Zimmerwald

Zimmerwald is best known in Switzerland for hosting the 1915 Zimmerwald Conference, an anti-war meeting of socialist delegates during the First World War. Set on the Swiss Plateau south of Bern, the settlement retains a rural identity while belonging to the capital’s wider hinterland. The conference took place at the Hotel Beau Séjour and brought together opponents of the war from across Europe, including Vladimir Lenin; its Zimmerwald Manifesto became an important statement of international socialist resistance to the conflict. The former municipality merged into Wald in 2004, and Wald became part of Köniz in 2021. Continue through nearby webcams to explore different parts of Bern and the Swiss Plateau.

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