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Cemetery in Swojatycze

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Cemetery in Swojatycze

Cemetery with Polish gravestone monuments. Information about the cemetery has been published (see bibliography).

According to Anna Lewkowska, Jacek Lewkowski and Wojciech Walczak, there is a cemetery in Swojatycze by the St Joseph Church. It has an area of 0.2 ha and is surrounded by a metal fence. Two tombstones have survived on it, one of which is unknown. The other has the following inscription: "JAN / KONARZEWSKI / KAW. ORD. / VIRTUTI MILITARI / FALLEN ON 11 V R. / 1919 / AT THE AGE OF 31 / HONOUR YOUR MEMORY / DEAREST HUSBAND". Quoting the aforementioned authors, it is worth adding that "in the ground floor of the southern elevation [of the church], near the corner, there is a fragment of a granite gravestone with a legible inscription: "R. 1849 L. 93 / ZOFIA Z OBU. HRA. (...)". This is probably a fragment of a slab from the tombstone of Zofia Obuchowiczowa, daughter of Michał, castellan of Minsk, and wife of Stanislaw Czapski, a colonel in the Polish army."

Lewkowski and Walczak also describe a second cemetery in Swojatycze. The Catholic cemetery is located in the eastern part of the village. It has the plan of an elongated polygon of 1.3 ha area surrounded by a metal fence. It is divided into two parts: the older, western - Catholic (0.8 ha) and the newer eastern - Orthodox. Several tens of tombstones from the second half of the 19th century and the early 20th century have survived. Most are graves from the 1st half of the 20th century. The oldest, from 1831, belongs to Father Leon Sierakowski. The inscription reads: "D. O. M. / XIEDZU LEONOWI / SIERAKOWSKIEGO DZIEK. STWOŁOWICKI, PARISH PRIEST. SWOJATYCKIE / year 1831 MAY7 DIED HERE / THIS MEMORY IS SACRIFIED / THE COLLECTOR". There is also a 19th century brick cemetery chapel in the cemetery.

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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