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Belz cemetery

Based on the dates preserved on the tombstones, this cemetery was established in the 1st half of the 18th century. According to the website https://sztetl.org.pl/pl/miejscowosci/b/1191-belz/114-cmentarze/6750-cmentarz-zydowski-w-belzie-wul-mickiewycza, it held burial functions until the mid-19th century. The oldest gravestone is probably "a massive, archaic 'Podolski' cross with the inscription 'IMI / DOMI / Katarz(...) Mo(...) 1831'". This cemetery is still active, and thus maintained in a tolerable way, but with the old part neglected. A few alleys survive from its former layout. From Hauser's publication we also learn that deep inside the cemetery there is an 18th century wooden Greek-Catholic church, in front of whose bell tower there is a tombstone of six Latin rite parish priests, dating from the 18th to the 19th centuries. Also preserved is an eclectic cemetery chapel from the early twentieth century, with an epitaph by Father Władysław Honorski, 'doctor of theology, nephew of the chapel's founder, Father Marceli Chmura (d. 1914), papal chamberlain, dean of Belzec'.

Zbigniew Hauser mentions several gravestones, such as "(currently unnamed) a gravestone decorated with crossed sabres and a knight's helmet", the grave of Valentin Pieszkiewicz with an obelisk and "a bas-relief of a girl with two children standing under a cross".A stele with an acroterion surmounted by a high cross covered with drapery" adorning the grave of Józef Wielogórski or "a stele without a cross, with a decorative vase in a niche, on the grave of Julianna Maciejewska, née Piątkowska (d. 1852)"
Bibliography:
  • Hauser Zbigniew, „Podróże po cmentarzach Ukrainy”, t. III, „Dawna Małopolska Wschodnia. Województwo lwowskie (część wschodnia)", Kraków 2007, s. 17.
Author:
Wiktoria Grabowska
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