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Cemetery in Obryń Mały

Obryń Mały | Belarus
biał. Małaja Wobryna (Малая Вобрына)
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Cemetery in Obryń Mały

Obryń Mały | Belarus
biał. Małaja Wobryna (Малая Вобрына)
Cemetery with Polish gravestone monuments. Information about the cemetery has been published (see bibliography). According to Anna Lewkowska, Jacek Lewkowski and Wojciech Walczak, "on the northern edge of the village the ruins of the manor house and the park establishment have been preserved. Approx. 400 m east of the manor house at the edge of the park are the remains of the burial chapel of the Kaszyc family, the owners of Obryń. The shape and form of the chapel are difficult to reconstruct due to the considerable degree of destruction. (...) The side burial niches adjoining the entire length of the body (...) have been preserved. They contain four vaulted niches on each side of a size that allows a coffin to be inserted into them and walled up from the front. This type of solution is reminiscent of the catacombs. (...) The entrance is bricked up with stones and a slab set into it. On the slab is a Latin inscription: "HIC SITUS EST / CONSTATNINE DUNIN-RAJECKI / HERBES OBRINAE / NAT. ANNO 1773 / OBIT 1844". It can be hypothesised that this is the first chapel in which Konstanty Dunin-Rajecki, then heir to Obryń, was laid to rest, and to which in turn the rest of the foundation was added in later times. On the floor level of the chapel, on the left side, there is a rectangular plaque. It is a memorial plaque with an inscription from which we learn the date of the chapel's construction and that it was founded by Konstanty Kaszyc. The burial niches are devastated, opened, the remains of coffins are visible, the plates with inscriptions are broken. Subsequent owners of Obryń were buried in the grave niches. Next to the chapel, two gravestones lie in the grass: those of the aforementioned Zofia Kaszycowa (d. 1923) and the 21-year-old Stanisław Kaszyc. Thirty metres east of the chapel stands a monumental granite block with the inscription: "KASZYCS 1870"."
Bibliography:
  • „Cmentarze polskie poza granicami kraju” , raport, oprac. B. Gutowski, Warszawa 2022 (maszynopis).
  • Lewkowska Anna, Lewkowski Jacek, Walczak Wojciech, „Zabytkowe cmentarze na Kresach Wschodnich Drugiej Rzeczypospolitej. Wschodnie powiaty dawnego województwa białostockiego (obecnie na terenie Białorusi), Warszawa 2007.
Author:
Bartłomiej Gutowski, Dawid Mendrek
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