Cmentarz wojenny nr 67 Ropica Ruska

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War Cemetery No. 67 - Ropica Ruska - an Austrian cemetery from World War I, designed by Hans Mayr, located in the southern part of the village of Ropica Górna (formerly Ropica Ruska), in the Gorlice poviat, in the Sękowa commune. One of over 400 Western-Galician war cemeteries built by the Cemetery Graves Division of the C. and K. Military Commanders in Krakow. The cemetery is located at the foot of the Kornuta hill, on a meadow about 100 meters from the Bartne-Ropica Górna road. The cemetery has a rectangular shape with an area of about 400 m. It is surrounded on four sides by a fence made of hewn stone. In the middle of the fence, from the north, there is a wooden entrance gate. The graves are marked with gravestones in the form of cast-iron crosses from 1915 on concrete platforms. In the central part there is a concrete cross placed on a stone plinth made of the same stone as the fence. 83 soldiers in 7 mass graves and 2 individual killed on May 2, 1915, Austro-Hungarian citizens, all from the 28th Regiment of Infantry of the Landwehr in the vast majority of Czech nationality are buried in the cemetery. The names of all the buried are known. According to local tradition, soldiers buried here to death in the trenches during the winter of 1914 are buried here. At the end of the 20th century, the family of one of the buried Josef Prochazka (9.7.1882 - 2.5.1915) set a gravestone in the cemetery with a cross covered with a brass hat. On some maps and in the field (information board) it is numbered 68. [source: Wikipedia, 2404335]

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