The Nydeggstalden is one of the streets in the Old City of Bern, the medieval city center of Bern, Switzerland

Switzerland

Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

. It is part of the Nydegg

Nydegg

The Nydegg is a historic section in the Old City of Bern in Bern, Switzerland.The first expansion of Bern occurred as the city was founded in 1191. At the east end of the central and oldest neighbourhood, the Zähringerstadt , was the Nydegg castle near the banks of the Aare river. The houses that...

 which was part of the medieval industrial section of Bern. It is a semi-circular road running from Gerechtigkeitsgasse

Gerechtigkeitsgasse

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 toward the Aare river and the Untertorbrücke (German: Lower Gate bridge). It is part of the UNESCO

UNESCO

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 Cultural World Heritage Site

World Heritage Site

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that encompasses the Old City.

History

Originally Nydeggstalden was the eastern route from the Aare to Gerechtigkeitsgasse. In 1759 the road was smoothed and repaired. In 1956/58 the Schattseitigen (Shadow or southern side) of the street was rebuilt under the direction of H. Weiss.