Nowy Cmentarz Ewangelicki w Bielsku-Białej

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New Evangelical Cemetery in Bielsko-Biała - an active Evangelical cemetery located in Bielsko-Biała, at ul. November 92 on the northern outskirts of downtown. It was founded in 1911 on the outskirts of the city, behind the northern bypass (this area was bought by the evangelical commune in 1895). He replaced the old cemetery in Bielsko-Biała from 1833. The cemetery was designed by the Viennese architect Hans Mayr. The cemetery's space is divided into three sectors: * south-eastern with a parallel avenues north-eastern arranged around a semi-circular center with a centrally-driven alleys * north-west (reserve) separated from the rest by a wide avenue In the south-western part there is an architectural complex modeled on Italian campo santo - a rectangular courtyard surrounded by a team of auxiliary buildings, an arcaded wall and a cemetery church maintained in Late Baroque and Art Nouveau forms. On the New Evangelical Cemetery there are graves of many important figures from the first half of the Of the 20th century, including the mayor of Karol Steffan senior, the creator of the Bielsko-Biała museum of Edward Schnack, opera artist Felicja Kaszowska-Krotowska, all pastors of Bielsko after 1911, and numerous manufacturers such as Moritz Bartelmuss, Karol Büttner senior, Karol Geppert, Moritz Graubner, Gustaw Josephyego junior, Gustaw Molenda, Oswald Molenda, Walter Piesch (his grave is in the shape of tempietta mausoleum), Fryderyk Plutzar, Georg Schwabe, Ernest Starke, Karol Steffan junior, Ernest and Karol Stosius, Rudolf Twerdy, Leopold Vogt and Karol Zipser. There is also a memorial to soldiers who died during the First World War. [source: Wikipedia, 1696746]