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Cemetery in Dvorzhchy

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Cemetery in Dvorzhchy

Cemetery with Polish gravestone monuments. Information about the cemetery has been published (see bibliography). According to Anna Lewkowska, Jacek Lewkowski and Wojciech Walczak, "the disused Catholic cemetery is located on the western edge of the village (...). It is laid out on a roughly rectangular plan (...) with no division into plots. It covers an area of 0.3 ha. The cemetery was established around the mid-19th century, the older part of the cemetery being the northern side. The original size of the cemetery is indicated by the remains of a stone fence and visible traces of the foundations of the cemetery chapel (...). There was a wooden chapel erected here in 1591 by Garcias Alabianus, the rector of the College of Vilnius. (...) In 1770, the ruined chapel was rebuilt by the Jesuits. It survived until the 1850s. On the same site, a new chapel was built in 1860 by the then owner of the estate, Aleksander Wolski. (...) In June 1941, the Red Army burnt down the chapel and several peasant homesteads. (Only a few tombstones from the second half of the 19th century remain in the cemetery. The oldest, in the form of a granite pedestal with a simple cross, marks the burial place of Andrzej and Zofia Łyskawek. The inscription: 'ANDRZEJ AND ZOFIJA / ŁYSKAWKÓW / DEAD ANDRZEJ / W 1874 R. LIVED AGED 69 / ZOFJA LIVED AGED 44 DIED 1869 / A MEMENTO FROM HER CHILDREN".

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, Dawid Mendrek
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