Kluppe cemetery

Forum at the entrance gate

The Steinkluppe Israelitische Friedhof is a small Jewish cemetery in the Unterstrass district in Zurich .

history

After the Israelite Religious Society split off from the Israelite Cultus Community in 1895 for orthodox motives , it acquired a small area on today's Steinkluppenweg in Unterstrass to bury its dead . The then second Jewish cemetery in the city was created. The community burials took place here between 1900 and 1936. When the Steinkluppe cemetery was full, the Israelite Religious Society built the Binz cemetery in the Witikon district as its successor .

Area and buildings

The whole length of the cemetery

In the middle of the suburban residential area with its busy streets, superstructures and social facilities, the Steinkluppe cemetery and the surrounding parks have been left out for a contemplative space. Since graves are never kept in Jewish cemeteries, an area with weathered tombs that are roofed over by old chestnut trees has been created since 1936 .

Behind the gate on Steinkluppenweg there is a small forum, from which a longitudinal path leads through the roughly 875 square meter small, rectangular cemetery. The stones are ritually oriented to the east, but designed differently. There are simple memorial stones, but also elegant obelisks and magnificent aedicule monuments in the classical style.

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 .

See also

• Judaism in Zurich
• List of cemeteries in Zurich

Web links

• Kluppe Cemetery on the Alemannia Judaica site

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Norbert Loacker, Christoph Hänsli: Where Zurich comes to rest. 1998, p. 153.
2. ↑ Norbert Loacker, Christoph Hänsli: Where Zurich comes to rest. 1998, pp. 152-153.

Coordinates: 47 ° 24 ′ 5 "  N , 8 ° 32 ′ 22"  E ; CH1903:  683,096  /  250646