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Cemetery in Latyczów

Latyczów | Ukraine
ukr. Łetycziw (Летичів)
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Cemetery in Latyczów

Latyczów | Ukraine
ukr. Łetycziw (Летичів)

There were two Catholic cemeteries in Latyczów, but only the one established at the chapel founded in 1852 by the local parish priest survives. It has been restored as it was used as a dwelling for the parish priest in the 1890s. A wide avenue leads to it. The cemetery is still active and quite well maintained. It extends over an area of about 5 ha https://historianamapie.org/item/cmentarz-w-latyczowie/ .

Polish inscriptions appear mainly on tombstones from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Polish names also appear on contemporary tombstones, but the inscriptions are in Ukrainian. The oldest tombstones in this cemetery are from the mid-19th century.

Zbigniew Hauser eventually reports about 60 tombstones (including 14 unnamed ones)with inscriptions in Polish. There were more, but during his second visit the author did not find 12 more. The forms and materials of the gravestone monuments are very diverse. Hauser lists the following types of memorials: Podolia crosses, marble or stone gravestones topped with a cross or with a chipped cross, cast iron and stone columns, cast iron crosses, knotted stone crosses, grave slabs, cast iron tombstones and gravestones in neo-Gothic style. The oldest monument is the tombstone of Kamil Scinowski (died 1855) and an unnamed stone cross with the year 1825 engraved on it. The most impressive ones are the tombstone of Eleonora Niewiadomska in the shape of a stone column, surrounded by a cast-iron fence, the black marble monument of Marianna and Aleksander Siemaszek from the 1880s and the tombstone of the Ratusiewicz family - a stone cross with a wreath on a pedestal from the end of the 19th century. Of interest to Hauser are the tombstones with cast-iron crosses, unfortunately quite devastated, as well as the neo-Gothic tombstone of Rajmund Przestrzelski, decorated with pointed arcades.

Since 2012, for several years the cemetery has been cleaned by young volunteers acting within the framework of the 'Mogiła pradziada ocal od zapomnienia' campaign of Studio Wschód ; http://studiowschod.org.pl/rlatyczow2012.htm , https://www.studiowschod.pl/tag/cmentarz-w-latyczowie/ . The cemetery was weeded, the tombstones were cleaned. During the cleaning work, more old Polish tombstones were discovered.

Cemetery with Polish gravestone monuments. Information about the cemetery published (see bibliography).

Bibliography:
  • „Cmentarze polskie poza granicami kraju” , raport, oprac. B. Gutowski, Warszawa 2022 (maszynopis).
  • Hauser Zbigniew, „Podróże po cmentarzach Ukrainy”, t. IV, „Województwa: wołyńskie, podolskie, bracławskie i kijowskie”, Kraków 2009, s. 274-281.
Author:
Bartłomiej Gutowski, Alicja Czuber-Filonik
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