Cmentarz ewangelicki w Brodnicy

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Evangelic Cemetery in Brodnica - closed Protestant cemetery from the end of the 16th century, located in Brodnica, currently on Erasmus Square. [source: Wikipedia, 3928226]

History

One of the oldest known cemeteries in Brodnica was the Evangelical cemetery, whose location corresponds to the location of today's Erazma Gliczner Square. His area was given to fellow believers in 1599 by Zofia Działyńska, a brothel. In this cemetery, buried, among others of a beloved writer and religious reformer Erasmus Gliczner (he died on January 26, 1603) and a brodnician elder, Princess Anna Wazówna (died on February 6, 1625), for whom a tomb was built in the central part of the necropolis, in which her body rested until the second solemn funeral, which took place on 16 July 1636 in Toruń. Anna's nephew, the King of Poland, Władysław IV Waza, led a nephew, Wazówna, the king of Poland, Zygmunt III Waza, and should be buried in the Wawel, but the Catholic Church objected to the decision, saying that Princess Anna did not renounce her Protestant faith on his deathbed. The cemetery was closed in 1798 due to its filling and the new one was established on Piaski (Evangelical cemetery on Sądowa St.). After closing the cemetery in the next century, the graves existing there were being set up by arranging a pitch in their place, an evangelical elementary school was also built there (6 Kościelna St.) and the evangelical old people's home (Kościelna 4 street). Currently, the area of the former cemetery is occupied by a municipal car park and the building of the former Evangelical school is, among others, pizzeria. The fact that there was a cemetery in this place centuries ago unfortunately does not inform any commemorative plaque. [source: Wikipedia, 3928226]