Cmentarz wojenny nr 373 Wi¶niowa

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War Cemetery No. 373 - Wiśniowa - an Austrian war cemetery from the period of World War I, built by the War Cemetery Department of the C. and K. Military Command Office in Kraków and located in its X Limanowa district. Soldiers of both fighting parties, killed on December 3-6, 1914, in the battle in the Krzyworzeki Valley, in the initial phase of the pawan-Limanowa operation, were buried in the place where they died. It was not until 1916, on the eastern slope of Dziadkówka Hill, that a cemetery was built and soldiers' ashes were buried on it, from accidental burial sites. The necropolis is located in the southern part of Wiśniowa, in the Jurkówka hamlet, on the edge of a small forest, on the hill slope above the provincial road No. 964 leading to Kasina Wielka, approx. 600 m west of the war cemetery No. 374. 29 soldiers were buried there Hungarian and 10 Russian soldiers. The cemetery, now entered in the register of monuments, was designed by Gustaw Ludwig. File: I WW Military cemetery 373 Wisniowa, cross, Poland.JPG [source: Wikipedia, 2049105]