Oberer Friesenberg cemetery

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The Israelitische Friedhof Oberer Friesenberg is one of the two cemeteries of the Israelitische Cultusgemeinde Zurich . It is located in the Friesenberg district in the southwest of Zurich , on Friesenbergstrasse across from the Üetliberg municipal cemetery.

history

After the older Unterer Friesenberg cemetery reached its capacity limits, the Israelitische Cultusgemeinde bought a plot of land opposite the existing cemetery in 1925. The city, however, prohibited the area from being used as a cemetery. In 1926 a land swap took place, which laid the basis for the later Oberer Friesenberg cemetery. While the preparatory work for the construction of the cemetery was in progress from 1944, the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde tried to buy more land below the area. However, this was rejected by the City of Zurich, as this green belt above the Friesenberg building zone was already intended for family gardens. Instead, the Israelitische Cultusgemeinde received an even higher strip of land. Today's panorama path came to lie between the family gardens and the cemetery area, so that the later urban cemetery Üetliberg also had to be aligned with the height of the cemetery Oberer Friesenberg. In 1947–1949 Friesenbergstrasse was expanded to accommodate the new Jewish cemetery. 1950–1952 the first stage of the cemetery was built. The plans came from garden architect Gustav Ammann , the cemetery building should be realized by architect Louis Parnes; when he died, his colleague Hans A. Landolt continued the construction. The cemetery was inaugurated on November 16, 1952. In 1988 the cemetery was expanded to 34,618 square meters. Land is available for further enlargement along Hagwiesenweg northwest of the existing cemetery.

Area and buildings

Behind the entrance to the cemetery is the abdication hall from 1952. It also has rooms for the ritual ablution ( tahara ). The stained glass windows of the abdication hall were designed by the artist Régine Heim-Freudenreich. The whole cemetery is accessed from the hall through different paths. The lower cemetery area is designed more freely because the paths are less uniform. The whole cemetery is evergreen cover crops of the tombs, by round cut arborvitae and yew and by the tight enclosure with firs , spruces and pines marked. At the abdication hall, a portico forms a kind of inner portal of the cemetery. Behind it is a forum where visitors can gather. There is also a memorial here that commemorates the victims of National Socialism . This limestone cube was designed by Susi Guggenheim-Weil. A frieze in the vestibule of the abdication building, which adjoins the portico , also comes from her .

Graves of important personalities

The Oberer Friesenberg cemetery is the final resting place of:

literature

  • Norbert Loacker , Christoph Hänsli: Where Zurich comes to rest. The cemeteries of the city of Zurich. Orell Füssli, Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-280-02809-4 .
  • Daniel Foppa: Famous and forgotten dead in Zurich's cemeteries. 2nd, supplemented and updated edition. Limmat, Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-85791-446-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Norbert Loacker, Christoph Hänsli: Where Zurich comes to rest. 1998, p. 61.
  2. ↑ Norbert Loacker, Christoph Hänsli: Where Zurich comes to rest. 1998, pp. 60-67.

Coordinates: 47 ° 21 '35 "  N , 8 ° 29' 57"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred eighty thousand one hundred eighteen  /  245972