Cmentarz w Dziekanowie

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The cemetery in DziekanĂłw - a necropolis in DziekanĂłw, created for the needs of the local Uniate parish, then used by the Orthodox parish, and from the 1980s - by Latin Rite Catholics. [source: Wikipedia, 3688161]

History and description

The cemetery was founded in the first half of Nineteenth century for the needs of the local Uniate population, replacing the previously used necropolis at the church of the Care of the Mother of God in Dziekanów. After the liquidation of the Uniate Chełm diocese, together with the local church, it was renamed as an Orthodox church D.Kalewki, Cemeteries ..., pp. 71-72. . It was used by the local Orthodox population until the end of World War II and the deportation of Orthodox Ukrainians, then for several decades it was abandoned. In the 1980s, Catholics began using the cemetery, arranging their quarters in the western part of the necropolis . According to another source, the cemetery was treated before the Second World War by the entire population of Dziekanowa (both the Orthodox majority and the Catholic minority) as common property. There is a grave chapel of the Grotthus family in the cemetery, erected in 1851. It is a brick, rectangular building, plastered, with five epitaph plaques embedded in the wall of the building. It is covered with a gable roof with onion dome. The chapel was renovated in 1990-1996. Since 1972 has the status of a monument . In addition to the chapel, there are 38 cast-iron and stone tombstones from before 1945, ten of which were destroyed. They have the form of Orthodox or Latin crosses set on rectangular pedestals, pedestals imitating stone mounds or pedestal-shaped pedestals. The individual gravestones have the shape of vertical stella or horizontal plates. Grave inscriptions were made in the Church of Slavonic language. Tombstones are decorated with acroterions, cornices and tympanums. Clones, birches, ash trees and limes grow in the cemetery . [source: Wikipedia, 3688161]

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