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Roman Catholic cemetery in Matejov

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Roman Catholic cemetery in Matejov

Cemetery with Polish gravestone monuments. Documentation has been made for the cemetery (30 cards stored in the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage). Information about the cemetery published (see bibliography).

The cemetery in Łuków (before 1946 in Maciejów) is located in the western part of the village. It is a dilapidated cemetery where Zbigniew Hauser found only a few tombstones in 1995, but over a rather large area, which may indicate that it was originally a grand necropolis. As the best preserved, Hauser mentions a monument to Julia Czank, who died in 1932. It is a rock-shaped gravestone with vine ornamentation and a bas-relief of the head of the Virgin Mary, surmounted by a knotted cross, also entwined with vines. The tombstone of Tekla Mończinska, who died in 1906, as her surname indicates, from the family of the owners of Maciejów, has been preserved.

The cemetery chapel has survived, but, according to Hauser, with much damage and a robbed crypt. The neo-Gothic brick, plastered chapel covered by a gabled roof with a gable decorated with a stone frieze was built in 1914 through the efforts of Tekla Skomorowska.

At the edge of the cemetery stand two narrow chapels on a square plan, with arched openings in the upper storey and analogous niches in the walls of the lower storeys, also devastated.

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. 92-94.

Author:

Bartłomiej Gutowski, Alicja Czuber-Filonik
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