Crematorium Totengut
The crematorium Totengut is a cremation facility with funeral chapel and cemetery in the Grisons canton capital Chur . The facility is included in the list of cultural assets of national importance in the canton of Graubünden .
location
The name of the area Totengut (in the Chur German dialect Totengüatli ) is already known before the settlement of the crematorium and goes back to the time when the plague raged in Chur in the 16th century and the dead were burned there. The crematorium is located in the district of Sand in the middle between Chur's old town and Meiersboden . It is served by line 9 of the Chur city bus .
history
The history of the crematorium goes back to the Chur cremation association , which was founded on February 18, 1913. The aim of the association was to build a second Grisons crematorium after the existing one in Davos .
In 1919 the city of Chur sold the parcels in the Totengut to the association. The architect Nikolaus Hartmann, who had already won the architecture competition for the crematorium in 1915, was commissioned to build the cremation facility and the church-like free religious assembly hall.
The crematorium was inaugurated on September 24, 1922, after the first cremation had already taken place with official approval on January 18 of the same year. In 1929 the abdication hall was completed with a mural by Giovanni Giacometti .
Since 1954, the cremations have been carried out by employees of the city of Chur, with the cremation association remaining the client.
An extension with the possibility of laying out has existed since 1974.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Hanspeter Rebsamen: Chur. In: Society for Swiss Art History (Hrsg.): Inventory of the newer Swiss architecture. INSA. 1850-1920. Cities. Volume 3: Biel, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Chur, Davos. Orell Füssli, Bern et al. 1982, ISBN 3-280-01397-6 , pp. 219-316, here p. 302.
Coordinates: 46 ° 50 '33.8 " N , 9 ° 32' 23.5" E ; CH1903: seven hundred sixty thousand two hundred and sixty-two / 190098