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Cemetery chapel in the Evangelical cemetery in Karviná, photo Norbert Piwowarczyk, 2023, all rights reserved
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View of the cemetery chapel from 21 July 1973 (70th anniversary celebrations), photo 1973, all rights reserved
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Evangelical cemetery in Karviná Mexico, photo 2022
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Evangelical cemetery in Karviná Mexico, photo 2022
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Fragment of a document from the 1902 founding meeting of the Evangelical Cemetery Community in Karviná, all rights reserved
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Evangelical cemetery in Karviná Mexico, photo Bartłomiej Gutowski, 2022
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Evangelical cemetery in Karviná (district Doły), photo 2022
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Evangelical cemetery in Karviná (district Doły), photo 2022
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Evangelical cemetery in Karviná (district Doły), photo 2022
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Evangelical cemetery in Karviná (district Doły), photo 2022
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Evangelical cemetery in Karviná

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Evangelical cemetery in Karviná

The cemetery is located in Karviná in the district of Doły (also referred to as Mines), which is now almost completely deserted as a result of mining damage. It was located near the colonies of Karviná Mexico and Karviná New York. It is situated on a flat terrain. The layout of the alleys is regular. The tombstones are situated parallel to the alleys, in the middle of the plots the layout of the monuments has been partially obliterated. A chapel of neo-Gothic forms is located in the central axis of the cemetery. A comparison of the state of the cemetery with aerial photographs taken in the 1960s shows that almost all the gravestones have been preserved, but mostly in the form of destructs or are heavily damaged objects. In the course of the documentation work it was possible to find more than 500 burial sites, of which just over one-fifth have preserved inscriptions. Most of them are in Polish and Czech, with a few in German. Monuments to miners who died in mining accidents in 1917 ( Wiktor Szurman and Karol Suchanek ) and in 1924 ( Adolf Badura, Karol Dziadek and Henryk Tyrlik ) and to Paweł Milereski , the victim of an accident in 1912, have been preserved in the cemetery. Almost all monuments are preceded by slabs or bands. The vertical elements are mainly steles less often crosses on pedestals and single aedicules. Most monuments with modernised forms. On single surviving photographs on porcelain. They are mostly made of concrete / reinforced concrete or terrazzo. Vertical elements are also made of sandstone, Silesian marble (usually plaques or individual details like those of Anna and Adolf Lange or the Witoszek family are all marble) and granite.

Plan of the cemetery (drawing by Bartłomiej Gutowski, 2022)

Variants of the name:
cmentarz ewangelicki w Karwinie Meksyku, cmentarz „na Krainówce”, cmentarz ewangelicki w Karwinie Kopalaniach
Time of origin:
1903
Area:
approx. 0.6 ha
The oldest gravestone for which documentation has been done:
Tombstone of Anna and Adolf Lange
History:

1902 - meeting establishing the founding committee of the cemetery
1903 - consecration (19 July) of the Evangelical (Lutheran) cemetery on land purchased from Ewa and Jozef Karina. Joseph Karina (1850-1934) was superintendent of the Orlovsk church
1906 - construction of the cemetery chapel designed by the builder Hugo Königsberg and furnishing it with two bells from the Schwalbe company in Bielsko-Biała. The bells were transferred to the wooden belfry located at the Karviná church in 1983.
1923 - extension of the cemetery (the new part was consecrated on 23 July)
. around mid-1970 the cemetery was closed, some people then decided to exhume
ca. 2014 - collapse of the roof of the chapel
since October 2017 cleaning works in the cemetery
since 2021 cleaning work is carried out by the Olza Pro Association
in 2022 the Swietlik Foundation and the Volens Foundation in cooperation with the Olza Pro Association carried out cleaning works in the cemetery. They were co-financed by the Polonik Institute from the Voluntary Work programme.

Active/inactive cemetery:
No
Date of documentation:
2022
Author of the documentation sheet:
Bartłomiej Gutowski
Development / approval of the documentation sheet:
Bartłomiej Gutowski
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List of cemetery objects

118
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List of buried persons

137
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Related objects

2
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Attachments

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Plan of Karviná Doły Cemetery Show

Related projects

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Kaplica cmentarna na cmentarzu ewangelickim w Karwinie
Dokumentacja cmentarzy czeskiej części Śląska Cieszyńskiego Show
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