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Cemetery in Chernivtsi (Chernivtsi Podilskyi)

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Cemetery in Chernivtsi (Chernivtsi Podilskyi)

The Catholic cemetery in the village of Chernivtsi (former Polish name Chernivtsi Podolskie) was located right next to the chapel of the Mankowski family. The chapel was renamed an Orthodox church, and the building itself was included in the list of cultural heritage monuments of Ukraine. The crypts have been renovated in recent years - plaques commemorating members of the Mankovsky family have been installed http://www.chernivtsi-vin.com/Images/Gallery/village/Chernivtsi/Page01/rotonda/page09.html . Inside the church there is a bust with a plaque commemorating the senior of the family - Emeryk Mankowski (1826-1918), entrepreneur, philanthropist and participant in the January Uprising http://www.chernivtsi-vin.com/Images/Gallery/village/Chernivtsi/Page01/rotonda/page06.html . The chapel was built in the classicist style. It has the shape of a rotunda covered by a dome supported directly on the walls. The rotunda is preceded by a rectangular narthex with a four-column portico topped by a pediment.

The Polish cemetery was a necropolis of the nobility, so it can be assumed that there were many artistically valuable gravestones. During Soviet times, probably around 1923 (this is how the church is dated), the cemetery was liquidated and the tombstones used as building material. As Zbigniew Hauser recalls, several tombstones rescued by Longin Sokolański, a local guardian of Polish monuments, were used to create a lapidarium, now next to the Orthodox church or chapel of the Mankowski family. Among the seven surviving tombstones, the inscription from the monument to Marian Rafałowski, a doctor who died of typhus while saving people during an epidemic, attracts attention. All fragments of the tombstones date from the turn of the first two decades of the 20th century.

Bibliography:

  • Hauser Zbigniew, „Podróże po cmentarzach Ukrainy”, t. IV, „Województwa: wołyńskie, podolskie, bracławskie i kijowskie”, Kraków 2009, s. 379-380.

Author:

Alicja Czuber-Filonik
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