Waisenhausplatz

The orphanage is a place centrally located in the city of Bern ( Switzerland ) located place.

Location

The orphanage place opens in the north-west into the memory lane, to the northeast in the Nägeligasse, to the east in the armory alley in the southeast in the market street, in the south on the bear square in the southwest in the Hospital Lane and to the west in the Aarbergergasse.

History

The southern part of today's capitol city, was created in the mid-16th century. At the beginning he was called cattle market, then the timber market, occasionally wine place in the 18th and 19th century was called the Place pork market. The middle part was created by reclaiming the Tachnaglergrabens, he was called witnesses home place after the Great armory that stood here. The northern part, heaped up over the old garden kit man, was not completed until 1784, he was called orphanage place after the 1782/83 by Ludwig Emanuel Zehender and Samuel Jacob Imhoof built boys orphanage. Only after the demolition of the Great Armoury in 1877 they began to call the whole place as an orphanage place. In late November 1983, the Oppenheim fountain was unveiled.