Chapel of the Giesecké and Pertkiewicz families, Père-Lachaise cemetery, Paris (France), photo prof. Sławomir Górzyński, 2025 r.
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Chapel of the Giesecké and Pertkiewicz families

Paris | France

Père-Lachaise Cemetery

ID: NGR-019210-P/193532

Chapel of the Giesecké and Pertkiewicz families

Paris | France
Père-Lachaise Cemetery

A chapel with a pointed-arch entrance, surmounted by a sarcophagus roof surmounted by a cross inscribed in a circle, above the pointed-arch entrance a wall divided by a shelf, under the roof ventilators in the shape of a circle with inscribed crosses; inside a marble altar, above which a window with a stained-glass window in which a cross is inscribed, a pointed-arch cast-iron doorway, in the central part a slanting open-work grille, below in a bordered square a superimposed hourglass with wings and a wreath of poppies and poppy flowers.

Inscriptions: on the beam below the tympanum, above the entrance in a panel on a marble tablet (1), on a marble tablet, on the altar, with a photograph (2), on the antepedium of the altar (3), inside the chapel, on the left wall in a panel (4), inside the chapel, on the right wall in a panel (5).

Inscription:

1. FAMILLE GIESECKÉ //.
2. DIDIER / PERTKIEWICZ / 15-1-1942 - 25-5-1980 //.
3. MME GIESECKÉ, NÉE ELISA PAVILLET, / 24 OCTOBRE 1866 - 26 FÉVRIER 1931. / BERNARD PERTKIEWICZ, SON PETIT-FILS, / 14 OCTOBRE 1938 - 7 MAI 1939. / MR GIESECKÉ, / 5 NOVEMBRE 1861 - 10 JANVIER 1943. / STANISLAS PERTKIEWICZ / 13 MAI 1893 - 3 MAI 1959 //.
4. ICI REPOSENT / CHRÉTIEN HENRI JULES GIESECKÉ / DÉCÉDÉ LE 18 FÉVRIER 1876, / A L’ÂGE 49 ANS ET 5 MOIS, / REGRETTÉ DE SA VEUVE ET DE SES ENFANTS. / PRIEZ POUR LUI. / MME VVE GIESECKÉ, NÉE JOSÉPHINE GILLIARD, / DÉCÉDÉE LE 15 JUILLET 1911, À L’ÂGE DE 74 ANS. / ALICE GIESECKÉ, / 3 JUIN 1899 - 22 AOÛT 1928 //.
5. ICI REPOSENT / ELISE WYSS, NÉE GILLIARD, / DÉCÉDÉE LE 18 AVRIL 1893, / A L’ÂGE DE 54 ANS, / REGRETTÉE DE SON MARI, ET DE SES ENFANTS / PRIEZ POUR ELLE, / HÉLÈNE ELISA [s] WYSS / 3 AVRIL 1872 - 19 NOVEMBRE 1897. / JEAN ERNEST GERBAUD / DÉCÉDÉ LE 11 JUIN 1899, À L’ÂGE DE 59 ANS / REGRETTÉ DE SON ÉPOUSE, ET DE TOUTE SA FAMILLE / PRIEZ POUR LUI. //.

Related persons:

Stanisław Pertkiewicz

Tombstone location:

Sector number 46 Tomb number 123

Dimensions:

330 x 100 x 200 cm

Materials:

marble, limestone, cast iron, porcelain / faience / porcelite

Additional Information about materials:

white marble (interior), porcelain (photograph by Didier Pertkiewicz), cast iron (door)

Additional information:

concession no: CONSESSION À PERPÉTUITÉ 701 CC 1876

the concession was purchased on 20 February 1876 by Josephine Giesecké (buried 18 July 1911) for Jules Chretian Giesecké, who died on 18 February 1876.

location: div. 46, row 1 ch. Casariera, gr. 11 av. des Thuyas

Didier Michel Antoine Pertkiewicz (1942-1980), born 15 January 1942 in Courbevoie, died 26 May 1980 in the Republic of Gabon, buried 4 July 1980, transferred from Franceville (Gabon)

Bernard Pertkiewicz (1938-1939), born 14 October 1938 in Courbevoie, son of Stanislaw Pertkiewicz and Christine Giesecke (office worker), died at his residence at rue Anatole France 6 in Courbevoie, buried 10 May 1939.

Christine Giesecke, born 2 April 1911 in Colombes