Cmentarz ewangelicki w Brodnicy przy ul. Sądowej

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Evangelic Cemetery in Brodnica - closed Protestant cemetery from the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, located in Brodnica at ul. Forensic. [source: Wikipedia, 3908360]

History

After closing the oldest evangelical cemetery in Brodnica located within the city walls (currently the Erasmus Gliczner Square) on the initiative of Fr. Gottlieb Bernhard Powalski was founded a new cemetery on the so-called Piaski near the road leading to Grudziądz, now the corner of Sądowa and Cmentarna Streets [http://www.brodnica-online.pl/cmentarze_ewangelickie.php Cemeteries ewangelickie] on brodnica-online.pl . The consecration of the new necropolis took place on July 6, 1798 at 14.00. It coincided with the first burial. The 58-year-old widow of the merchant Florentine Heyne was buried then. The last person buried in this cemetery, mentioned in the book of deaths of the Evangelical parish in Brodnica, was Erika Grube from Hamburg, who died on 18 August 1944 in Brodnica . In the spring of 1945, the Evangelical cemetery was profaned by the Red Army soldiers. The communist authorities of the city of Brodnica and some of its new inhabitants, who began to undress a brick wall, which surrounded the cemetery from 1903 on three sides, also excavated graves and robbed the coffins, also contributed to the total destruction of the necropolis after the war. Formally, the Evangelical cemetery existed until September 17, 1956. After 21 years since its closure in the 1970s, the area was completely chased, removing the remains of the surviving tombstones, then the grass was planted . The only original tombstone that survived this fire is a grave in the shape of a regular, about 3-meter high stone pyramid. On a cast-iron plaque in his recess there is a philosophy written in Latin, about life, passing away and death, and information about the deceased. We learn from her that Leopold Fryderyk Dittmer, a Brodnica doctor and surgeon, was buried in the tomb. It is known from historical sources that he died of cholera, which he contracted to help ill people. The cholera epidemic was dragged into the Kingdom by tsarist soldiers whose regiments directed to suppress the November Uprising also came from the border with India. The general-field marshal Iwan Dybicz also died on cholera. The plague came to Brodnica together with Polish November insurgents interred in the city after crossing the border with Prussia in July 1831. Probably they got infected from the Russians during the fights. In October 2001, a memorial obelisk was set here as a symbol of memory and reverence for the dead. [source: Wikipedia, 3908360]

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