Rakowicki Cemetery
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Established | 1803 |
Location | Rakowiecka 26, Kraków |
Country | Poland |
Coordinates | 50°04′30″N 19°57′07″E / 50.075°N 19.952°E |
Type | Public |
Style | Architectural |
Owned by | ZCK Krakow |
Size | 42 hectares (100 acres) |
Website | Unofficial Site |
Find a Grave | Rakowicki Cemetery |
Rakowicki Cemetery (English:
History
The Rakowicki Cemetery was set up in 1800–1802 at an estate in
In 1807, the first
Between 1933 and 1934 the cemetery was widened at its north end, across an old military base, with a city street eliminated. In 1976, it was finally entered into the list of local heritage sites, and in 1979 it was the last place visited by Pope John Paul II during his June 2–10 first papal visit to his native homeland.
Cultural significance
The
Layout
Within the cemetery, there are special sections allocated to graves of the participants of Polish national uprisings such as the
National significance
The cemetery is a national monument of great historical and artistic value. Its selected gravestones and mausoleums are the work of well-known architects, among them, Teofil Żebrawski, Feliks Księżarski, Sławomir Odrzywolski, Jakub Szczepkowski, as well as sculptors such as Konstanty Laszczka, Tadeusz Błotnicki, Wacław Szymanowski, Karol Hukana and others. In 1981 a Public Committee for the Preservation of Kraków was founded, with a special sub-committee for the saving of the cemeteries of Kraków and other regional heritage sites. OKRK is organizing an annual collection for the restoration of historic tombs and gravestones. Works are being conducted simultaneously at the Rakowicki Cemetery and the New Foothill Cemetery (with the cooperation of the Association Podgórze.pl). OKRK is organizing an annual donation drive, raising funds for the renovation of historic tombs and the public monuments. Public funds are used for the restoration of deteriorating tombs without owners.[9]
Notable interments
Those buried at the Rakowicki Cemetery include:
- Teodor Axentowicz (1859–1938), painter
- Gabriela Balicka-Iwanowska (1871–1962), botanist, legislator
- Michał Bałucki (1837–1901), playwright and poet
- Andrzej Bursa (1932–1957), poet and writer
- Adam Chmielowski(1845–1916), nobleman and painter
- Hanna Helena Chrzanowska (1902–1973), Roman Catholic nurse
- Maximilian Cercha (1818–1907), painter
- Emil Czyrniański (1824–1888), chemist
- Ignacy Daszyński (1866–1936), socialist politician and journalist
- Józef Dietl (1804–1878), physician
- Stanisław Estreicher (1869–1939), historian
- Józef Andrzej Gierowski (1922–2006), historian
- Marek Grechuta (1945–2006), singer, songwriter, composer, and lyricist
- Julian Gutowski (1823–1890), politician
- Henryk Hiż (1917–2006), analytical philosopher
- Antonina Hoffmann (1842–1897), theatre actress
- Emeryk Hutten-Czapski (1828–1896), nobleman, scholar, and numismatist
- Roman Ingarden (1893–1970), philosopher
- Tadeusz Kantor (1915–1990), theatre director
- Oskar Kolberg (1814–1890), ethnographer and folklorist
- Apollo Korzeniowski (1820–1869), poet, playwright, translator, and father of novelist Joseph Conrad
- Juliusz Kossak (1824–1899), painter
- Wojciech Kossak (1856–1942), painter
- Stanisław Kutrzeba (1876–1946), historian and politician
- Barbara Kwiatkowska-Lass (1940–1995), actress
- Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski (1888–1974), politician and economist
- Tadeusz Lehr-Spławiński (1891–1965), linguist
- Juliusz Leo (1861–1918), politician and academic
- Anatol Lewicki (1841–1899), historian
- Zygmunt Marek (1872–1931), socialist politician
- Jan Matejko (1838–1893), painter
- Józef Mehoffer (1869–1946), painter and decorative artist
- Piotr Michałowski (1800–1855), painter
- Helena Modrzejewska(1840–1909), actress
- Tadeusz Pankiewicz (1908–1993), pharmacist
- Stefan Pawlicki (1839–1916), philosopher
- Henryk Reyman (1897–1963), footballer
- Lucjan Rydel (1870–1918), playwright and poet
- John Segrue (1884-1942), English journalist
- Klemens Stefan Sielecki (1903–1980), engineer
- Maciej Słomczyński (1922–1998), translator and writer
- Ignaz Sowinski (1858–1917), architect
- Władysław Szafer (1886–1970), botanist
- Józef Szujski (1835–1883), politician, historian, and poet
- Wislawa Szymborska(1923–2012), poet, essayist, translator, and Nobel Prize winner
- Adolf Szyszko-Bohusz (1883–1948), architect
- Rafał Taubenschlag (1881–1958), historian of law
- Dorota Terakowska (1938–2004), Polish writer and journalist
- Georg Trakl (1887–1914), Austrian poet
- Adam Vetulani (1901–1976), historian
- Jerzy Vetulani (1936–2017), neuroscientist
- Tadeusz Vetulani (1897–1952), agriculturalist
- Rudolf Weigl (1883–1957), biologist
- Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski (1881–1942), general, politician, freemason, diplomat, and poet
- Wiktor Zin (1925–2007), architect and graphic artist
- Mikołaj Zyblikiewicz (1823–1887), politician and lawyer
Points of interest
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Funerary statue
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Funerary statue
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Lasocki family tomb
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Dietl family tomb
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Chapel of Resurrection
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Tomb of Janina Gałowa, statue byGosławski
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Monument to Polish victims of Communism
See also
- The Lesser Polish Way
- Powązki Cemetery
- Powązki Military Cemetery
- Lychakiv Cemetery
- Rakowice, Krakow
Notes and references
- ^ (in Polish) Gazeta Krakow.pl, October 29, 2008, ""Zwiedzamy Cmentarz Rakowicki" (Touring the Rakowicki Cemetery at All Saints Day)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-11-20. (328 KB)
- ^ A multilingual brochure available for the visitors, called "Zwiedzamy Cmentarz Rakowicki" (A visit to the Rakowicki Cemetery) with a map describing a two-hour walk, is published by Zarząd Cmentarzy Komunalnych w Krakowie.
- ^ (in Polish) Karolina Grodziska, "Plan Cmentarza Rakowickiego," Archived 2009-11-02 at the Wayback Machine Gazeta.pl Krakow, 2002-10-30.
- ^ Rakowicki Cemetery at cracow-life.com
- ^ Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Krakow Rakowicki Cemetery
- ^ Szymon Madej, Kraków Military Cemetery
- ^ "Poland and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. "Who we are and what we do."" (PDF). (281 KB)
- ^ Veterans Affairs Canada, Press-release: Canadian Airmen Laid to Rest During Rededication Ceremony Sep 28, 2007.
- ^ (in Polish) Obywatelski Komitet Ratowania Krakowa Archived 2013-01-13 at archive.today
- Internetowy lokalizator grobów Zarządu Cmentarzy Komunalnych w Krakowie
- Galeria zdjęć Cmentarza Rakowickiego
External links
- Online grave locator in Krakow (Polish: Internetowy lokalizator grobów w Krakowie)
- 25439265 Location of the Rakowicki Cemetery on OpenStreetMap
- Cemetery details. Commonwealth War Graves Commission.