Cmentarz wojenny nr 137 Ciężkowice

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War Cemetery No. 137 - Ciężkowice - a cemetery from World War I, located in Ciężkowice in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in the Tarnów poviat, the seat of the rural and rural commune of Ciężkowice. It is one of 400 Western-Galician war cemeteries built by the Cemetery Graves Division of the C. and K. Military Commanders in Krakow. In the 4th district of Łużna, there are 27 cemeteries. [source: Wikipedia, 2434293]

Description of the cemetery

It was designed by the Polish architect Jan Szczepkowski as a separate plot in the parish cemetery. It is located on a slightly sloping slope and has the shape of an asymmetrical parallelogram. Three sides of the cemetery are fenced with a low stone wall covered with a concrete roof. The fourth side of the road has a fence in the form of concrete pillars connected with metal chains. This type of solution with chains does not occur on any of the cemeteries of the 4th district of Łuşna. In this side there is an entrance to the cemetery. The main decorative element is the monument in the form of a stone gate-altar located in the wall opposite the entrance. It is crowned with a small Latin cross, on the front wall from the side of the cemetery there is a bas-relief of Christ's head with a crown of thorns and two name plates, and a wooden cross on the outer wall. Graves spread in four parallel rows. Tombstones in the form of low concrete plinths with metal crosses. In the lower part of the crosses there are metal frames for plates with the names of fallen soldiers, but there are no plates. In addition to single plinths, there are triple plinths with three crosses (so-called triads). [source: Wikipedia, 2434293]

the fallen

78 Austro-Hungarian soldiers were buried here, 4 German and 2 Russian ones in 4 collective graves and 55 individual graves. 53 Austrian soldiers were identified, the others are unknown. Most of them died in December 1914 and in April 1915. [source: Wikipedia, 2434293]