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Parish cemetery in Gręboszów
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Necropolis from about 1850 — commemorative crosses, the tomb of the Bzowskis and the war quarters.
The cemetery is located in the northern part of the village on an elongated polygon plan; it was founded around 1850 (the oldest preserved tombstone — Anna Kisielewska, d. 1864). Today it occupies about 2 ha.
By the main alley there are two commemorative crosses from about 1759 on decorated pedestals — After conservation, they have retained outstanding artistic values. The Bzowski tomb has a classicist form aedicule on two columns with a triangular gable (Janotowie-Bzowski).
In the rear part, there is a separate war headquarters from 1914–1915, designed by Johann Watzal. A total of about 195 soldiers (m.in 112 from the Austro-Hungarian army and 83 Russian armies) and a mass grave of legionnaires were buried here; there are also later graves of a soldier from 1939. The gate of the headquarters is crowned, m.in, by a fragment of the wall with a monumental gate (approx. 5.5 m high). Funeral customs and a description of the necropolis from the beginning of the twentieth century are contained in the monograph [Ruins from Gremboszów] (/exhibits/crumbs-gremboszowa-1911/) by Jakub Bojko (1911) — m.in. wreaths on coffins, mourning scarves and the former cemetery chapel (until 1872).
More on the municipality website: greboszow.pl
