Tombstone of the Sikora family and Joahann Kantor

Karviná | Czech Republic

Evangelical cemetery in Karviná

ID: NGR-011738-P/85007

Tombstone of the Sikora family and Joahann Kantor

Karviná | Czech Republic
Evangelical cemetery in Karviná

Burial place originally marked by a cross on a two-stage plinth preceded by three slabs covering the grave cellar. The central slab rectangular, rounded. Cross with upper arm and transverse beam terminating in a two-leaf, the lower arm passing in rafters to a wide plinth.

Inscription:

1. KATARZYNA SIKORA / [...]/ /.
2. ANNA SIKORA / [...] / ANDRZEJ SIKORA / [...] 1859 + 5.12.1951/ JOHANNA KANTOR / 20.8.1895 + [...] 1.1975 //.

Time of construction:

after 1945

Emplacement de la pierre tombale:

Numéro de la tombe 39

Dimensions:

30 x 241 x 220 cm

Materials:

marble, terrazzo, porcelain / faience / porcelite

Additional Information about materials:

Plinth, band, plate - terrazzo, inscription plaque - marble; photograph - porcelain

State of preservation:

destruct, numerous cavities, mosses, cracks, fragmented structure, inscription illegible/not preserved, non-maintained finial

Comments on the state of preservation and visible restoration:

Cracked left corner of centre panel, collapse of panels. Right slab separated from middle slab. Stele overturned, separated from gravestone. Stele grown into the ground, making it impossible to accurately describe and read the inscription.