public elevator from Matte to Muensterplattform
by Michelle Meenawong
Title
public elevator from Matte to Muensterplattform
Artist
Michelle Meenawong
Medium
Photograph - Metal Print
Description
public elevator from Matte to Münsterplattform
The Mattequartier is a historic section in the Old City of Bern, Switzerland.
The first expansion of Bern occurred as the city was founded in 1191. The central and oldest neighbourhood was known as the Zähringerstadt (Zähringer town) after the founder, Duke Berthold V of Zähringen. While the Zähringerstadt grew, the area below the Zähringerstadt along the banks of the Aare river developed into the Mattequartier.
Situated in the southeast of the Aare peninsula, the Mattequartier, together with the Nydegg, constitute medieval Bern's smallest neighbourhood. Workshops and mercantile activity prevailed in this area, and medieval sources tell of numerous complaints about the ceaseless and apparently nerve-wracking noise of machinery, carts and commerce. The Matte area at the riverside features three artificial channels, through which Aare water was diverted to power three city-owned watermills built in 1360. In the early 20th century, a small hydroelectric plant was built in that location. Nearby, the busy Schiffländte (ship landing-place) allowed for the reloading of goods transported by boat up and down the river.
He cathedral platform (berndt also is a Berner Münster upstream rectangular terrace on the slope to the Aare.
The Géviert is parallel to the nave, is 66 to 70 meters deep and measures in width at the northern end of the church wall 85 m and at the southern end to the Aare out 86 m. At the southeast corner, it rises 31.5 m above the underlying Badgasse.
The foundation stone for the terrace was laid in 1334, but the construction of the retaining walls was not completed until 1514;The Münster master engineer Erhart Küng played a major role in this. By the time of the Bernese Reformation in 1528, the deposit of the square behind the retaining walls had not yet been completed; It was still 14 m below today's level and formed a scree. Excavation work on the cathedral platform in 1986 led to the discovery of the Bernese Sculpture , a spectacular find of statues of saints who had been removed from the cathedral during the iconoclasm and thrown onto the rubble.
Until 1531, the platform served as a cemetery and then as a park. It is surrounded by sandstone balustrades and is closed off to the Aare by two corner pavilions. Until the 18th century it was planted with linden trees and then with horse chestnuts.
From 1847 to 1961 stood on the platform since 1968 erected in the Nydegghöfli at the Nydeggkirche Zähringer monument. Since 1897, the Mattenlift, an electric passenger elevator, connects the platform with the Mattequartier on the Aare.
On the southern balustrade there is a commemorative plaque for the student Theobald Weinzäpfli, who on 23 May 1654 survived a fall from a horse over the wall of the platform and died in 1694 as a pastor of Kerzers.
Until the installation of safety nets in 1998, many people committed suicide by leaping from the cathedral platform to Badgasse. In the early 1980s, the platform was site of the open drug scene shifted to the Kleine Schanze in 1985.
In a lawn of the cathedral platform is the "Münster platform", a work of the Bernese artist Carlo E. Lischetti.
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