Cemetery in Hruszówka

Cemetery in Hruszówka

Cemetery with the Rejtans' burial chapel. Information about the cemetery has been published (see bibliography). As Lewkowski and Walczak write, in Hruszówka there is "a neo-Gothic burial chapel of the Rejtan family. (...) Around the chapel there is a rectangular cemetery field, surrounded by a plastered brick wall covering an area of approx. 850 m2. (...) The chapel is built of brick, plastered, with rusticated elevations. Built on a rectangular plan with a trilateral closed apse. (...) The single-space interior is completely destroyed, fragmentary ribs of the mesh vault have been preserved. Crypt destroyed, floor and ceiling on crypt torn off. At present it is a huge open space up to the crypt floor. In the north-east corner of the cemetery field is a large granite boulder with an oval metal plaque with a commemorative text hanging from a chain at the top: "/ TADEUSZ REJTAN / SON OF THIS LAND / BORN 20.08.1742. IN HRUSZÓWKA AND DIED HERE / 8.08.1780. AS A MEMBER OF THE NOVGOROD SEJM / WARSAW SEJM 1773. PROTESTED AGAINST / APPROVAL OF THE FIRST PARTITION OF THE REPUBLIC / OF POLAND. PERSECUTED FOR THIS ACT, HE PAID FOR THE MISFORTUNE / OF HIS HOMELAND WITH HIS HEALTH AND LATER WITH HIS LIFE. / WAS A MODEL OF PATRIOTISM FOR MANY GENERATIONS / OF POLES. HONOUR HIS MEMORY."

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

Publication:

22.09.2022

Last updated:

20.01.2025

Author:

Bartłomiej Gutowski, Dawid Mendrek
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