War Cemetery No. 347 - Barcice - a historic war cemetery from the First World War, located in Barcice, in the commune of Stary SÄ…cz, in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship. It belongs to the X (Limanowa) Circle of the Cemetery Graves C and K. Commandant's Office in Krakow. It is one of 400 cemeteries of this branch, of which there are 36 in the Limanowa region
| type of the cemetery | war |
| state of the cemetery | closed |
| [source: Wikipedia, 3071331] |
History
In November 1914, the Russian army, General Alexei Brusilov, occupied all of this area, advancing south towards the Carpathians. On December 7, commanded by General Svetozar Boroević, the 3rd Austro-Hungarian Army went on the offensive and on December 11th, her units displacing the Russian army reached the foreground of Nowy Sącz. 42 soldiers were buried in the cemetery in Barcice, among them [ J. Drogomir.Polegli in Galicia Zachodnie 1914-1915 (1918): lists of the dead and the dead buried in 400 military cemeteries in Western Galicia, Tarnów: Muzeum Okręgowe, 2005 ] : * 5 soldiers of the Russian army, * 37 soldiers of the Austro-Hungarian army from the 13th Infantry Regiment, 32nd and 34th Infantry Regiment, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 9th Dragoon Regiment, 13th Lancers Regiment, 30th Rifle Regiment. Among them was a Pole named Zaręba-Cielęcki [source: Wikipedia, 3071331]
Description of the cemetery
The war cemetery in Barcice is located in the parish cemetery and constitutes a separate quarters, located just off the main road. A low stone wall, covered with a concrete roof separates it from the pavement of this road. The remaining part of the fence of the cemetery's quarters are posts (on the brick corners, the remaining ones are concrete), between which low thick iron chains are hung. The gate is a low iron gate between two concrete pillars [ . The designer of the cemetery was Gustav Ludwig. The main decorative element is a stone-built obelisk built into the cemetery wall separating it from the pavement. From the side of the pavement a large openwork iron cross (one-armed, Latin-type) was mounted on it, from the side of the cemetery on the obelisk there is the second, the same cross, under it a different, smaller one. Within the cemetery's quarters there are single and collective graves with low concrete tombstones with plaques topped with cast-iron crosses. They are crosses of two kinds; one-armed Latin type and two-armed type Lorraine type ][ . The cemetery is in very good condition ][ . [source: Wikipedia, 3071331]]
