The fountain, located at the upper end of
Marktgasse memorializes the founder of the first hospital in Bern. is represented by a woman in a blue dress, pouring water into a small dish. She stands on a pillar brought from the
Roman town of
Aventicum (modern
Avenches). On 29 November 1354 in her
will she asked the city to help found a hospital in her house which today stands on
Zeughausgasse. The hospital initially had 13 beds and 2 attendants and was to be an
ewiges Spital the hospital was renamed the
Seilerin Spital. In 1531 the hospital moved to the empty
Dominican Order monastery
St. Michaels Insel (St. Michael's Island) and was then known as the
Inselspital, which still exists over 650 years after Anna Seiler founded it. The modern
Inselspital has about 6,000 employees and treats about 220,000 individuals per year. ==References==