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The Rehalp cemetery is a cemetery in the Riesbach district in the south-east of Zurich . It is located in the immediate vicinity of its successor, the Enzenbühl cemetery . The Rehalp cemetery is one of the oldest still operating cemeteries in the city of Zurich.

history

In 1873 the Neumünster cemetery, which had previously been used for the three communities of Hottingen , Hirslanden and Riesbach and was located directly next to the Neumünster Reformed Church, was fully occupied . Therefore the construction of a new one, at that time far outside of the settlement area on the Rehalplocated cemetery, which was opened in 1874. Because the funeral system was transferred from the churches to the political communities in 1874 through a revision of the federal constitution, the political communities of Hottingen, Hirslanden and Riesbach took over the operation of the cemetery from the Neumünster Church from 1876. When these communities became part of the city of Zurich in 1893, it took over the operation of the Rehalp cemetery.

Although the new cemetery was expanded again in 1892, the Rehalp cemetery was already fully occupied in 1900. Initially, the city planned a new Balgrist cemetery to supplement the Rehalp cemetery , but this could not be realized. Finally, the construction and in 1902 the inauguration of the Enzenbühl cemetery took place. Today the two cemeteries Rehalp and Enzenbühl complement each other in terms of grave sites and types of burial, but also in terms of maintenance, operation and administration. In 1919 the Urnenhof was built, which is the landmark of the Rehalp cemetery. The Rehalp cemetery has hardly been changed since 1919. Its entire complex has been a listed building since 2004.

Area and buildings

The triangular cemetery area, situated on a slight hillside, is strictly geometrically structured. It has an old stock of trees. Large plane trees , copper beeches and linden trees are combined with conifers such as false cypresses . The family graves, which are laid out in narrow bands along the outer and inner periphery, significantly shape the image of the cemetery. The only high-rise buildings at the Rehalp cemetery are the service buildings at the main entrance and at the work yard.

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  Heinrich Federer's grave

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  Historical service building

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  Family graves

Graves of important personalities

The Rehalp cemetery is the final resting place of:

• Emil Brunner , 1889–1966, reformed theologian
• Robert Briner , 1885–1960, Councilor
• Robert Denzler , 1892–1972, Kapellmeister
• Ernst Eschmann , 1886–1953, youth writer
• Heinrich Federer , 1866–1928, writer
• Myriam Forster , 1894–1976, ballet master
• Robert D. Garbade 1918–1983, cinematographer
• Bruno Ganz 1941–2019, actor
• Hermann Goetz , 1840–1876, composer
• Hermann Greulich , 1842–1925, politician, founder of the first social democratic party in Switzerland
• Kurt Guggenheim , 1896–1983, writer
• Max Haufler , 1910–1965, Swiss folk actor
• Lothar Kempter , 1844–1918, composer
• Alfred Kölz , 1944–2003, legal scholar
• Heinrich Leuthold , 1827–1879, poet
• Olga Meyer , 1889–1972, writer
• Otto Meyer-Amden , 1885–1933, painter and graphic artist
• Elsa Muschg , 1899–1976, writer for young people and primary school teacher
• Paul Parin , 1916–2009, psychoanalyst, ethnologist
• Karl Pistorius , 1898–1966, operetta singer
• Armin Schweizer , 1892–1968, actor
• Alexander Leo Soldenhoff , 1882–1951, painter, aircraft designer
• Alfred Vogt , 1879–1943, ophthalmologist
• Anton Walch 1879–1963, actor
• Alfred Werner , 1866–1919, chemist, founder of complex chemistry
• Ingold Wildenauer , 1938–2013, actor and director
• Eugen Wyler , 1888–1973, writer and editor
• Laure Wyss , 1913–2002, journalist and media pioneer

See also

• List of burial places of famous people
• List of cemeteries in Zurich

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

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

• www.stadt-zuerich.ch
• Burial and cemetery office Zurich
• Rehalp cemetery in the genealogical directory Find a Grave

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rehalp cemetery .
2. ↑ ^{a b} Rehalp cemetery. Facts .
3. ^ ^{A b} Norbert Loacker, Christoph Hänsli: Where Zurich comes to rest. 1998, pp. 115-116.

Coordinates: 47 ° 21 ′ 7 "  N , 8 ° 34 ′ 47"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and eighty-six thousand two hundred sixteen  /  245192