PowÄ
zkowski Cemetery, customarily Stare PowÄ
zki - a historic necropolis in Warsaw. Located in the present Wola district, between Okopowa, PowÄ
zkowska, Tatarska and Jana Ostroroga streets. The Metropolitan Curia of Warsaw supervises it, which is represented by the cemetery management. The social guardianship committee is the Social Committee for the Care of the Old PowÄ
zki. The whole area of the cemetery - a treasury of sculpture and small architecture - was strictly conserved, subject to the Warsaw Monument Conservator. The cemetery is located on the odd side of ul. PowÄ
zkowska, at number 1, and its administration is opposite, at number 14. [source: Wikipedia, 44149]
| type of the cemetery | religious |
| state of the cemetery | active |
| [source: Wikipedia, 44149] |
History
The cemetery was founded on November 4, 1790, on a plot of land donated by the Szymanowski family. It was devoted to May 20, 1792 and initially it occupied an area of about 2-2.5 ha. In 1792 the construction of the church of St. Charles Boromeusz, founded by the clergy of Warsaw, and designed by Dominik Merlini. Even before the dedication of the cemetery, so-called catacombs. The cemetery was enlarged many times and today it occupies 43 ha. During World War II, the necropolis itself did not suffer too much, but at the end of the war, the church and the buildings of the chancellery burnt down (including a cemetery archive). During the occupation, the Home Army was active in the cemetery - there were weapons depots, military lectures were held, food was smuggled through the cemetery wall into the Warsaw ghetto. Among the buried about 1 million people, there are many well-known and distinguished people, including soldiers of national uprisings from the Kosciuszko Insurrection to the Warsaw Uprising, independence activists, outstanding writers, poets, scholars, artists, thinkers, doctors, lawyers, clerics. Some of them rested in the Avenue of Meritorious Persons founded in 1925. After 1945, a mausoleum was organized in the catacomb building, where the ashes of the murdered in the concentration camps were laid. In 2012, a brick wall separated the Old PowÄ
zki from the Jewish cemetery in Wola; about 70 gravestones were destroyed. In July 2014, the cemetery, along with five other necropolises forming a complex of historic religious cemeteries in PowÄ
zki, was considered a historical monument. [source: Wikipedia, 44149]
