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Cemetery in Šepetka

Szepetówka | Ukraine
ukr. Szepetiwka (Шепетівка)
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Cemetery in Šepetka

Szepetówka | Ukraine
ukr. Szepetiwka (Шепетівка)

The Catholic cemetery in Šepetka lies to the west of the centre and occupies an area of just over half a hectare. Although it is now fenced off, it was previously severely damaged. In 2019, a group of Polish youth from Ukraine carried out clean-up work https://polonika.pl/programy/programy-grantowe/programy-grantowe-instytutu/304082240 .

According to Zbigniew Hauser, the cemetery was established in the second half of the 19th century and was still active in the 1950s. The author lists 44 gravestones. The inscriptions are exclusively Polish. Most of the monuments are damaged and missing significant parts.

Particularly outstanding is the monument bearing the signature "Szepetówka B. Ginter", of Mieczyslaw and Maria of Ginter Niewiarowska (d. 1915) in the shape of a column on a plinth. Next to it is the gravestone of the author of the same monument, the stonemason Benjamin Ginter, who also died in 1915. The vast majority of the cemetery's gravestones are of stone, many of them without a cross. A few rock gravestones have also survived, as well as those in the form of columns. Of note are the poetic inscriptions - there is a particularly elaborate one on the gravestone of Mieczysław Butz, who died in 1906.

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

Bibliography:
  • „Cmentarze polskie poza granicami kraju” , raport, oprac. B. Gutowski, Warszawa 2022 (maszynopis).
  • Hauser Zbigniew, „Podróże po cmentarzach Ukrainy”, t. IV, „Województwa: wołyńskie, podolskie, bracławskie i kijowskie”, Kraków 2009, s. 206-208.
Author:
Bartłomiej Gutowski
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