Herzlberg

Mountain of Remembrance ; Herzlberg
	Entrance to the Herzlberg
height	834 m
location	1 Herzl Boulevard, Jerusalem , Israel
Coordinates	31 ° 46 '26 " N , 35 ° 10' 49" E Coordinates: 31 ° 46 '26 " N , 35 ° 10' 49" E

The Herzlberg ( Hebrew הר הרצל Har Herzl ) is a hill and national cemetery in Jerusalem named after Theodor Herzl , the founder of modern political Zionism . Herzl's grave is on the top of the hill.

Since the founding of the state, numerous other political leaders and important Zionists have been buried on the Herzlberg, including Vladimir Zeev Jabotinsky and David Wolffsohn as well as the Prime Ministers Levi Eschkol , Golda Meir , Jitzchak Rabin and Shimon Peres . The hill is the scene of various memorial events and celebrations. Yad Vashem , the memorial for the Holocaust , is located west of the Herzlberg, Israel's most important military cemetery on the northern slope. At the entrance to the park on the Herzlberg there is a museum about the life and work of Herzl.

Herzl's grave

In his will, Theodor Herzl wrote in 1903:

“I wish to be buried in a metal coffin next to my father and to remain there until the Jewish people transfer my remains to Eretz Israel . The coffins of my father, my sister Pauline, and my close relatives, who will have died by then, will also be transferred there. "

When Herzl died a year later, he was buried in Vienna .

It was not until 1949 , 45 years later, that his remains were brought to Israel and reburied in Jerusalem. The Israeli authorities had ignored his wish to be buried in the cemetery on Mount Carmel near Haifa (which he expressly requested at the 4th Zionist Congress in London in 1900). The place of burial was selected by a specially formed state commission; Sixty-three proposals were submitted in the competition for the design of the tombstone. The winner was Joseph Klarwein with a simple black granite stone .

His children Pauline and Hans could only be buried next to him in 2006; his daughter Trude was murdered in the Theresienstadt concentration camp . Herzl's only grandson Theodore Norman was buried on Herzlberg in December 2007, 61 years after he committed suicide in Washington, DC when he learned of his parents' death in the Holocaust.

Mount Herzl Plaza

Mount Herzl Plaza is the main square where the Israeli Independence Day ceremony begins.

Herzl Museum

An interactive museum at the entrance of the Herzlberg offers an insight into the life of Theodor Herzl , the man with the dream of a Jewish home.

Memorial to the victims of terror in Israel

The Memorial to the Victims of Terrorism honors all victims of terrorism in Erez Israel from 1851 to the present day.

Hall of National Remembrance

In 2017 the new Memorial Hall of Israel's Fallen was opened on the Herzlberg with the names of all fallen defenders of Israel from 1860 to the present day. On an inner 250 meter long "wall of names" within the memorial hall there are 23,000 beige bricks on which the names of the fallen soldiers are engraved with the date of their death. Within the largely subterranean prayer hall, this wall winds three floors down along a pedestrian ramp. In 2018, Kimmel Eshkolot Architects received the coveted “Award for International Excellence” from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in London for the memorial.

Memorials

Garden of the Missing Soldiers

Memorial to the victims of terror in Israel

Memorial for Ethiopian Jews who were murdered on the way to Israel

Memorial to Jewish soldiers who fought for the Soviet Army in World War II

Memorial to Jewish soldiers who fought for the Polish army in World War II

Memorial to Jewish soldiers who fought for the British Army in Palestine during World War II

Memorial to the INS Dakar crew

Memorial for 23 victims who perished in a Palmach campaign in 1941

Erinpura Cenotaph

Monument to the residents of the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem , in the War of Independence in 1948 have fallen

National cemetery for police officers and soldiers

The most important cemetery for the Israeli armed forces and the Israeli police is located on the northern slope of the Herzlberg . Soldiers and police officers who died on duty are buried there.

Old burial cave

Jewish grave cave from the second temple, military cemetery discovered in 1954.

Garden of the Missing Soldiers

The garden of the missing soldiers on the Herzlberg is a tomb of the unknown soldier and a park in memory of soldiers of the Israeli armed forces who fell in an unknown place from 1914 to the present.

Herzl Museum
Grave of Theodor Herzl on the Herzlberg
The tomb of Yitzchak (black stone) and Leah Rabin (white stone)
Grave from the second temple that was discovered in the military cemetery
Hanukkia on the Herzlberg
Garden of the Missing Soldiers
Illustration of the planned national memorial hall, seen in the form of a torch - 2015
Entrance to the military cemetery

Mountain of memories

The Mountain of Remembrance (to the victims of the Holocaust) is a western extension of the Herzlberg. At 806 meters above sea level, it occupies the top of the mountain and is named after Yad Vashem .

Web links

Commons : Herzlberg - Collection of images, videos and audio files