Cmentarz wojskowy w Brodnicy

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Military cemetery in Brodnica - closed military cemetery with graves of German, Polish and Russian soldiers [http://brodnica-online.pl/historia_miasto_bitwa.php Military cemetery in Brodnica] on brodnica-online.pl . [source: Wikipedia, 3904646]

History

The cemetery was founded in 1914 by the German authorities during the First World War as a military cemetery. German soldiers were being buried there since the end of November 1914. In 1920, the Polish part of the cemetery was established. The 9 Red Army soldiers who were killed in fighting for the city on August 18, 1920 were buried here. The current state of the necropolis is owed to the pre-war mayor of Brodnica, Mieczysław Jerzykiewicz, whose efforts at the cemetery built a chapel in the form of a monument. The author of her design was Ing. architect Kazimierz Ulatowski. Construction works were carried out under the supervision of Władysław Kasprowski. The cornerstone was consecrated on June 22, 1924 in the presence of the President of the Republic of Poland, Stanisław Wojciechowski, who at that time was visiting Brodnica on the occasion of presenting the banner for the 67th Infantry Regiment. The ceremonial opening of the military cemetery after the reconstruction took place on the seventh anniversary of the battle of Brodnica on August 18, 1927. Two surviving participants of the battle took part in the unveiling of the chapel-monument: colonel Witold Aleksandrowicz and count Ignacy Mielżyński (both commanded Polish troops during the battle), and Pomeranian governor Stanisław Młodzianowski. The chapel-monument from the front has four columns, in front of which rest two lions symbolizing the bravery, which were forged by a Bydgoszcz master, sculpted by Bronisław Kłobucki. A medallion with the image of Our Lady of Częstochowa is placed above the entrance. The top of the chapel was crowned with a metal cross. There are two marble (originally bronze) plaques with the names of the dead and a commemorative inscription in the chapel: In honor of the defenders of the threatened homeland and the liberators of our town who died in the cemetery during the Bolshevik invasion on August 18, 1920. grateful Brodnica. In the middle of the chapel between the boards of Colonel. During the unveiling, Aleksandrowicz hung his Virtuti Military Class V cross off his chest to commemorate his fallen subordinates . In 1943, during the Second World War, the third part of the necropolis was founded, on which German soldiers were buried, who died in field hospitals in Brodnica, or in sanitary trains during the return from the Eastern Front and those killed on January 21, 1945 in the battles for Brodnica from the advancing Red Army. The Red Army soldiers who died on that day were also buried here. battle (names of 137 Red Army soldiers are known). A commemorative obelisk was erected on this part of the cemetery. The last people buried in the military cemetery are two officers of the Security Office, who died on April 9, 1946, in the fight against the so-called reactionary underground. [source: Wikipedia, 3904646]

Accommodation

In general, the military cemetery in Brodnica is divided into the third quarters; * German: ** I - graves of 7 German soldiers buried on November 15, 1914. ** II-IV - graves of 25 or more German soldiers injured on the Eastern Front and the dead in a field hospital in Brodnica (1914-1915) and a few Bolsheviks. * Poland: ** V-XI - resting places of 31 Polish soldiers who died on August 18, 1920 during the Battle of Brodnica. ** 1-5 - personal tombstones of Polish soldiers and UB officers who died and died in 1934-1946. * Soviet: ** XIV-XV - gravestones on the graves of Soviet soldiers killed in the battles for Brodnica in 1945 (336 soldiers). ** 5. - monument in honor of the fallen soldiers of the Red Army. [source: Wikipedia, 3904646]

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