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Cemetery in Braclaw

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Cemetery in Braclaw

The Catholic cemetery in Braclaw, hidden in the forest in the eastern part of the town, was devastated very quickly and it is not known whether any tombstones can still be found there. At the time of Zbigniew Hauser's visit in 1992 there were 18, and nine years later there were only 4 gravestones. Complete destruction is all the more likely as the cemetery shows many signs of looting in the form of undermining. Hauser also mentions the long-defunct cemetery chapel. According to the author, the most impressive monument of the four still in existence in 2001 was a red marble tombstone with a sculpture of a weeping angel placed on the grave of Anna Grocholska (d. 1899). Two of the four were in the shape of knotty trees. The Braclaw cemetery was a nobleman's cemetery, and the gravestones noted by Hauser dated to the last decades of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Bibliography:

  • Hauser Zbigniew, „Podróże po cmentarzach Ukrainy”, t. IV, „Województwa: wołyńskie, podolskie, bracławskie i kijowskie”, Kraków 2009, s. 366-369.

Author:

Alicja Czuber-Filonik
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