Friesenberg is adistrict at the foot of theUetliberg in the city ofZurich inSwitzerland. The district is part of the formerly independent municipality ofWiedikon, which was incorporated in 1893 and now forms urban district 3.
Situated at the southern slope of theUetliberg mountain, Friesenberg was formerly a part ofWiedikon municipality, which was incorporated into Zürich in 1893.
The quarter has a population of 10,360 distributed on an area of 5.15 km2.
On 5 July 1865 the Jewish community, which at that time numbered 30 members, mentioned the acquisition of a field for applying a cemetery.[1][2] On 31 May 1866 theUnterer Friesenberg cemetery was inaugurated on occasion of the first funeral of a Jewish woman in Zürich. In 1892 a cemetery hall was built, and after several expansions, a large second site was bought in 1916. Since the installation of thesecond cemetery in 1952, fewer and fewer burials were done at the very first Jewish cemetery in Zürich since the 14th century. Notable interments includeFelix Salten (1860-1945),Joseph Schmidt (1904-1942) andOtto Klemperer (1885-1973).[3]Oberer Friesenberg cemetery, the second cemetery of theIsraelitische Cultusgemeinde Zürich (ICZ), was inaugurated in 1952 and extended in 1988. At the cemetery grounds there is a large cemetery hall with rooms for ablution. A memorial stone (limestone cube) bySusi Guggenheim Weil recalls the victims of in the Nazi era. Notable interments includeKurt Hirschfeld (1902-1964),Mascha Kaléko (1907-1975),Erwin Leiser (1923-1996),Jenny Splatter Schaner (1907-1996),Margarete Susman (1872-1966),Lydia Woog (1913-2003), andSigi Feigel (1921-2004), the former ICZ president.[4]
The Friesenberg quarter is served by a number of railway stations on lineS10 of theZürich S-Bahn. These includeZürich Friesenberg,Zürich Schweighof andZürich Triemli stations.
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