Manegg cemetery
The Manegg cemetery is a cemetery in Zurich - Wollishofen . It has existed since 1897, is 111,375 m² in size and serves as a burial place for the residents of the Wollishofen and Enge quarters .
history
After Enge and Wollishofen had come to the city of Zurich in 1893 as part of the first incorporation and the decision had been made against a central cemetery for the entire city of Zurich, land was acquired in Letzi Wollishofen in 1895 for the construction of a district cemetery . Landscape architect Gottlieb Friedrich Rothpletz designed the oldest part of today's Manegg cemetery, which is located in the southeast of the complex. The cemetery was put into operation in 1897, and in 1909 the rectangular figure in the east was added, which with its ellipse and adjacent semicircular rows has become the landmark of the Manegg cemetery. From 1906 to 1925 three unsuccessful attempts were made to build an abdication chapel, as abdications often took place at home. The abdication chapel was not built until 1930. 1935–1938 the third expansion took place according to plans by Konrad Hippenmeier. In 1963, a community grave was erected for the first time in the city of Zurich; it is located in the northwest corner of the cemetery. 1986 saw the latest expansion of the cemetery in the northwest area. In 2004, the entire cemetery including walls, enclosures and gates, including 47 graves, was placed under protection.
Area and buildings
The Manegg cemetery is bordered by residential houses in an eastern arch and by the A3 motorway in a western arch . The connection to the city is provided by Thuja Street , built for the cemetery between 1898 and 1899 . During the expansion in 1932, a central axis was created that leads to the newly built portal on Morgentalstrasse . At the other end of this axis there has been the large communal grave of the cemetery since 1963. In 1906 a striking gable portal was built on Thujastrasse. To the right of the portal, the high-rise buildings were built in 1906 and the abdication chapel in 1930, which has had a wall mosaic by Augusto Giacometti as a valuable work of art since 1932 . The resurrection angel by Otto Kappeler has been rising to the side of the chapel since 1930. The angel has put his foot on an empty couch covered with cloths and is pointing with his right arm to the empty couch, with his left arm to heaven. The communal grave has a bronze trumpet angel by Alfred Huber from 1963 as an artistic center .
particularities
- In 1960 the city's first communal grave was set up at the Manegg cemetery.
- For historical reasons, soldiers' graves are a rarity in Zurich. At the Manegg cemetery, however, there is the French grave on the upper edge of the ellipse . This was originally in the Elisabethenstrasse cemetery near the Wiedikon tram depot and contains the remains of the French who died in Swiss internment during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871 . The dead were initially buried in the abandoned cemeteries Neumünster and Milchbuck (cemetery of the cantonal hospital). In the same place there is also a memorial stone for French soldiers who fell in World War I , including volunteers from Zurich.
Graves of important personalities
The Manegg cemetery is the final resting place of:
- Erwin Heinz Ackerknecht , 1906–1988, medical historian
- Volkmar Andreae , 1879–1962, conductor and composer
- Maximilian Oskar Bircher-Benner , 1867–1939, doctor, inventor of Birchermüesli
- Werner Büchi , 1916–1999, caricaturist
- Walter Matthias Diggelmann , 1927–1979, writer
- Albert Ehrismann , 1908–1998, poet and playwright
- Alfred Escher , 1819–1882, statesman, builder of the Gotthard Railway
- Paul V. Esterházy de Galantha , 1909–1989, last prince of Hungary
- Friedrich Glauser , 1896–1938, writer
- Kurt Gloor , 1942–1997, film director
- Robert Haab , 1865–1939, Federal Councilor
- Hannes Henny , 1909–1996, theologian, vicar general of Zurich
- Otto Kapeller , 1884–1949, sculptor and vocational school teacher
- Clara Kern , 1906–1943, writer
- David Koetser , 1908–1992, art dealer, founder of the foundation
- Hans Paul Künzi , 1924–2004, mathematician and councilor
- Emil Landolt , 1895–1995, Mayor of Zurich
- Karl Melzer , 1880–1955, opera singer (tenor)
- Paul Meierhans , 1895–1976, journalist and politician
- Wilfrid Moser , 1914–1997, painter and sculptor
- Ernst Nobs , 1886–1957, Federal Councilor
- Robert Oboussier , 1900–1957, composer, grave repealed in 2001
- Gottlieb-Friedrich Rothpletz , 1864–1932, horticultural pioneer
- Lee Ruckstuhl , 1921–1999, actress
- Martin Schlappner (film critic) , 1919–1998, film critic
- Willi Schuh , 1900–1986, musicologist and editor
- Adolf Streuli , 1868–1933, notary, councilor
- Othmar Schoeck , 1886–1957, composer
- Aglaja Veteranyi , 1962–2002, writer
Entrance area, on the left the chapel
Chapel organ
Friedrich Glauser's grave
Kurt Gloor's grave
Alfred Escher's grave
See also
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
- Article Friedhof Manegg on the website Walk through Züri
- Prominent deceased after cemeteries in the city of Zurich (pdf; 391 kB)
- Manegg Cemetery on the website of the City of Zurich
- Cemetery Manegg in the genealogical directory Find a Grave
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Norbert Loacker, Christoph Hänsli: Where Zurich comes to rest. 1998, pp. 91-93.
- ^ Website of the City of Zurich
- ↑ Norbert Loacker, Christoph Hänsli: Where Zurich comes to rest. 1998, pp. 92-93.
- ^ Robert Savary: Neumünster cemetery (defunct), Cemetery: # 2669231. In: Find a Grave . July 18, 2018, accessed June 8, 2019 .
- ^ Robert Savary: Friedhof des Kantonsspital / Milchbuck (defunct), Cemetery: # 2669345. In: Find a Grave. July 18, 2018, accessed June 8, 2018 .
Coordinates: 47 ° 20 '51.5 " N , 8 ° 31' 25.1" E ; CH1903: 681985 / 244654