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Länggasse, Bern — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Länggasse is a statistical district and common quarter of Bern in the Länggasse-Felsenau Stadtteil, named for the lane that ran out to the Bremgartenwald.
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Where to stay in Länggasse
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The Mittelstrasse is the centre. Its restaurants and shops make it the heart of the quarter, and the ground either side of the Länggassstrasse from the station up to it is called the Vordere Länggasse, with the Hintere Länggasse running on from there to the Bremgartenwald. The name covers two different areas.
Its smaller sense is the statistical district, and the larger common quarter spreads across four of them, so what people mean by Länggasse depends on who is speaking. The station is at the southern end.
About Länggasse
What are the main landmarks in Länggasse?
The lane is older than the quarter. It formed in the 16th century as a dead end running to the Bremgartenwald and then a footpath on to the Glasbrunnen, and the quarter that grew later took its name. One bridge set the northeastern edge.
The Neubrücke of 1535 carried the country road toward Aarberg along what is now the periphery of the quarter. Small plots came next. By 1721 the Länggasse was already lined on both sides as far as the present bus terminus, which is where the first signs of a quarter show up in the record.
The Quartierkommission draws the widest boundary. It puts Länggasse between the station in the south, the Güterbahnhof in the west, the Aare in the north and the Neubrückstrasse in the east.
What is the history of Länggasse?
This was farmland like most of Bern's quarters. The ground that became Länggasse was worked agriculturally, and the first structure to touch it was a road rather than a building. The Neubrücke came in 1535.
Building it laid the country road toward Aarberg along the northeastern edge of the present quarter area. The lane formed later that century. It ran as a dead end to the Bremgartenwald and then as a footpath to the Glasbrunnen, and it gave the quarter the name it still carries.
Plots followed from the end of the 17th century. First signs of a quarter appear along the lane from then, and by 1721 it was enclosed on both sides by small parcels as far as the present bus terminus. Industry took it in the middle of the 19th century.
The stages after that run from an industrial quarter between 1850 and 1890, through public buildings and apartment blocks from 1890 to 1915, the filling of the gaps between 1915 and 1945, and densification with displacement from 1945 to 1980.
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Updated September 2026