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Cemetery in Ogrodniki

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Cemetery in Ogrodniki

Cemetery with Polish gravestone monuments. Information about the cemetery has been published (see bibliography). According to Anna Lewkowska, Jacek Lewkowski and Wojciech Walczak, the church cemetery has a rectangular plan with a 19th century brick church in the middle. The cemetery has an area of 0.5 hectares, apart from the framed pillars the fence has not survived. To quote the aforementioned authors: "Together with the church, a cemetery was also created. The cemetery is dominated by burials from the 1st half of the 20th century. A dozen tombstones from the 2nd half of the 19th century have been preserved, located mostly around the church. Probably the oldest object in the cemetery is a tall brick tombstone in the form of a pillar chapel. Unfortunately, no inscription has survived to allow its dating. It can be hypothesised that it was created in the first half of the 19th century (...) The oldest gravestone with a legible inscription is the pedestal of red granite (overturned) on the grave of Petronela Łęska from 1857. The remaining gravestones from the 19th century do not represent high artistic value; they are typical eclectic horizontal or vertical slabs topped with an iron cross. Out of the 20th century gravestones, the most noteworthy one, situated to the right of the church entrance, is an impressive obelisk of black granite on the grave of Włodzimierz Krajewski from 1931 (...) The cemetery gives the impression of being neglected, but the condition of the gravestones is mostly good. Inscription from the tombstone of Petronela Łęska: Ś. P. PIETRUNELA ŁĘSKA / UM. Ru 1857 / I CURKI / WERONIKA OBORSKA / UM. 23. IV. 1864 R. AT THE AGE OF 75".

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, Dawid Mendrek
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