Tombstone of Czeslaw Kiernowicz, Rossa cemetery in Vilnius, as of 2014, photo autorzy karty, Domaine public
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Tombstone of Czeslaw Kiernowicz in Old Rossa in Vilnius, photo 1936, tous droits réservés
Source: archiwum rodziny, udostępnione dzięki uprzejmości p. Krzysztofa Kiewlicza

Fragment of the tombstone of Czeslaw Kiernowicz, Ross Cemetery in Vilnius, 2014 state, photo autorzy karty, Domaine public
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Tombstone of Czesław Kiernowicz

Vilnius | Lithuania
lit. Vilnius

Rossa Cemetery in Vilnius

$Galerie de l\'objet$ +3

Tombstone of Czeslaw Kiernowicz in Old Rossa in Vilnius

$Galerie de l\'objet$ +3

Fragment of the tombstone of Czeslaw Kiernowicz, Ross Cemetery in Vilnius, 2014 state

$Galerie de l\'objet$ +3

ID: NGR-009777-P

Tombstone of Czesław Kiernowicz

Vilnius | Lithuania
lit. Vilnius

The burial place marked by a diagonal stele on the front a plaque with a ritual inscription. The quatrefoil framed by a high band on which eight two-stepped pedestals connected by double bars. To the front left an entrance.

Inscription:

Ś. + P. / CZESŁAW / KIERNOWICZ / KAPRAL PODCHORĄŻY / PILOT RES. SP / LOTNICZEGO / ZM. ŚMIERCIĄ LOTNIKA / DN. 8 CZERWCA 1936 R. / W WIEKU LAT 24. / CZEŚĆ JEGO PAMIĘCI. //.

Related persons:

Czesław Kiernowicz

Time of origin:

1938-1939

Emplacement de la pierre tombale:

Numéro de secteur 13e (Stara Rossa) Numéro de la tombe 9

Dimensions:

40 x 38 x 40 cm

Additional dimensions:

fence: H 102, W 212, D 202 (cm)

Materials:

marble, concrete/jewel concrete, cast iron

Additional Information about materials:

stele, band and pedestals of concrete fence, marble inscription plaque, cast iron fence rods

Additional information:

According to the file of Lucjan Uziębła (card no. 155/15), the grave was originally marked by an oak cross with an aircraft propeller in a metal fence. Hence the dating can be slightly shifted. The memorial had been neglected for many years, and was later looked after on an ongoing basis by the late Jerzy Surwiło, who looked after the soldiers' graves. The fence of the tombstone was partially damaged by a broken tree. According to the Made in Vilnius portal : According to the historian Karolis Kučiauskas, in 1936, on 8 June, the Polish pilot Wlodzimierz Paprzycki and the Vilnius cadet Czeslaw Kiernowicz took off from Kirtim airfield (then called Porubanek) in a French Potez XV plane. The latter was assigned to pilot the aircraft. At fifteen-four in the afternoon, the residents of Vilnius, who were near the present-day A. Jakšto Street, heard a terrible sound - after an engine failure, the plane fell and hit the roof of the 9th building. The plane broke into pieces, pierced the roof and several floors of the building - the propeller then appeared in the teachers' room of the primary school. Only part of the plane's wing and two wheels were hanging over the street. A large piece of the fuselage was rolling down the middle of the street. According to witnesses interviewed at the scene, the pilots flew outside the barracks of the XNUMX Brigade (now the Northern City) and then headed towards the city. But here the plane's engine suddenly started to stall and shut down.

State of preservation:

mosses, lichens, cracks, cavities

Keywords:

stele

Date of documentation:

2014

Publikacja:

13.08.2022

Author of the documentation sheet:

Magdalena Luto, Dominika Macios

Development / approval of the documentation sheet:

Bartłomiej Gutowski, dr hab. Anna Sylwia Czyż, prof. ucz.