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Cemetery in Dzisna

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Cemetery in Dzisna

An active Catholic cemetery, established in the first half of the 19th century, located approximately 900 m., west of the town centre. The rectangular-plan cemetery, located on a slight hill, covers an area of 1.3 ha and is fenced with a wooden fence with brick pillars, with two entrances on the southern side. On the west side is the area of the new cemetery (created after 1945), an irregular path separates the old and new cemetery. There is no division into alleys and plots, the graves are distributed freely throughout the cemetery. People of merit to the surrounding towns are laid to rest in the cemetery, and the site itself is in good, well-kept condition. Near the gate is the brick cemetery chapel, rectangular in plan. The oldest gravestone in the cemetery, located near the chapel - the gravestone of Dominika of Obrąpalska Śmigielska from 1836, made of pink granite, has the form of a rectangular tombstone, topped with a segmented arch. At the top of the slab there is a bas-relief cross and underneath it the inscription: /There rests Ś. P./ DOMINIKA/ Z OBRĄPALSKICH/ ŚMIEGIELSKA/ ZM. 29 SEPTEMBER 1835/ AT THE AGE OF 36/ ASKS FOR A SIGH TO GOD/.
The active cemetery is located in the forest, on the south-eastern edge of the village. It contains a dozen concrete and terrazzo tombstones with inscriptions in Russian and Hebrew symbols. The matzevot there date from 1945 to the 1990s.
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:

Bartłomiej Gutowski, Salomea Grabowska
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