Jewish cemetery in Bern

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Exterior view of the Jewish cemetery in Bern
Graves in the Jewish cemetery in Bern with the Shoa memorial in the background on the left

The Bern Jewish Cemetery belongs to the Bern Jewish Community and is located at Papiermühlestrasse 112 in Bern-Wankdorf , Switzerland .

history

Bern already had a Jewish cemetery in the Middle Ages ; In 1377 it is mentioned as Kilchhof and in 1458 as Judenkilchhof . It was located where the east wing of the Federal Palace stands today and was acquired by the island monastery in pieces from 1323 in the course of the expulsion of the Jews from Bern, which was completed in 1427 .

A Jewish community did not exist in Bern until 1848; As in the case of the Jewish community of Basel , the deceased were initially buried in the Jewish cemetery in Hégenheim ( Alsace ) until the cemetery near today's Wankdorf Stadium was opened on September 5, 1871 . Of the roughly 2,000 grave sites, around 1,800 are now occupied.

The publisher and cabaret director Leon Hirsch , the doctor and satirical writer Isaak Kaminer , the philosopher Max Horkheimer and his wife Maidon, Horkheimer's friend Friedrich Pollock and the chocolate manufacturer Camille Bloch and his successor Rolf Bloch are buried in the Jewish cemetery in Bern . Even Arthur Bloch , victims of the "Jews murder of Payerne" is buried here. A memorial designed by Oskar Weiss for the victims of the Shoa has stood since 1988 . A complete list of all buried people is available in the cemetery.

See also

literature

  • Eugen Messinger: A look back at the history of the Jews in the city of Bern since 1191. Festschrift for the celebration of the century, 1848–1948. Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde, Bern 1948.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. Bern (federal city, CH) Jewish cemeteries. In: alemannia-judaica.de. Alemannia Judaica , January 30, 2014, p. 1 , accessed July 10, 2017 .
  2. ^ F. Meyer: International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Country Report of Switzerland (2015). (PDF) Appendix 3: List of Shoah monuments in Switzerland. In: holocaustremembrance.com. International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance , January 12, 2016, p. 15 , accessed on July 10, 2017 : “D26 | Jewish martyrs (Oskar Weiss) | Jewish cemetery, Bern BE | Sculpture | 11/9/1988 | Victim"
  3. Gaby Knoch-Mund: SIG factsheet Bern. In: swissjews.ch. Schweizerischer Israelitischer Gemeindebund (SIG) , September 9, 2012, p. 1 , accessed on July 10, 2017 : “On November 9, 1988, a memorial by the artist Oskar Weiss was inaugurated in the Jewish cemetery, the state government was represented on this occasion for the first time . "

Coordinates: 46 ° 58 ′ 4 "  N , 7 ° 28 ′ 16"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and two thousand four hundred and seventy-eight  /  201861