List of fountains in Bern

The city of Bern is known for its fountains. Best known are the fountains with statues from the 16th century in the old town, which originate mainly from the workshop of the sculptor Hans Freiburg Gieng:

• Pfeiferbrunnen
• Schützenbrunnen
• Anna -Seiler -Brunnen
• Zähringerbrunnen
• Vennerbrunnen
• Simsonbrunnen
• Fountain of Justice
• Runners fountain
• Well of Moses
• Ryfflibrunnen
• Kindlifresserbrunnen

More Bernese fountains are: Badgassbrunnen, Bärenplatz fountain, Bernabrunnen, Brunn gas wells, Federal terrace fountain, Burgerspital fountains, David Fountain, trade school fountain, Henkerbrünnlein, Mr. gas wells, island gas wells, Junker gas wells, conservatory fountain, Kramgassbrunnen, Lindenbrunnen, dry wells, mat wells, butcher gas wells, Münzbrunnen, New gas wells, fruit Bergbrunnen, post gas wells, Rathaushofbrunnen, Schaalbrunnen, venue gas wells, Schegkenbrunnen, storage gas wells, fountains State Archives, Staldenbrünnlein, Stettbrunnen, Thunplatz fountain, fountain in the orphanage playground, fountain at the World telegraph memorial, Widmann fountain.

A fountain pool is also located in front of the UPU monument in the park on the Kleine Schanze, and on the orphanage space is created in 1983 by the artist Meret Oppenheim Oppenheim fountain.

In 1992, under the present State Chancellery ( Post Alley 68) of Lenbrunnen, a drinking fountain from the 13th century, discovered.

A six-volume History of the Bernese Fountain ( The Fountain at Berne ), which is present only in manuscript form until today, created in the 19th century, the conservative pastor and chronicler Charles Howald.

History

In the 13th century there were in the city of Bern different source wells and probably cisterns and private Sodbrunnen. Just Ingers City Chronicle mentioned that you could get at the end of the 14th century already at five flowing water fountain in Bern. Of these, only five wells of Stettbrunnen is obtained ( since 1855 with stone basins ).

When the then well, it was only to wooden floor fountain. Only in 1520 the first stone fountain was erected at the cross street. Between 1542 and 1546 then were a variety of still present Wood Fountain with stone floor fountain with the typical Bern fountain figures, which come largely from Freiburg sculptor Hans Gieng replaced. At the same time a well -order and the Office of wells Master were created.

The wells were renovated in the 16th century and over again, are known, for example, total renovations of all wells for the years 1712/13 and 1757th

In the 19th century, the wells were considered to be obstructions to traffic and many of them were moved and renovated in the 1840s in the spirit of the time little professionally and using unsuitable materials such as lead and cement and transformed.

On the occasion of the 700th anniversary of the city of Bern, the time for the most part neglected wells have been carefully renovated in 1890/91. In 1896 the master shoemaker Heinrich Philipp extinguishing bequeathed his fortune to the city of Bern for the maintenance of the fountain, which is another total renovation allowed in 1925.

While the fountain figures and columns were previously painted discreetly in renovations, now are bright colors that resist the effects of the weather longer used.