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Name: Elektriker Bern
Adress: Thunstrasse 116, 3006 Berne, Switzerland
Phone: +41 31 351 01 33
Email: info@elektrojudag.ch
Web: www.elektrojudag.ch
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Name: Elektriker Bern
Adress: Thunstrasse 116, 3006 Berne, Switzerland
Phone: +41 31 351 01 33
Email: info@elektrojudag.ch
Web: www.elektrojudag.ch
Name: Photovoltaik Bern
Adress: Thunstrasse 116, 3006 Berne, Switzerland
Phone: +41 31 351 01 33
Email: info@elektrojudag.ch
Web: www.elektrojudag.ch
Name: Elektriker Bern
Adress: Thunstrasse 116, 3006 Berne, Switzerland
Phone: +41 31 351 01 33
Email: info@elektrojudag.ch
Web: www.elektrojudag.ch
Name: Photovoltaik Bern
Adress: Thunstrasse 116, 3006 Berne, Switzerland
Phone: +41 31 351 01 33
Email: info@elektrojudag.ch
Web: www.elektrojudag.ch
Name: Elektriker Bern
Adress: Thunstrasse 116, 3006 Berne, Switzerland
Phone: +41 31 351 01 33
Email: info@elektrojudag.ch
Web: www.elektrojudag.ch
The Federal Palace (German: Bundeshaus, French: Palais fédéral, Italian: Palazzo federale; Latin: Curia Confoederationis Helveticae) is the name of the building in Bern in which the Swiss Federal Assembly (federal parliament) and the Federal Council are housed. It consists of a central parliament building and two wings (eastern and western) housing government departments and library.
The building was designed by the architect Hans Auer and its inauguration took place on 1 April 1902. The total cost, at the time, was 7,198,000 Swiss Francs.
Parliament seen from the south east.
The two chambers where the National Council and the Council of States meet are separated by the Hall of the Dome. The dome itself has an external height of 64 m, and an internal height of 33 m. The mosaic in the center represents the Federal coat of arms along with the Latin motto Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno (One for all, and all for one), surrounded by the coat of arms of the 22 cantons that existed in 1902. The coat of arms of the Canton of Jura, created in 1979, was placed outside of the mosaic.
The name in German means "federal house", whereas the French and Italian names both translate to "Federal Palace".
The Berner Münster rises high above the Old Town of Bern, sitting in a bend in the River Aare.
The Berner Münster is the tallest religious building in all of Switzerland, its spire standing 100m high above the Gothic architecture of the church itself.
Also known as the Münster St Vinzenz, work on its construction was started in 1421 and continued until the 16th century to a design by Matthäus Ensinger of Strasbourg.
It is the most modern of all Switzerland’s Gothic cathedrals, with the spire finally added in 1893, at which point the building was finally considered complete. It is possible to climb the 344 steps to the top of the spire – which was surrounded by scaffolding and workmen during our visit – with views stretching out across central Switzerland to the Bernese Oberland and the Alps.
The 15th century tympanum on the central portal of the cathedral’s western side depicts the Last Judgement in gilded stone, with the damned to the left and the saved to the right – the Mayor of Bern has been saved and the mayor of Zürich damned!
Inside is a lofted triple nave, though opening hours can vary between days and seasons, making it more difficult than you might think to see it.
Name: Photovoltaik Bern
Adress: Thunstrasse 116, 3006 Berne, Switzerland
Phone: +41 31 351 01 33
Email: info@elektrojudag.ch
Web: www.elektrojudag.ch
A postally unused carte postale produced by Ernst Selhofer, Phot. Langgasse 3, Bern.
The Kindlifresserbrunnen (Swiss German for Child Eater Fountain) is a fountain at the Kornhausplatz in Bern, Switzerland.
Kindli is a Swiss German diminutive for the German word Kind, meaning child. A literal translation of the name Kindlifresserbrunnen therefore would be "Fountain of the Eater of Little Children".
The fountain sculpture is a sitting ogre devouring a naked child. Placed at his side is a bag containing more children.
It has been speculated that the statue is the likeness of Krampus, the beast-like creature from the folklore of Alpine countries thought to punish children during the Christmas season who misbehaved.
According to other theories it is a depiction of the Greek god Cronus eating his children, or the Roman Saturn eating the months, though Cronus should have six and Saturn twelve rather than the sculpture's eight.
It may also represent a warning to children to avoid falling into the, at that time, nearby Bear Pits.
A final theory is that it is just a carnival character intended to frighten disobedient children.
Around the fountain's base runs a frieze showing armed bears going to war, including a piper and a drummer.
The Kindlifresserbrunnen is an important object in the novel L'Ogre (The Ogre) by Jacques Chessex.