Cmentarz św. Mikołaja w Bydgoszczy

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Cemetery of St. Nicholas in Bydgoszcz - Catholic cemetery in Bydgoszcz. [source: Wikipedia, 1980748]

Location

The cemetery is located on the Kasztelanka estate in the Fordon district. The area of the cemetery is adjacent to the south-west of ul. Kasztelańska, and from the south-east with ul. Piast dynasty. [source: Wikipedia, 1980748]

History

The cemetery was established in 1929 as the third in the order belonging to the parish of St. Nicholas in Fordon. The first church cemetery, dating back to the first half of the 16th century, existed until the end of the 18th century. The second cemetery founded in the 1880s at ul. Cechowa, in 1990 it was taken over by the newly erected parish of St. John the Evangelist in Fordon, where the parish church was the former Evangelical church Gąsiorowski Bogdan Paweł, Zyglewski Zbigniew: Fordon Cemeteries [in] History of Fordon and the surrounding area. Collective work edited by Zdzisław Biegański. Kujawsko-Pomorskie Cultural Association. Bydgoszcz 1997. . Pozgorod Cemetery. The oldest cemetery belonging to the predecessor of the Forder parish - the parish of Saint. Mary Magdalene in Wyszogród was probably founded in the 12th century in a churchyard. However, the first written references come from the end of the 16th century. In 1584, the cemetery with the temple was renovated and equipped with a morgue. Burials were carried out on it until the 1960s and probably in the 19th century . Former church cemetery. The first mention in written sources about the Fordon Cemetery dates back to 1555. At the beginning of the 17th century, he had a morgue and a fence. In the 18th century, the cemetery had a large gate, three gates in the fence and filled the whole church square - the area around the temple and the current market area in Old Fordon. In 1745, a column with the figure of Saint. John of Nepomuk. The cemetery existed until the beginning of the 19th century, after which burials were abandoned on it, in accordance with the regulation of the Prussian authorities, which ordered the creation of cemeteries outside the city . Tombstones inside the parish church. In the period from the mid-sixteenth century to the end of the eighteenth century, in accordance with the common custom, well-deserved citizens were buried inside the parish church. In 1646, near the altar of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary, the burgher of Bardejan Tomasz Tarkowski was buried, and in the 18th century several people were buried in the church, including Regina Kotyńska. To this day, only the gravestone of Łukasz Wybranowski, coat of arms Poraj (died 1639), participant of the wars with Sweden and Russia, whose brother Wawrzyniec was the captain of King Stefan Batory, has survived. . Former parish cemetery. The new cemetery (at Cechowa Street) was founded after 1780, in connection with the custom of creating cemeteries outside the city from the west of Europe for health reasons and due to the scantiness of the place in church cemeteries. Until the end of the 1920s it was the main Catholic cemetery for the residents of Fordon and the surrounding area, and in 1990 it was handed over to the newly-created Catholic parish of Saint. Jana in Old Fordon . The current parish cemetery. The current parish cemetery of Saint. Nicholas was located to the northwest of the then city of Fordon. The reason for its establishment was to fill the cemetery at ul. Guild. The first burials in the new cemetery took place in 1929. In 1935 a cemetery chapel was erected by the foundation of Anna Szrejmowska and Jadwiga Proch. At the fence on the eastern side there is a historic cross on a pedestal with the inscription Souvenir from Walenty Rogalski and his wife Katarzyna Klofeińska in 1867. The cemetery is decorated with three stone bas-reliefs and a grotto with a figure of the Holy Virgin . The oldest graves are located on the avenue leading from the main gate to the chapel . In 1993, the cemetery and the chapel were entered into the register of monuments. [source: Wikipedia, 1980748]

Characteristic

The cemetery has a size of 140 x 140 m and an area of 1.9 ha. In 1996, 3.6 thousand were buried in its area. people WoĹşniak Zbigniew: Bydgoszcz cemeteries. [w.] Bydgoska Gospodarki Komunalna. Bydgoszcz 1996. . [source: Wikipedia, 1980748]