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Berne - Switzerland
Berne is the main place of the area of jurisdiction Berne, the capital of the canton Berne and federal town of Switzerland. The old town is UNESCO world cultural heritage.
Story of Berne
The city of 1191 of duke Berchthold was founded by tough rings to first settlements on the Engehalbisland at the La Tène time and the gallic roman epoch. According to a legend he called the re-establishment Berne because he shall have killed a bear there. Berchthold built the town according to a clear plan: It was set up on the spit of land in a loop of the eagles so that it was protected in a natural way on three pages. A wall and a fortified tower were built on the fourth page. The protected situation made a quick growth of the town possible in the direction of the west: Fortified tower at the western end was the Zytgloggetower to 1256, followed by the cage tower to 1345 and from which Christoffeltower to 1622. of these stood nearby today's central station, however, was torn off from 1865. During the Dreissigjährigen war two additional protection plants were built, the so-called fieldworks. The this way protected field was Gross enough for the development of the town up to the 19th century.
Berne became opens free city after the dying out of the sex of the tenacious wrestlers. Its definite independence reached it with Siegen in the battle at the Dornbühl and then in the Laupenwar about the burgundians. In this second battle it was, with which supported by the three woods places it 1323 had allied himself.
Berne as an eighth place joined the collar of the inner Swiss woods places and 1353 helped the young confederation to get an influence field refined fundamentally so. The reconstruction of the town built of wood before was carried out after the great fire of 1405 into sandstone. Today, the medieval urban features arisen at that time still are got largely unchanged. 1848 became Berne certainly by the first swiss federal convention to the headquarters of the federal authorities.
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