War Cemetery No. 311 Nowy Wiśnicz - a historic cemetery from World War I located in the village of Nowy Wiśnicz in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in the Bochnia poviat, in the Nowy Wiśnicz commune. It is one of 400 Western-Galician war cemeteries built by the Cemetery Graves Division of the C. and K. Military Commanders in Krakow. Of this number, there are 46 cemeteries in the Bochnia district
| type of the cemetery | war |
| state of the cemetery | closed |
| [source: Wikipedia, 2434382] |
History
Soldiers of the Russian and Austrian-Hungarian army were buried here, who died in fighting in the surrounding areas in December 1914 during the Limanowa-Pawanska operation, and in field hospitals. The Russians occupied Rajbrot and the surrounding areas as early as November 11, 1914. The contemporary commentators write: "The Muslims appear, who, like a swarm, occupy almost all houses." They were preparing to gain the fortifications of Krakow. The battle ended with the victory of Austrian troops who stopped the Russian offensive towards Krakow and Silesia. At the cemetery in Nowy Wiśnicz, a total of 191 soldiers were buried in 4 single and 20 collective tombs [ : * 51 Austro-Hungarian soldiers from the 11th Infantry Regiment, 25 Infantry Regiment, Landworld Regiment, 33 Regiment of Rifles, 3 Sanitary Division, * 140 Russian. 186 soldiers are unidentified in this number ]
Position
The cemetery is located in the municipal cemetery in Nowy Wiśnicz, about 700 m from the intersection of roads in the center of Nowy Wiśnicz. It is on a small hill, on the left side of the road No. 965 from Nowy Wiśnicz to Bochnia
Description of the cemetery
It consists of two lodgings. The first one (bottom) is located next to the main entrance gate to the cemetery, the second one (upper one) in its northern corner. The fence of both consists of concrete pillars on a low concrete foundation, and between the posts there are two steel pipes. The central decorative element is located only on the upper quarters. It is a concrete, low monumental wall topped with a concrete Latin cross. There is a decorative ornament in the form of a wreath of laurel leaves. In the past there was a cast-iron cross in the middle of the rim [ : * on the tombstones of Russian soldiers, larger, openwork and cast-iron Lorraine crosses with the motif of a lime leaf, * on the tombstones of Austrian soldiers larger, openwork and cast-iron Latin crosses. At the joining of beams they have a Maltese cross * smaller Latrarian crosses made of steel flat bars, * smaller Latin crosses made of steel flat bars. On the upper quarters there is also a tombstone of a non-commissioned officer of the German military police who died in 1944 for a heart attack, and outside, next to the fence, a high concrete obelisk commemorating Soviet soldiers who died during World War II was erected. ][ . [source: Wikipedia, 2434382]]
