Mosesbrunnen

The Moses Fountain stands on the Cathedral Square in Bern and belongs to the old town of Bern fountain from the 16th century.

The fountain sculpture depicts Moses, who in his left hand the two tables of the law keeps up with the 10 commandments, and with his right hand on the second commandment shows. " Thou shalt not make for yourself any graven image »

A first fountain with Moses figure was created in place of an older plant in the summer of 1544; until the mid-16th century, he was called by her fountain Nollen hus. 1740 the statue was so weathered that you removed it. After the meantime, a fountain system had existed, this was in 1791 replaced by the present fountains. The trough and the column was probably designed Niklaus Sprüngli, and the fountain figure comes from Nicholas Sporrer from Konstanz.