Cemetery Eichbühl, Protected cemetery in district 9, Zürich, Switzerland

Cemetery Eichbühl is a rectangular cemetery laid out from southeast to northwest on the gentle slope of the Buechhoger in Altstetten. Visitors enter through a monumental portal on Friedhofstrasse; two long axes cross the grounds, one climbing southwest to the funeral hall, the other running over a concrete ramp along the main avenue to a shelter with a fountain basin near Salzweg. A third axis borders the east side and serves six grave fields for earth burials, enclosed by concrete walls.

In 1956 Zürich held a public competition for a cemetery to relieve the overcrowded burial grounds of Altstetten and Albisrieden; landscape architect Fred Eicher and Ernst Graf won the garden design in 1958, while Hans and Annemarie Hubacher and Issler designed the buildings. After a 1963 referendum approved the construction loan, the grounds were completed in 1963–1966 and the cemetery was inaugurated in 1968.

The cemetery is the resting place of clown Jakob Andreff (1919–1976), city councillor Edwin Frech-Schmid (1916–1988) and cyclist Gino Mäder (1997–2023). In 2015 it was a focus of the public-art exhibition AAA – Art Altstetten Albisrieden: Wolfgang Laib, Olaf Nicolai and Kiluanji Kia Henda responded to the cemetery, and Ana Roldán's golden sphere on the pavilion roof, titled Enjoy the Silence, was bought after residents intervened and remains installed.

The cemetery lies on the flat slope of the Buechhoger; from Friedhofstrasse a monumental portal opens onto two long axes, one climbing southwest to the funeral hall, the other running as a concrete ramp along the main avenue to the shelter and fountain basin near Salzweg. A third path follows the eastern boundary past six grave fields enclosed by concrete walls. The reserve areas for disaster burials lie on both sides of the path from the main entrance to the chapel.

Like Zürich's Schwandenholz cemetery, Eichbühl keeps land reserves for burials in a disaster; the prepared grave fields are visible in the slope north of the path to the chapel. On the pavilion roof, Ana Roldán's golden sphere, titled Enjoy the Silence, was bought by Schweizerische Mobiliar after neighbourhood pressure and remains permanently installed.