Or Chadash cemetery

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The Israelitische Friedhof Or Chadasch is a Jewish cemetery in the Albisrieden district in the south-west of Zurich . The name Or Chadash is Hebrew and means New Light . The liberal synagogue Or Chadasch is the operator of the cemetery of the same name.

history

After the liberal Or Chadasch community split off from the Israelitische Cultusgemeinde as a progressively oriented community in 1978 , it opened its own cemetery in the Albisrieden district of Zurich in 1982.

Area and buildings

The Or Chadasch cemetery is located on the western edge of Albisrieden am Schützenrain and borders the older Orthodox Jewish cemetery Agudas Achim . They belong to a number of cemeteries in this area of ​​the city of Zurich, beginning in the south with the Leimbach cemetery and ending in the southwest with the Eichbühl cemetery in Altstetten . The visitor enters the small cemetery through a cemetery gate , the wings of which reproduce the tall, arched tablets of the Torah . The tombstones are placed in an unorthodox manner so that they look northeast down the valley. As in the Binz and Agudas Achim cemeteries , the graves are not decorated with plants. In contrast to these more traditional cemeteries, however, the graves are not covered with gravel, but rather covered with continuous lawn. This refers to the design idea of ​​a forest cemetery. The fencing around the site also suggests that it is designed with deciduous trees so that the cemetery has the character of a self-contained space close to the forest. At the entrance, in a green niche made of ivy and yew trees, there is a memorial stone for the victims of the Shoah , designed by the sculptor Felix Kohn. A second stone in the background of the cemetery bears the simple inscription Gedenke and refers to the members of the community who were killed in the National Socialist concentration camps .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Norbert Loacker, Christoph Hänsli: Where Zurich comes to rest. 1998, p. 113.

Coordinates: 47 ° 22 ′ 13 "  N , 8 ° 29 ′ 7"  E ; CH1903:  679,053  /  247 131