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Cemetery in Nový Dvůr

ID: dok-000839-P/96147

Cemetery in Nový Dvůr

Parish cemetery with Polish gravestone monuments. Documentation was made for the cemetery (3 cards stored in the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage). Information about the cemetery has been published (see bibliography). According to Anna Lewkowska, Jacek Lewkowski and Wojciech Walczak, the active Catholic cemetery has an area of 2.6 hectares, a rectangular plan and is surrounded by a stone wall. It was established in the first half of the 19th century and has the largest number of tombstones from the first half of the 20th century and contemporary tombstones. The oldest, from 1853, belongs to Aleksander Mikulski. Its inscription reads: "D. O. M. / OF THE HONOURABLE REMAINS / OF THE LATE ALEXANDER / MIKUSLKI / LIEUTENANT / OF THE POLISH ARMY / PRESIDENT OF THE HUMAN PTU / FROM HIS MOST DEVOTED WIFE / KAMILIA OF THE ORDS / AND MOST GRATEFUL CHILDREN DEDICATED / BORN IN 1791". MAY 11 D. DEPARTED THIS WORLD 1853. JANUARY 18". The cemetery also contains a wooden chapel built in the 2nd half of the 19th century. The cemetery is maintained in good condition

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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