Binz cemetery
The Israelitische Friedhof Binz is a Jewish cemetery in the Witikon quarter in the east of Zurich . It is operated by the Israelite Religious Society in Zurich .
history
After the Israelitic Religious Community split off from the Israelitische Cultusgemeinde in 1895 for orthodox motives , it initially acquired the Steinkluppe cemetery to bury its dead . When this was fully occupied in 1936, the community built the Binz cemetery.
Area and buildings
The Binz cemetery is located on the north-eastern edge of the wooded Oetlisberg on Weidstrasse, right on the city limits of Pfaffhausen, the political municipality of Fällanden, and the village of Binz , municipality of Maur . The area is delimited to the outside by wall-shaped hedges. A meeting place has been set up between the simple entrance portal and the abdication hall. Opened in times of the persecution of Jews in National Socialist Germany, the cemetery has a reserved and strict gesture. The graves are built uniformly and face east. As in the cemeteries of Agudas Achim and Or Chadasch , the graves do not have any vegetal decoration, but are mostly covered with gravel and surrounded by low walls. Below the inscriptions written in Hebrew , the names of the deceased are partly recorded in German. In contrast to other Israelite cemeteries, the dates of life according to the Jewish year count from the mythical creation of the world in the year 3761 before the Christian year are zero.
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 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Norbert Loacker, Christoph Hänsli: Where Zurich comes to rest. 1998, p. 30.
- ↑ Norbert Loacker, Christoph Hänsli: Where Zurich comes to rest. 1998, pp. 30-31.
Coordinates: 47 ° 21 ′ 37 " N , 8 ° 37 ′ 15" E ; CH1903: 689 308 / 246165