Grand Marais, Seeland

The Great Marsh (French: " Grand Marais ") is a part of the Swiss Zealand and lies between the Lake Murten, the Broye Canal, Lake Neuchâtel, Gampelen, ins, the lake ridge in front of the Lake Biel, the Hagneckkanal, and a ridge of land between Aarberg and Kerzers. In it flowed into the Ice Age, the northern arm of the Rhone Glacier. Since the 17th century the area was marshy, what the name of Grosses Moos remembers. The drainage in the Aare north of Aarberg was increasingly hampered by glacial deposits of the River Aare. As a result of the Jura waters corrections Grosse Moos became one of the main vegetable - growing areas in Switzerland. It is also one of the greatest levels of Switzerland.

History

Up to the Jura waters corrections Grosse Moos was an impassable swamp land. For centuries it served is traveling folk such as the Jenischen as a residence and retreat area. The moving Korber found here also the necessary raw material for their work, the pastures. Born in 1879 as a descendant zwangsassimilierter propelled Jenische writer Albert minder spent his first years of life partly in the Great Marsh, partly in Berne.

Prisons

The Institute, founded in 1898 Bellechasse minors and the welfare of liberty for withdrawal sufferers were imprisoned until 1970 alongside criminals. Auxiliary Children of the Street placed a large number Yenish children who were torn from their parents, in this prison.

In 1883 as a prison for men and women opened institution measure the center of St. Johannsen served 1911-1956 as a workhouse for Kant drinkers, work-shy and song Knightly. This institution has today basketry in the offer to sell, a range that was originally produced and distributed free of Jenischen himself, later, by the same so-called " work-shy " inmates at the expense of state institutions.