Bus stop with telephone booth, Bus shelter in Bienne, Switzerland.
The Omnibushaltestelle mit Telefonkabine on Krähenbergstrasse in Biel/Bienne is a small waiting shelter built in 1931 by architect Ernst Berger and the city building office in reinforced concrete, painted yellow and blue. It has a massive rear wall with a bench running its full length, and a telephone booth of the period plus a small fountain with a water spout and rectangular basin serve as side windbreaks. Two-sided lighting sits behind opal glass.
Built in 1931, this shelter emerged during a period when Bienne expanded its public transportation and communication infrastructure. It reflects the modernizing impulse of that era to integrate new urban services into cohesive structures.
The shelter's yellow-and-blue complementary colour scheme and its opal-glass light panels are hallmarks of the "Bieler Moderne" style. Its name comes from the telephone booth built into the side as a windbreak, a standard model of the period. The small fountain with a water spout and rectangular basin stands beside it.
The shelter stands at the level crossing where Krähenbergstrasse meets Waldrainstrasse, beside the railway tracks, not in Madretsch south. It is a small roadside structure with a massive rear wall, a bench along it, and a fountain with a spout and rectangular basin; the telephone booth and fountain serve as side wind protection. It is a listed monument, so view it from the pavement rather than treating it as a staffed stop.
The shelter is one of the smallest and most modest stops built by Biel's city building office during the Bieler Moderne period. Its two-sided lighting sits behind a facing of opal glass, a detail easy to miss from the street. The structure was listed as worth preserving in the canton's building inventory in 2003.
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