Old Cemetery in Lodz - one of the most important necropolis in Lodz. The cemetery is three-denominational - divided according to the denominations into parts: Catholic (11 ha), Evangelical (9 ha) and Orthodox (less than 1 ha). [source: Wikipedia, 165876]
| type of the cemetery | multi-faith |
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History
The cemetery was founded in 1855, it is located at the intersection of Ogrodowa and SrebrzyĹska streets. Since 1995, periodically on November 1, a question is being carried out for the purpose of rescuing the monuments of the Cemetery. Since then, several dozen of the cemetery's buildings have been rescued and renovated. The initiator of this action was Wojciech SĹodkowski (a journalist from ĹĂłdĹş TV), who ran it every year until 2012. The collection now organizes, after its creation in 1999, the Society for the Care of the Old Cemetery which was presided over by the late StanisĹaw Ĺukawski (the senior guide of Lodz guides). In 2009, the documentary film Necropolis was created. Lodz three-partisans of shadows directed by Andrzej B. Czulda on the Old Cemetery, the history of ĹĂłdĹş and the most prominent figures forming this city during the factory period, and buried in this three-church cemeteries. In 2015, the Old Cemetery was declared a monument of history. [source: Wikipedia, 165876]
tombs
There are mausoleums of ĹĂłdĹş factory families - Grohman, Geyer, Kunitzer, Kindermann. The most magnificent of them in the Protestant part is the neo-Gothic mausoleum issued in 1885-1888 according to the design of Edward Lillpop and JĂłzef Pius DziekoĹski called the Scheibler Chapel, in which Karol Scheibler is buried. The neo-renaissance mausoleum of the Heinzl family, built in 1899-1904, in which Juliusz Heinzel was first burst, dominates the Catholic part. In the Orthodox part of the necropolis, primarily Russian tsarist soldiers and soldiers are buried; there is a GojĹźewscy mausoleum - the Chapel of the Resurrection of the Lord, belonging to the parish of the Orthodox Saint. Alexander Nevsky. Over 200 tombs here are entered in the register of monuments. Some graves in the Old Cemetery. * The grave of a small child sleeping on a pillow * Monument to Sophie Biedermann * Scheibler's Chapel * Heinzl's Chapel * The grave of the Heiman-Jarecki family * The tomb of Ernst Leonhardt * Mausoleum of the GojĹźewskis * a collective grave of 15 ĹDH scouts who drowned on July 18, 1948 on Lake Gardno [source: Wikipedia, 165876]
