Cmentarz Komunalny w Cieszynie

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The Municipal Cemetery in Cieszyn at Katowicka Street was started in 1891, when the cemetery at the church of St. George from 1884. It is currently the largest necropolis of the city. The cemetery's assumption covers an area of 6.94 ha with sections of rectangular or square shape with numerous stands. In the oldest part, the departments were marked with antique cast-iron partition boards cast in the steelworks in Třinec. The main entrance to the cemetery leads through a decorative entrance gate in the style of the Austrian baroque with a dome, in which until 1950 there was a bell used during funerals. In the side walls of the gate are embedded two large reliefs depicting "Placing the grave" and "Resurrection of Christ". A funeral chapel and administrative building adjoin the gate. In the main avenue there is the Grave of the Sorrows, where were buried, among others Ludwik Brożek, Bronisław Czuma, Jan Foltyn, Józef Londzin, Karol Miarka, Gustaw Morcinek, Franciszek Popiołek, Paweł Stalmach, Ignacy Świeży, Maria Wardas and Wincenty Zając. Nearby is the memorial to the mayor of Cieszyn Johann Demel von Elswehr in the shape of a catafalque with a coffin issued in 1897. The cemetery also houses the quarters of World War I soldiers and a mass grave of 81 victims of Nazi executions at the Old Jewish Cemetery in Cieszyn. There are also quarters of deceased sisters and brothers of Cieszyn religious orders (including mother general Helena Tichy SCB ). Numerous German inscriptions on tombstones are destroyed. In the new part of the cemetery, on 10 December 2010, the ashes of Gwido Langer - co-creator of the success of the Enigma fracture. File: Municipal cemetery gate in Cieszyn2.JPG [source: Wikipedia, 432486]

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