Der Kreis Memorial Panels

On the building that once housed the Barfüsser, opened in 1956 and often called Europe's oldest gay bar, the City of Zurich installed historical panels in 2015. They mark the Damenclub Amicitia, whose 1931 meetings were an early moment of organised lesbian life in Switzerland. They also mark Der Kreis (The Circle), the gay journal and organisation based in Zurich from 1932 to 1967. Through the Nazi years and after, it was for a time almost the only such publication operating anywhere, with subscribers abroad. The panels are on the Spitalgasse side of the building at Brunngasse 15 in the Niederdorf. The bar inside today is the queer bar Kweer. Viewing is free from the street at any hour.