Galerie Carzaniga Basel - Basel Live
Galerie Carzaniga Basel - Basel Live
Galerie Carzaniga Basel - Basel Live
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Basiliskbrunnen Historisches Museum<br />
The Reformation in 1529 ushered in a phase of economic and intellectual<br />
stagnation. Nevertheless, during this period the foundations were laid for<br />
the fl ourishing economic development of the following 300 years:<br />
well-heeled protestant refugees from France, Italy and Holland introduced<br />
silk ribbon-making and textile dyeing, which brought the city great wealth.<br />
The many impressive houses on the Münsterplatz, the Weisses and Blaues<br />
Haus on Rheinsprung, the Seidenhof on Totentanz and the Wildt’sche<br />
Haus on Petersplatz are witnesses of this period.<br />
<strong>Basel</strong> entered modern life with the demolition of the city walls in 1860,<br />
which were then still intact. Nothing now stood in the way of rapid urban<br />
development. Of the former city wall, only three of the city gates have<br />
survived (Spalentor, St. Johanns-Tor, St. Alban-Tor). With the disappearance<br />
of the city wall, modern transport also arrived. By 1844 <strong>Basel</strong> was the<br />
terminus station of the world’s fi rst international railway line, and from<br />
1904 <strong>Basel</strong>’s importance as a junction was supplemented by modern Swiss<br />
Rhine navigation.<br />
Today <strong>Basel</strong> is an internationally important economic location, a place of<br />
trade and banking, and the seat of pharmaceutical world concerns such as<br />
Roche and Novartis, which have their origins in silk ribbon weaving and<br />
textile dyeing to thank. In addition, in the 20th century <strong>Basel</strong> also developed<br />
into the leading Swiss centre for trade fairs and conferences.<br />
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