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Felsenau, Bern — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Felsenau holds the Engehalbinsel on Bern's north-western side, more than two kilometres out from the centre and clear of the inner quarters.
About Felsenau
Where to stay in Felsenau
The right area depends on your trip — here's what each neighbourhood is best for.
Felsenau sits far enough out that the choice is stark: a bed in central Bern with a run north-west to the Engehalbinsel, or a quarter address more than a kilometre from the nearest neighbouring district. Lorraine is that neighbour. Engeried and Breitenrain follow, each a comparable distance from the Holy Cross church.
About Felsenau
What are the main landmarks in Felsenau?
Three entries carry Felsenau's name on the heritage record, the Engehalbinsel among them, together with the Holy Cross church and the English Grave dated 1840. Bern's own list repeats the Engehalbinsel. The Holy Cross church and the English Grave stay with Felsenau alone.
Lorraine and Engeried are the nearest quarters, each more than a kilometre off, which leaves the three sights grouped on their own.
What is the history of Felsenau?
Bern dates its founding to 1191, well before anything Felsenau records, and the quarter's one dated entry, the English Grave, belongs to the nineteenth century instead. The rest of the record is undated. Felsenau reaches it as a named quarter of Bern, one of the divisions the city maps and administers separately.
Above that, the Canton de Berne governs, inside Switzerland.
Where is Felsenau?
The Engehalbinsel gives Felsenau its shape, a peninsula of land more than a kilometre out from Lorraine, the nearest of Bern's other quarters.
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Updated August 2026