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Pinsk cemetery

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Pinsk cemetery

The Roman Catholic cemetery was probably established in the early 19th century. It is located in the north-western part of the town on Gajdenki Street. The site is located within a larger cemetery complex, which also contains Orthodox and Jewish burials separated by alleys. The Roman Catholic cemetery occupies the western part of the establishment, the area of which is about 9 ha. The part with Catholic tombstones alone is approximately 4 ha in size. The cemetery layout is fenced. The cemetery was devastated in the post-war period, but in the 1990s the tombstones, many of which show great historical and artistic value, were tidied up and cleaned. In the cemetery are the foundations of the cemetery chapel, built on a rectangular plan, which was burnt and destroyed in the 1960s. Near the chapel are tombstones from the 1st half of the 19th century. The oldest gravestone is an irregular stone slab of Jan Wiszniak from 1830. Another one of great historical and artistic interest is a massive cast-iron cippus on a stone base, covered with a hipped roof, dating from 1839. It is the tombstone of Aleksander Butrymowicz, son of Jan, a descendant of the powerful family of Judge Mateusz Butrymowicz - owner of the Pinsk palace and manager of the royal estates in the Pinsk region. At the very foundations of the chapel is the granite slab of Julia of Jaholinskaya Vendlova from 1844. In this area there are also three identical cast-iron pedestals topped with a cross, belonging to members of the Rummel family from 1847 - 1857. In the cemetery there are many tombstones dating from the 2nd half of the 19th century. Most of them are cast iron slabs, cippus and pedestals topped with a cross. Two of the most interesting from this period are brick tombstones. The first is the burial of Jan Chomiński from 1875, in the type of a two-storey pillar chapel, square in plan, covered with a hipped roof. The second gravestone, also of the square-shaped chapel type, belongs to Jerzy Osmołowski (d. 1879).

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, Aleksandra Dąbkowska
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