List of cemeteries in Zurich

This list of cemeteries in Zurich describes the existing cemeteries in the city of Zurich .

Municipal cemeteries

The city of Zurich owns 19 of the 26 cemeteries that are located in the city. The planning and construction division of Grün Stadt Zürich is responsible for the new construction, the structural changes, the maintenance of the infrastructures and the provision of the grave fields in the 19 municipal cemeteries. The maintenance division takes care of the municipal cemeteries. The municipal cemeteries are 129 hectares in size, which makes up 8.5% of the total green space in the city of Zurich. There are around 60,000 graves and urn niches in the city cemeteries (as of 2015). About 3000 burials are carried out annually, of which about 1100 are in the 16 communal graves. The largest cemetery is the Sihlfeld cemetery with 28.5 hectares, the smallest is the churchyard at the old church of Witikon with 1080 square meters. The City of Zurich runs the Friedhof Forum at the Sihlfeld cemetery , which deals with the subject of dying, death and mourning. Due to the change in funeral culture, the City of Zurich has also developed a cemetery concept that is intended to take the changes into account and address the future of cemeteries in the city.

image	Surname	City quarter / location	size	inauguration	annotation
	Affoltern cemetery	Affoltern six hundred and eighty thousand seven hundred ninety-eight  /  253069	23,373 m²	1683	Originated from the historic churchyard of the Unterdorf church.
	Albisrieden cemetery	Albisrieden six hundred and seventy-eight thousand seven hundred fourteen  /  248 146	10,052 m²	1902	The population caused the city to reverse its decision to repeal in 2004.
	Altstetten cemetery	Altstetten 678332  /  248527	15,884 m²	1908	As a specialty, the cemetery has the common grave In den Rosen .
	Eichbühl cemetery	Altstetten six hundred and seventy-eight thousand and sixty-seven  /  248755	14,401 m²	1968	Considered one of the most important works of Swiss landscape architecture.
	Enzenbühl cemetery	Riesbach six hundred eighty-six thousand two hundred ninety-three  /  244931	98,334 m²	1902	Burial place of Margrit Rainer , César Keizer u. a.
	Fluntern cemetery	Fluntern 685 526  /  248642	33,250 m²	1887	Burial place of James Joyce , Elias Canetti u. a.
	Höngg cemetery	Höngg six hundred seventy-nine thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine  /  250593	8970 m²	before 1500	One of three historic cemeteries in Zurich that are still used as burial places.
	Hönggerberg cemetery	Höngg six hundred seventy-nine thousand four hundred eighty-nine  /  251534	57,290 m²	1948	Burial place of Erich Kleiber , Sasha Morgenthaler u. a.
	Leimbach cemetery	Leimbach six hundred and eighty-one thousand one hundred and three  /  two hundred forty-two thousand nine hundred and one	17,407 m²	1972	The youngest cemetery in the city of Zurich.
	Manegg cemetery	Wollishofen six hundred eighty-one thousand nine hundred eighty-five  /  244654	111,375 m²	1897	Grave of Alfred Escher , Othmar Schoeck , Aglaja Veteranyi a . a.
	Nordheim cemetery	Unterstrass 682520  /  251005	125,992 m²	1899	Owns the only crematorium in town that is still in operation. Grave of Gilberte de Courgenay et al. a.
	Oerlikon cemetery	Oerlikon six hundred eighty-four thousand one hundred twenty-eight  /  251194	7230 m²	1876	Protected as a characteristic cemetery of the 19th century.
	Rehalp cemetery	Riesbach six hundred and eighty-six thousand two hundred sixty-five  /  244989	31,159 m²	1874	Grave of Alfred Werner , Hermann Greulich , Heinrich Federer a . a.
	Schwamendingen cemetery	Schwamendingen 685779  /  two hundred fifty thousand seven hundred fifty-nine	65,518 m²	1930	0
	Schwandenholz cemetery	Seebach 682,850  /  252891	100,094 m²	1903	Has reserve space in the event of a disaster.
	Sihlfeld cemetery	Wiedikon six hundred eighty thousand eight hundred and seventy-three  /  247684	285,000 m²	1877	Once built as a central cemetery for the whole city. Grave of Henry Dunant , Gottfried Keller , Johanna Spyri a . a.
	Üetliberg cemetery	Friesenberg 680.29 thousand  /  245665	95,639 m²	1971	Unique panoramic view of the city of Zurich.
	Witikon churchyard	Witikon six hundred eighty-seven thousand three hundred and nineteen  /  245835	1349 m²	before 1000	Oldest burial place in the city that is still in use.
	Witikon cemetery	Witikon six hundred eighty-eight thousand and two  /  246 454	63,480 m²	1957	Owns Muslim burial ground.

Private cemeteries

There are seven private cemeteries in the city of Zurich, six of which are Jewish . The private cemeteries are sponsored by association law, but are governed by the regulations of the city and the canton in terms of infrastructure and funeral services.

image	Surname	City quarter / location	size	inauguration	annotation
0	Agudas Achim cemetery	Albisrieden 679074  /  247162	6500 m²	1913	Grave of the Orthodox Jewish community of Agudas Achim .
	Binz cemetery	Witikon six hundred and eighty-nine thousand three hundred and six  /  246179	7090 m²	1936	Run by the Israelite Religious Society in Zurich .
	Hohe Promenade private cemetery	Universities six hundred eighty-three thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven  /  246867	3179 m²	1848	Arose out of protest because family graves were not allowed to be erected in city cemeteries in the mid-19th century.
	Unterer Friesenberg cemetery	Friesenberg six hundred eighty thousand six hundred fifty-seven  /  246473	17,354 m²	1866	Older cemetery of the Israelite Cultus Community of Zurich .
0	Oberer Friesenberg cemetery	Friesenberg six hundred and eighty thousand one hundred and eighteen  /  245972	34,618 m²	1952	Successor to the Unterer Friesenberg cemetery.
0	Or Chadash cemetery	Albisrieden six hundred seventy-nine thousand and fifty-three  /  two hundred and forty-seven thousand one hundred thirty-one	1800 m²	1982	Burial place of the progressive Jewish community Or Chadash.
	Kluppe cemetery	Unterstrass 683,095  /  250646	1746 m²	around 1900	Occupancy discontinued in 1936, was replaced by the Binz cemetery.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Friedhöfe on the website of the City of Zurich, accessed on July 20, 2015.
2. ^ Fachstelle Naturschutz, quoted from: 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 , p. 35.

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