Powązki Cemetery

Powązki Cemetery
Cmentarz Powązkowski
Example of lavish tombstones at the cemetery
Details
Established	4 November 1790[1]
Location	Warsaw
Country	Poland
Coordinates	52°15′07″N 20°58′22″E / 52.25194°N 20.97278°E / 52.25194; 20.97278
Type	Public
Size	43 hectares (110 acres)[1]
No. of graves	over 1 million[2]
Website	Unofficial website
Find a Grave	Powązki Cemetery

Powązki Cemetery (Polish pronunciation: [pɔˈvɔ̃skʲi]; Polish: Cmentarz Powązkowski), also known as Stare Powązki (English: Old Powązki), is a historic necropolis located in Wola district, in the western part of Warsaw, Poland. It is the most famous cemetery in the city and one of the oldest, having been established in 1790. It is the burial place of many illustrious individuals from Polish history. Some are interred along the "Avenue of the Distinguished" – Aleja Zasłużonych, created in 1925. It is estimated that over 1 million people are buried at Powązki.^[2]

The cemetery is often confused with the newer Powązki Military Cemetery, which is located to the north-west of Powązki Cemetery.

History

Powązki Cemetery was established on 4 November 1790 on land donated by nobleman

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Notable burials

A few of the notables buried here are:

• Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska (1834–1861), composer
• Izabela Barcińska née Chopin, (1811–1881), younger sister of
  Fryderyk Chopin
• Anna Bilińska
  (1857–1893), painter
• Wojciech Bogusławski (1757–1829), writer, actor, director
• Stefan Bryła (1886–1943), notable for first welding bridge-Maurzyce Bridge
• Jan Gotlib Bloch (1836–1902), banker, railroad entrepreneur, philanthropist, economist, economist and social activist
• Emilia Chopin (1812–1827), youngest sister of
  Fryderyk Chopin
• Fryderyk Chopin
• Fryderyk Chopin
• Fryderyk Chopin
• Halina Chrostowska (1929–1990), printmaker, activist, and educator
• Gerard Antoni Ciołek (1909–1966), architect and historian of gardens
• Ignacy Dobrzyński (1807–1867), composer
• Jerzy Duszyński (1917–1978), actor
• Fryderyk Chopin
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• Władysław Filipkowski (1892–1950), military commander
• Pola Gojawiczyńska (1896–1963), writer
• Józef Gosławski
  , (1908–1963), sculptor and medallic artist
• Marceli Godlewski (1865–1945), Righteous Among the Nations
• Leopold Janikowski (1855–1942), meteorologist, explorer and ethnographer
• Stanisław Janikowski (1891–1965), Polish diplomat
• Stefan Jaracz (1883–1945), actor
• Jan Kiepura (1902–1966), singer and actor
• Krzysztof Kieślowski (1941–1996), film director
• Jan Kiliński (1760–1819), freedom fighter
• Stefan Kisielewski (1911–1991), art critic and writer
• Stanislava Klimashevskaya (1851–1939), photographer and studio owner
• Tomasz Knapik (1943–2021), film, radio and television reader
• Krzysztof Komeda (1931–1969), jazz composer
• Alfred Kowalski (1849–1915), painter
• Henryk Kuna (1885–1945), sculptor
• Witold Lutosławski (1913–1994), composer
• Józefat Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1789–1850), painter-artist
• Maciej Masłowski (1901–1976), art historian
• Stanisław Masłowski (1853–1926), painter-artist
• Witold Małcużyński (1914–1977), classical pianist
• Stefan Mazurkiewicz (1888–1945), co-founder of the Warsaw school of mathematics
• Jerzy Mierzejewski (1917–2012), artist and pedagogue
• Stanisław Moniuszko (1819–1872), composer
• Janusz Nasfeter (1920–1998) – film director and screenwriter; moved in 2018 from the Służew Old Cemetery
• Ola Obarska (1910–1992), singer and actress
• Antoni Osuchowski (1849–1928), philanthropist and national activist
• Piotr Pawlukiewicz (1960–2020), Roman Catholic priest, doctor of pastoral theology
• Lech Pijanowski (1928–1974), film-maker and game designer
• Jerzy Pniewski (1913–1989), physicist^[3]
• Bolesław Prus (1847–1912), journalist and novelist
• Grzegorz Przemyk (1964–1983), poet murdered by Milicja Obywatelska
• Kazimierz Pużak (1883–1950), died in the Communist prison, secretly buried in Powązki
• Halina Regulska (1899–1994), racing driver, socialite, author, member of Polish resistance movement in World War II
• Władysław Reymont (1867–1925), Nobel Prize-winning novelist
• Edward Rydz-Śmigły (1886–1941), politician, statesman, Marshal of Poland and Commander-in-Chief of Poland's armed forces
• Ireneusz Roszkowski (1910–1996), gynaecologist
• Irena Sendlerowa (1910–2008), head of Children's Section of the Żegota
• Wacław Sierpiński (1882–1969), mathematician
• Andrzej Sołtan (1897–1959), physicist
• Zbigniew Ścibor-Rylski (1917–2018), military commander, participant of the Warsaw Uprising
• Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski
  (1893–1964), general
• Władysław Tryliński (1878–1956), transportation engineer and inventor
• Jerzy Waldorff (1910–1999), art critic and one of the benefactors of the Cemetery
• Melchior Wańkowicz (1892–1974), writer
• Henryk Wieniawski (1835–1870), composer
• Kazimierz Wierzyński (1894–1969), poet and writer
• Stanisław Wigura (1901–1932), aircraft designer and aviator
• Stanisław Wojciechowski (1869–1953), president of Poland
• Aleksander Zelwerowicz (1877–1955), actor and director, patron of the Warsaw Drama Academy
• Franciszek Żwirko (1895–1932), aviator
• Fryderyk Chopin
  , composer.
• Helena Morsztynkiewiczowa (1894 –1983), architect and urban planner

Gallery

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  Avenue of Notables
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  Saint Karol Boromeusz Church
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  Old Powązki
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  Edward Rydz-Śmigły grave
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  Old Powązki
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  Old Powązki
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  Old Powązki
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  Old Powązki
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  Old Powązki

See also

• Rakowicki Cemetery
• Lychakiv Cemetery

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Powązki Cemetery.

1. ^ ^{a b} "Historia Cmentarza Powązkowskiego" (in Polish). Archived from the original on 4 November 2010. Retrieved 10 August 2010.
2. ^ ^{a b} "Najsłynniejszy cmentarz Warszawy". Retrieved 9 July 2017.
3. ^ "Warszawskie Zabytkowe Pomniki Nagrobne". cmentarze.um.warszawa.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 16 December 2023.