Cemetery on the Hörnli

Cemetery on the Hörnli

Memorial field with sculpture «Woman with dedication and guardian»

Sculpture "Woman with a dedication and guardian"

Wall fresco "The Last Judgment" by Heinrich Altherr (1878–1947)

Woman figure (1956) by Carl Gutknecht

Memorial plaque from 1946, location: 47 ° 33'59 "N 7 ° 38'36" E

Columbarium of the cemetery on the Hörnli

The Hörnli cemetery is the largest cemetery in Switzerland . It was built from 1926 to 1932 as the central cemetery for the entire canton of Basel-Stadt in the municipality of Riehen . The artistic design was funded by the Basel-Stadt art credit . Its symmetrical garden is around fifty hectares in size and houses tens of thousands of graves , including many well-known personalities such as Paul Hermann Müller , Fritz Haber , Karl Barth , Karl Jaspers or Jacob Burckhardt , some of which were moved here from older, closed cemeteries. The Hörnli cemetery collection is located on its premises .

Soviet memorial grave

In the cemetery are u. a. the graves of the following people:

• Alfred Abegg 1905–2002 (lawyer, politician)
• Friedrich Aemmer 1867–1934 (Dr. med., Head of the Health Department, Councilor)
• Heinrich Altherr 1878–1947 (painter, portrait, frescoes, glass painting)
• Wilhelm Altwegg 1883–1971 (classical philologist, Germanist, pedagogue, JPHebel biographer, President of the Hebel Foundation)
• Samuel Bachofen 1806–1889 (butcher, federal colonel, politician)
• Wilhelm Bachofen 1841–1922 (engineer, entrepreneur, construction company W. Bachofen-Dennler, politician)
• Oscar Bally 1864–1938 (chemist, entrepreneur and founder of the Swiss food manufacturer Haco)
• Theo Ballmer 1902–1965 (lithographer, graphic artist, photographer, head of the writing, graphics and photography class at the Basel School of Applied Arts )
• Heinrich Barth 1890–1965 (Dr. phil., Professor, E. h. Of theology)
• Karl Barth 1886–1968 (theologian)
• Paul Basilius Barth 1881–1955 (painter, draftsman, still life, portrait)
• Enrique Beck (aka Heinrich Beck) 1904–1974 (German-Swiss poet and translator)
• Ernst Beyeler 1921–2010 (art dealer, gallery owner, Beyeler Foundation, Fondation Beyeler)
• Hildy Beyeler 1922–2008 (art collector, Beyeler Foundation, Fondation Beyeler)
• Ernst Berger 1928–2006 (archaeologist, co-founder and director of the Antikenmuseum in Basel)
• Fritz Berger 1897–1977 (politician)
• Lore Berger 1921–1943 (writer)
• Rainer Brambach 1917–1983 (writer)
• Fritz Brechbühl 1897–1963 (politician)
• Edgar Bonjour 1898–1991 (historian, full professor of Swiss history and modern general history at the Univ. Basel)
• August Burckhardt 1868–1935 (historian, private scholar, librarian)
• Jacob Burckhardt 1818–1897 (art historian)
• Arnold Cahn 1858–1927 (internist, surgeon and pediatrician)
• Richard Calini 1882–1943 (architect, politician)
• Paul Camenisch 1893–1970 (architect, draftsman, painter)
• Pieter van de Cuylen 1909–1990 (painter, draftsman, sculptor, religious art)
• Stefan Cornaz 1944–2003 (high school teacher, historian, politician)
• Martin Burckhardt 1921-2007 (architect, politician, patron)
• Dare 1968–2010 (graffiti artist, actually Sigi von Koeding )
• Robert Doerr 1871–1952 (Professor of General and Experimental Pathology, Microbiology, Immunology)
• Numa Donzé (1885–1952) (painter)
• Theo Eble 1899–1974 (artist, painter, graphic artist, glass painting, fresco)
• Adelheid Duvanel 1936–1996 (writer and painter)
• Joseph Edward Duvanel 1941–1986 (artist, graphic artist, illustrator, painter, draftsman, pianist)
• Emil Dürr 1883–1954 (historian, professor at the University of Basel)
• Ernst Feigenwinter 1853-1919 (Dr. iur. Lawyer, Editor and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Basler Volksblatt, politician)
• Arnold Fiechter 1879–1943 (painter and teacher of color theory and painting at the trade school in Basel)
• Franz Fäh 1857–1907 (primary school inspector, teacher of German and history, historian)
• Adolf Gasser 1903–1985 (historian, high school teacher, professor, author)
• Elisabeth Gerter 1895–1955 (socially critical writer, poet, politician)
• Chester Gill 1928–2003 (teacher, jazz and gospel musician)
• Karl Glatt 1912–2003 (painter, landscape painter, murals, co-founder of Keis 48, Basel gray painter)
• Franz Gross 1913–1984 (professor, pharmacologist, head of clinical drug testing at Ciba in Basel)
• Carl Gutknecht 1878–1970 (sculptor)
• Fritz Haber 1868–1934 (chemist and Nobel Prize winner)
• Emil Haefely 1866–1939 (Dr. Ing.hc manufacturer for electrical insulation technology, politician)
• Carl Haffter 1909–1996 (child and youth psychiatrist)
• Fritz Hauser 1884–1941 (Dr. phil., Politician, head of the Basel Education Department)
• Ernst Emil Herzfeld 1879–1948 (Dr. phil., Professor, archaeologist, ancient orientalist, epigraphist, founder of Iranian archeology)
• Andreas Heusler 1865–1940 (Old Germanist, Heusler's notation, Heusler's law)
• Karin Himboldt 1920–2005 (actress)
• Charles Hindenlang 1894-1960 (painter, glass painter, wall painting, fresco, stage design, watercolor, ceramics, concrete sculpture)
• Robert von Hirsch 1883–1977 (leather manufacturer, art collector, patron, Dr. hc of the University of Basel)
• Henry Hoek 1878–1951 (geologist, meteorologist, mountaineer, ski pioneer, author)
• Emanuel Hoffmann 1896–1932 (Vice Director F. Hoffmann-La Roche & Co., art collector, patron)
• Ferdinand Holzach 1869–1942 (historian, rector of the boys' primary school, politician)
• Adolf Hottinger (1897–1975 (internist and pediatrician)
• Josef Hügi 1930–1995 ("Goldfüsschen", football player in the Swiss national team, coach)
• Hans Hunziker-Kramer 1878–1941 (professor, university lecturer for hygiene and social medicine, gynecologist)
• Jürg Im Obersteg 1914–1983 (pathologist, professor, forensic doctor at the forensic medicine institute in Basel, art collector)
• Karl Johann Im Obersteg 1849–1926 (entrepreneur and collector)
• Clara Immerwahr 1870–1915 (chemist)
• Heinrich Iselin 1888–1955 (Dr. jur., Professional officer, army corps commander)
• Otto Isler 1910–1992 (chemist)
• Karl Jaspers 1883–1969 (philosopher)
• Louis Kaiser-Winkler 1869–1927 (Swiss costume and flag factory)
• Max Kämpf 1912–1982 (artist, painter, draftsman, fresco, illustrations, watercolor, co-founder of the Basel artist group Kreis 48)
• Gustav Keckeis 1884–1967 (Publishing Director, Author)
• August Kern 1902–1996 (director, producer, screenwriter, cameraman, film distributor chemist)
• Hermann Kinkelin 1832–1913 (Dr., Prof. ao for mathematics at the University of Basel, rector, politician, insurance expert, statistician)
• Charlotte von Kirschbaum 1899–1975 (theologian, student and partner of Karl Barth )
• Friedrich Klose 1862–1942 (Dr. phil. Hc, composer, music teacher)
• Emil Knöll 1889–1972 (sculptor)
• Paul Koelner 1878–1960 (Dr. phil. Hc pedagogue, historian, author, inter alia, «Basler Zunftherrlichkeit»)
• Karl Küchlin 1864–1935 (builder of the Küchlin Theater)
• Alfred Labhardt 1874–1949 (gynecologist, director of the women's hospital in Basel)
• Herbert Leupin 1916–1999 (graphic artist, graphic designer, poster designer, painter and draftsman)
• Ines Leuwen (aka Agnes Beck, née Löwenstein) 1902–1976 (opera singer and singing teacher, wife of Enrique Beck)
• Rudolf Liechtenhan the Younger 1911–2005 (dramaturge, publicist, author, critic)
• Lothar Löffler 1918–1995 (musician, pianist, composer, arranger)
• Jean Jacques Lüscher 1884–1955 (painter, draftsman, lithographer)
• Cécile Ines Loos 1883–1959 (narrator)
• Rudolf Massini 1880–1954 (Dr. med. Professor)
• Markus Mattmüller 1928–2003 (teacher, historian, studies of demography and agricultural history in the Ancien Régime)
• Hugo von Mendelssohn Bartholdy 1894–1956 (banker)
• Otto von Mendelssohn Bartholdy 1868–1949 (banker)
• Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy the Younger 1879–1956 (chemist, industrialist, director of Agfa and IG Farben)
• Rolf Meier 1897–1966 (Prof. Dr. med., Chemist)
• Karl Meuli 1891–1968 (classical philologist)
• Carl Theodor Meyer-Basel 1860–1932 (artist, etcher, painter, graphic artist)
• Theodor Meyer-Merian (1818–1867), (physician and writer)
• Peter Meyer 1894–1984 (architect, art historian)
• Hans Moeckel 1923–1983 (composer, conductor at the Stadttheater St.Gallen and the entertainment orchestra of the Swiss radio)
• Paul Hermann Müller 1899–1965 (chemist and Nobel Prize winner)
• Walter Muschg 1898–1965 (literary historian)
• Albert Nicholas 1900–1973 (jazz clarinetist, saxophonist)
• Alfred Pauletto 1927–1985 (painter)
• Alfred Heinrich Pellegrini 1881–1958 (painter)
• Isidoro Raphael Pellegrini 1871–1954 (architect and sculptor)
• Alfred Probst 1894–1958 (rower, 1924 winner of two Olympic medals)
• Rolf Rappaz 1914–1996 (graphic designer, artist)
• Alfred Rasser 1907–1977 (cabaret artist, actor and politician)
• André Ratti 1935–1986 (editor, journalist, presenter and editor for Swiss television, first president of Aids-Hilfe Schweiz)
• Herbert Rehbein 1922–1979 (musician, composer, orchestra conductor, arranger)
• Gottfried Reimann-Hunziker 1908–1968 (surgeon, urologist)
• Rose Reimann-Hunziker 1912–2000 (gynecologist, gynecology and obstetrics)
• Toni Reinhard 1917–1965 (Romanist)
• Jean Roux 1876–1939 (zoologist, herpetologist, researcher)
• Otto Roos 1887–1945 (sculptor, painter)
• Otto Rubensohn 1867–1964 (Dr. phil. Professor, archaeologist, exploration of Paros)
• Maja Sacher 1896–1989 (sculptor, art collector, patron)
• Paul Sacher 1906–1999 (conductor, promoter of modern music, patron)
• Alfred Emanuel Sarasin 1922–2005 (banker, politician)
• Fritz Sarasin 1859–1942 (natural scientist, explorer, author)
• Paul Sarasin 1856–1929 (natural scientist, explorer, versatile author)
• Paul Schaller 1913–1989 (choir teacher, teacher, choir director, composer, founder and director of the Basel vocal ensemble)
• Karl Schefold 1905–1999 (archaeologist)
• Paul Scherrer 1862–1935 (lawyer, notary, politician)
• Josef Schetty 1824–1994 (social entrepreneur, silk dyer, Schetty & Sons, politician, head of the fire department)
• Hermann Schneider 1901–1973 (writer, editor)
• Paul Spahn 1914–2002 (news anchor)
• Ernst Speiser 1889–1962 (businessman, commercial director of the BBC, politician, Dr. iur. Hc of the University of Basel)
• Paul Speiser 1846–1935 (Dr. jur., Notary, lawyer, professor for commercial and tax law, lecturer at the University of Basel, Dr. phil. Hc at the University of Basel, politician)
• Wilhelm Speyer 1887–1952 (writer)
• Adrienne von Speyr 1902–1967 (doctor, mystic and spiritual writer)
• Rudolf Staechelin 1881–1946 (entrepreneur, art collector)
• Ernst Staehelin 1889–1980 (lic. Theol., Dr. hc Prof. for modern church history, university rector)
• Hartmann Stähelin 1925–2011 (pharmacologist, microbiologist, discovery of ciclosporin at Sandoz)
• Max Staehelin 1880–1968 (business lawyer, banker, Ciba President, one of the seven surviving Swiss on the lost Titanic)
• Thea Sternheim , b. Bauer 1883–1971 (German author and art collector)
• Emanuel Stickelberger 1884–1962 (entrepreneur, writer)
• Martin Stohler 1914–1966 (lawyer, politician and trade unionist)
• Hermann Suter 1870–1926 (organist, music teacher, conductor, composer)
• August Suter 1887–1965 (sculptor)
• Hans Martin Sutermeister 1907–1977 (hunter of false judgments)
• Ernst Tappolet 1870–1939 (Professor of Romance Philology at the University of Basel)
• Ernst Thommen 1899–1967 (captain and functionary of FC Breite Basel, football functionary, member of the FIFA executive committee)
• Eduard Thurneysen 1888–1974 (pastor, associate professor for homiletics, professor for practical theology in Basel, Dr. theol. Hc of the Univ. Giessen)
• Mark Tobey 1890–1976 (artist, painter)
• Hans-Peter Tschudi 1913–2002 (lawyer and Federal Councilor)
• Irma Tschudi-Steiner 1912-2003 (pharmacist, Basel's first private lecturer)
• Rudolf Tschudi 1884–1960 (philologist, orientalist)
• Florian Vischer 1919-2000 (architect)
• John Friedrich Vuilleumier 1893-1976 (lawyer, traveling writer)
• Hans Georg Wackernagel 1895–1967 (Dr. phil., Associate professor for Hist. Auxiliary sciences and folklore of the MA)
• Jacob Wackernagel 1853–1938 (language scholar / Indo-Europeanist)
• Gustaf Adolf Wanner 1911–1984 (Basel chronicler)
• Alexander Zschokke 1894–1981 (sculptor, sculptor)
• Friedrich Zschokke 1860–1936 (zoologist, professor of zoology and comparative anatomy at the University of Basel)
• Irène Zurkinden 1909–1987 (artist, painter, draftsman, lithographer, illustrator)
• Richard Zutt 1849-1917 (public prosecutor, councilor)

literature

• G. Oeri: Wall paintings designs for the quiet hall in the cemetery at Hörnli In: Architektur und Kunst Vol. 28, 1941 pp. 105–108

Web links

Commons : Friedhof am Hörnli with crematorium  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Documentation on known people at the Hörnli cemetery , tombstones, names, history, history, research, sepulchral culture, 2018
• Tour of the Hörnli cemetery on Youtube
• History of the cemetery on the Hörnli on altbasel.ch
• Stadtgärtnerei Basel: Friedhof am Hörnli
• Basler Friedhöfe , Wikipedia
• Hörnli Collection , The Swiss Museum for Funeral Culture

Individual evidence

1. ^ Friedhof am Hörnli on the website of the Basler Friedhöfe
2. ↑ murals for the rest Hall In: Architecture and Art Vol 27, Issue 11, 1940, p. 8

Coordinates: 47 ° 33 ′ 56 "  N , 7 ° 38 ′ 22"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and fifteen thousand one hundred and twenty-one  /  two hundred sixty-eight thousand three hundred and fifty-one