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Cemetery in Cholchłu

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Cemetery in Cholchłu

The church cemetery is located next to the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In its south-eastern part there are three graves from the first half of the 20th century and a brick burial chapel of the Galimsky family, from the beginning of the 19th century. The chapel is rectangular in plan and its inscription plaques have not survived . The chapel is currently undergoing renovation. Most of the gravestones in the cemetery are damaged and overturned, but the inscriptions are legible. One such tombstone is the burial place of Kaziemierz Miniutko, marked with the inscription: VETERAN OF 1863. / HERE LIE THE REMAINS / OF KAZMIERZ MINIUTKO / AGED 84 / DIED. D.29 JULY 1928 / DISTRESSED CHILDREN / PART OF HIS ASHES/.
The Catholic cemetery, established in the mid-19th century, is located in the western part of the village, approx. 150 m. from the village buildings and the church. from the village buildings and the church. The cemetery is not fenced, the gravestones are scattered in an oval shape, in an area of approx. 0.3 ha. Contemporary graves predominate in the cemetery. The oldest surviving grave is a granite boulder with an illegible inscription. Only the date on the side of the gravestone can be read: 1875. Next to it is a similar boulder with the burial place of Sylwuna Kozlowszczanka from 1890, with a legible inscription: /TU ODPOCZYWA SILWINA KOZŁWSZCINKA ŻIŁA LAT 29 U. 1890/.
Information about the cemetery has been published (see bibliography).

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. Województwo wileńskie na obszarze Republiki Białoruś”, Warszawa 2007.

Author:

Bartłomiej Gutowski, Salomea Grabowska
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