Editing Berne, Indiana (section)

==== Muensterberg Plaza and Clock Tower ====
The idea of building the clock tower and plaza was first raised in 2001 while the city of Berne was planning for its sesquicentennial. Wanting to celebrate the city's Swiss heritage, it was decided to model the clock tower after the medieval [[Zytglogge]] in Bern, Switzerland, the oldest monument in that city (built c. 1220, repaired in 1405). The clock tower and plaza were given the name Muensterberg (Münsterberg) after the small Mennonite community in the Jura Mountains of Switzerland that Berne's first immigrants came from.<ref name="gameo.org"/> The clock tower was constructed in 2010. It stands 160 feet tall and 32 feet wide, weighing approximately 1,216 tons (over 2.4 million pounds).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Muensterberg Plaza & Clock Tower |url=https://www.berneclocktower.org/pages/news/CT_Program2010.pdf}}</ref> It contains carillon bells created by the [[Verdin Company]].

The Muensterberg Plaza built around the clock tower also features The Settler's Statue commemorating the arrival of the first settlers to the area, the only stateside Canton Tree, and a series of flowerbeds laid out to resemble common quilting patterns.