Forest cemetery Davos
The Davos Waldfriedhof (forest cemetery Wildboden) is a cemetery in Davos in the Graubünden Landwasser Valley between Davos Platz and Davos Frauenkirch . It is under cantonal and federal monument protection and is included in the list of cultural assets of national importance in the canton of Graubünden .
history
The forest cemetery was built in 1920 by the architect Rudolf Gaberel together with Christian Issler. The sculptor Erwin Friedrich Baumann was responsible, among other things, for the design of the portal with cyclops masonry . In 1930 a Jewish cemetery was added.
investment
The cemetery is laid out in the middle of a larch forest and has the shape of an ellipse . It is enclosed - as is otherwise hardly known from cemeteries in the German-speaking part of Graubünden - by dry stone masonry .
The graves are laid out as row graves . Individual private graves are inserted in individual positions in the grove , which has been left in natural unevenness.
Celebrity graves
Key Davos personalities who were particularly connected to the site in various ways, such as Alexander Spengler , Willem Jan Holsboer , Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Ernst Haefliger , were also buried in the Davos forest cemetery .
Many of the first generation tombstones were made by the sculptor Wilhelm Schwerzmann .
See also
Web links
- The Davos Forest Cemetery on graubuendenkultur.ch