The municipality of Horw intends to gently renovate its heritage-protected cemetery and adapt it to modern needs. In the design competition for the redesign of the cemetery, the “hoch hinauf” (high up) design by raderschallpartner landscape architects and LÜCHINGER MEYER PARTNER was awarded first place. The ambiguous title refers both to the topographical and spiritual character of the site.
Due to the cemetery’s hillside location, it is laid out in terraces. On the top, the ninth terrace – designed by the renowned garden designer Willi Neukom – a neighbourhood park with a meeting point under a new pavilion and a play area is planned to complement the more intimate uses of the other terraces. The authors are thus consistently pursuing their goal of bringing the cemetery closer to its traditional significance: “Dedicated to life, along with the remembrance of the dead, in awareness of the cycle of (human) life.” “With “hoch hinauf” they present a robust strategy and an atmospherically coherent concept,” the jury concluded.