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Cemetery in Chmielnik

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Cemetery in Chmielnik

The Catholic cemetery in Chmielnik lies in the southern part of the town. According to Zbigniew Hauser, the cemetery is disused, very dilapidated and overgrown. The vast majority of tombstones are in a vestigial state, often no longer bearing inscriptions. The author found about a dozen tombstones, but on his second visit nine years later, six were no longer to be found. The inscriptions mainly date from the mid-19th century, the oldest from 1841. Attention is drawn to an elaborate, rhymed inscription on the surviving part of a monument signed by H. Oleszkiewicz from Zhytomyr, unfortunately devastated by an undermining. It is placed on an unnamed gravestone put up for his wife by her husband.

Deep in the bushes, the author found the gravestone of Count Adolf Mostowski, who died in 1904 - as one can read from the inscription: a landowner, writer, poet and painter in one person https://slowopolskie.org/poezja-kresowa-adolf-mostowski-1840-1904/ .

The gravestones and fragments of gravestones preserved in the cemetery testify to the grandeur of the monuments erected and, at the same time, the variety in terms of forms and materials (Hauser mentions, among others, marble in various colours): tombs, plinths not infrequently without stone crosses, a monument in the form of a knotty tree and a knotty cross on rocks, grave slabs, obelisks. The ruins of a chapel are preserved in the centre of the cemetery.

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Bibliography:

  • Hauser Zbigniew, „Podróże po cmentarzach Ukrainy”, t. IV, „Województwa: wołyńskie, podolskie, bracławskie i kijowskie”, Kraków 2009, s. 226-228.

Author:

Alicja Czuber-Filonik
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