Cmentarz wojenny nr 126 Florynka

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War Cemetery No. 126 - Florynka - historic cemetery from World War I located in the village of Florynka, in the Grybów commune, in the Nowy Sącz poviat, in the Lesser Poland voivodship, designed by Hans Mayr. One of over 400 Western-Galician war cemeteries built by the Cemetery Graves Division of the C. and K. Military Commanders in Krakow. It belongs to the III Cemetery District of Gorlice. [source: Wikipedia, 3849776]

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The cemetery is located in the center of Florynki on the eastern side of the GrybĂłw-Krynica road. The object has a rectangular shape with a flattened arch on the east side, with a fenced area of about 120 m. The cemetery is surrounded by a fence with concrete pillars connected with iron rails with a metal gate from the west. In the center of the building there is a stone column topped with a sculpture of falcon flying to the flight. On the pedestal, an inscription plate in German and Hungarian, and on its backbone a Latin cross. Two mass graves without tombstones in front of the monument. 94 soldiers in 2 mass graves were buried in the cemetery Oktawian Duda Cemeteries of the First World War in Western Galicia 1914-1918 - Studies and materials, Center for the Protection of the Historic Landscape, Warsaw 1995, pp. 179,448 : * 80 Austro-Hungarian soldiers * 14 Russian soldiers killed in 1914. [source: Wikipedia, 3849776]

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