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Lahishyn cemetery

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Lahishyn cemetery

The Roman Catholic cemetery is located in the south-eastern part of the village, on a slight hill. It was established at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries and is open. Its area, fenced with a wooden fence, covers about 2 hectares. In the central part of the cemetery there is an atypical cemetery chapel, consisting of four wooden pillars covered with a hipped roof. Inside it, a large wooden cross stands on its axis. Characteristic of the cemetery are the numerous stone gravestones made of granite boulders, ranging from 30 cm to 1 m in height. They are scattered throughout the cemetery, singly and in groups. This method of marking burials was used for more than 100 years. The oldest burial of this type (and at the same time the oldest in the cemetery) is the gravestone of Maria and Jan Kołb from 1801, while the youngest is the stone of Józef Poleski from 1909. In the central part of the cemetery an interesting cast-iron tomb, probably from the mid-19th century, without inscription, has been preserved. The burial chamber is covered with three cast-iron slabs, of which the central one, decorated with floral ornaments, kimation, rosettes and putti heads, is movable. The holes of the inscription letters have been preserved on it. Behind the slab is a cast-iron cross on a pedestal. The entire tomb is enclosed by a fence with geometric forms, four corner posts decorated with floral forms. In front, the fence bears the Orda coat of arms, belonging to the Orda family originating from the Pinsk region, so it is likely that members of this family rest in the tomb. The cemetery also contains military graves from the years 1916 - 1920, among them the graves of soldiers of the 34th Infantry Regiment killed in July 1919 and May 1920 (privates: Kiewel, Majewski, Kochanowicz).

In addition to the large Roman Catholic cemetery, there is also an old, disused Jewish cemetery in Łohiszyn, part of whose abandoned and neglected area is now used by the local population as a rubbish dump.

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:

Aleksandra Dąbkowska
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