Fluntern Cemetery

The Fluntern Cemetery is on the hill above the city of Zurich Zurich. He is known especially because of some buried here by world-famous writers such as James Joyce and Elias Canetti and several Nobel Prize winners.

Grounds and buildings

The cemetery is located adjacent to the zoo and the same tram stop on the Allmendfeld Fluntern between Zurich mountain road and the forest on the mountain Zurich. It occupies an area of ​​33.250 m². In addition to private tombs and cemeteries with graves series of urns and burials there are also Community graves. Many family tombs have individual grave decorations and elaborate sculptures. Green areas in the western part to " give meaning as recreational and green space " in the cemetery one. The large stock of old, tall pines and other trees leaves the adjacent forest go into the cemetery, parts of which are now considered forest cemetery.

The cemetery has a small chapel for 100 guests, and a mortuary. The same building also Office of Management and an apartment of the cemetery manager are housed.

History

The time still independent community Fluntern decreed on the " plate " on an older cemetery, which comprised only 1,683 m². This was created in 1787. The cemetery on the plate was closed in 1886 and vacated in 1907, created as new roads and houses were built.

Today Fluntern Cemetery was created in 1887 by the municipality Fluntern. The then still very small plant was built strictly axially baroque model. After the incorporation Flunterns in the city of Zurich in 1893, the cemetery had to be abandoned: For the circle 7, the larger of the cemetery Enzenbühl was provided. Due to opposition from the local church community and people he remained, however.

1907 had the new cemetery Fluntern even be extended as the population Flunterns had risen sharply. In 1928 a second extension up to the edge of the forest, at the turn of the original Baroque style was retained. The floor plan was reminiscent of a Romanesque church, whose apse was formed by a specified higher terrace at the top of the plant. 1948 or 1949, the cemetery was last extended. In the west section complemented the clear shapes were abandoned. Here dominate large areas and in some curvy roads.

On January 15, 1941 James Joyce was buried in a simple grave in the cemetery Fluntern. In 1966 he was reburied on Bloomsday and got together with his deceased wife Nora Barnacle in 1951 an honorary grave in the cemetery of the city of Zurich Fluntern, which is adorned with a statue by American artist Milton Hebald. Their son, Giorgio and his wife Asta Jahnke - Osterwalder Joyce were also buried in this grave.

Tombs of important personalities

  • Emil Abderhalden (1877-1950), physician
  • Anita Augspurg (1857-1943), women's rights activist
  • Elias Canetti (1905-1994), Nobel Prize for Literature
  • Louis Constable, (1905-2004), sculptor
  • Walter Robert Corti (1910-1990), philosopher
  • Kurt Früh (1915-1979), Film Director
  • Therese Giehse (1898-1975), actress
  • Ernst Ginsberg (1904-1964), actor and director
  • Friedrich Hegar (1841-1927), composer
  • Jakob Heusser (1895-1989), Government
  • Lida Gustav Heymann (1868-1943), women's rights activist
  • Varya Honegger - Lavater (1913-2007), a graphic designer
  • Fritz Hug (1921-1989), painter
  • James Joyce (1882-1941), writer
  • Nora Joyce (1884-1951), James Joyce's wife
  • Paul Karrer (1889-1971), Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
  • Mary Lavater- Sloman (1891-1980), writer
  • Albert Meyer (1870-1953), Federal
  • Karl Moser (1860-1936), architect
  • Oechsli Wilhelm (1851-1919), historian ( tomb repealed)
  • Emil Oprecht (1895-1952), publisher
  • Eduard Osenbrüggen (1809-1879), legal scholar
  • Hans Roelli (1889-1962), Songwriter
  • Leopold Ružička (1887-1976), Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
  • Max Rychner (1897-1965), writer
  • Paul Scherrer (1890-1969), Physicist
  • Philipp Schwartz (1894-1977), physician and smugglers
  • Ernst Streckeisen (1905-1978), New Apostolic clergyman
  • Leopold Szondi (1893-1986), psychoanalyst
  • Peter Szondi (1929-1971), literary scholar
  • Fridolin Tschudi (1912-1966), writer
  • Oskar Wälterlin (1895-1961), Director
  • Sigmund Widmer (1919-2003), Mayor
Common burial Romanesque art Lida Gustava Heymann Albert Meyer (politician) Léopold Szondi Péter Szondi
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