basel and Lausanne. [4]
The Venner was military-political title in medieval Switzerland. He was responsible for peace and protection in a section of a city and then to lead troops from that section in battle. In Bern the Venner was a very powerful position and was key in city's operations. Each Venner was connected to a guild and chosen from the guild.
List of the Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National and Regional Significance in the Canton of Bern, including in the city of Bern.. The cultural property 2009 class A listings are sorted by municipality and contains 345 individual buildings, 43 collections, 30 archaeological sites, and 4 other special sites or objects.
The Zähringerbrunnen was built in 1535 [2] as a memorial to the founder of Bern, Berchtold von Zähringer. The statue is a bear in full armor, with another bear cub at his feet. The bear represents the bear that, according to legend, Berchtold shot on the Aare peninsula as he was searching for a site to build a city. The armored bear carries a ...