Bärenplatz
1579
Vernacular
landscape
For three centuries this was not a square but a ditch. The defensive trench that ran outside the city wall west of the Käfigturm was walled off at its northern end in 1513 to form the Bärengraben, Bern's bear pit; the bridge into the…
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- 1579
The ground of the square is a filled-in defensive ditch. The bridge into the Käfigturm was demolished in 1578 and the southern stretch of the trench was filled the following year, giving Bern a level open surface that was immediately put…
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- Katrin Gilger · CC BY-SA 2.0
- JoachimKohler-HB · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Jean Housen · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Buchter · Public domain
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