About Béatrice-von-Wattenwyl-Haus

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The Béatrice-von-Wattenwyl-Haus (also known as the Frisching-Haus) is a town mansion on the Junkerngasse No. 59 in the Old City of Bern, only a few steps away from the Erlacherhof.

The mansion is built up of several medieval houses. This is still visible on the north façade (main entrance) which consists of 3 medieval houses.

Between 1695 and 1710 on the order of its owner, the Bernese patrician Samuel Frisching (II), an ancestor of Franz Rudolf Frisching, the mansion underwent a rebuilt by the architect Joseph Abeille. Abeille restructured the interior of the mansion and added the elegant south façade in the Louis XIV style.

Source From: Wikipedia
59, Junkerngasse, Bern, Verwaltungskreis Bern-Mittelland, Bern/Berne, Switzerland, 3011

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