Oerlikon cemetery

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Oerlikon cemetery with abdication chapel

The Oerlikon cemetery is a cemetery in the Oerlikon district of the same name in the north of the city of Zurich . It is located on Schwamendingerstrasse in the immediate vicinity of the Catholic Church Herz Jesu Oerlikon .

history

Oerlikon separated from Schwamendingen in 1872 and became an independent municipality, which became an industrial location due to the newly built railway line of the Nordostbahn and recorded a rapid increase in population. Therefore, a separate cemetery was built for Oerlikon according to plans by city gardener Rodolf Blattner, which was inaugurated in 1876. In 1890 the cemetery chapel was built, which was also used for teaching and church services. In 1900 the cemetery was expanded to the west and in 1901 the morgue on the north side was built, which today serves as an office building. In the 1940s, the cemetery was fully occupied, so that from then on the majority of the residents of Oerlikon were buried in the nearby Nordheim cemetery. In 1995 the cemetery was officially closed, so that burials can only take place in existing family graves and in the community grave built in 1998. In 2004, the Oerlikon cemetery and its 12 graves were placed under monument protection.

  • Cemetery chapel on Schwamendingerstrasse

  • Community grave

  • Former mortuary

Area and buildings

The Oerlikon cemetery is located in a suburban residential area in Oerlikon and is bordered by Schwamendingerstrasse , Friedackerstrasse , Magdalenenstrasse and Salvatorstrasse on an almost rectangular ground. The access to the cemetery leads directly to the neo-Gothic cemetery chapel, which is framed by columned conifers. Between the chapel and the former morgue are solitary plane . This axis corresponds to the original symmetry of the cemetery, which existed between 1876 and the expansion in 1900. Thanks to the decision of the City of Zurich to set up a modern communal grave in the historic Oerlikon cemetery, its function as a burial site will continue after the end of the row burial. The common grave was erected in 1998 according to plans by Florin Granwehr and Hansjörg Jauch.

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Friedhof Oerlikon  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Norbert Loacker, Christoph Hänsli: Where Zurich comes to rest. 1998, p. 107.
  2. ↑ a b Friedhof Oerlikon on the website of the City of Zurich.Retrieved on July 18, 2015.
  3. ↑ Norbert Loacker, Christoph Hänsli: Where Zurich comes to rest. 1998, pp. 107-110.

Coordinates: 47 ° 24 '22.3 "  N , 8 ° 33' 11.6"  E ; CH1903:  684128  /  251194