Grabiszyński Cemetery - next to the Osobowicki Cemetery, Holy Family Cemetery, St. Wawrzyniec Cemetery one of the largest necropolis in Wrocław. The cemetery in its current borders is one of three parts constituting in the first half of the twentieth century a larger cemetery complex. Initially, it was a cemetery on which the deceased were buried from the southern parishes of Wrocław, evangelical: Saint. Elizabeth and Saint. Trinity, Catholic: Saint. Charles Borromeo and Saint. Elżbieta Węgierska and monks from the monastery of the Bonifratri. He later became a municipal cemetery - Kommunal Friedhof in Graebschen. [source: Wikipedia, 183474]
| type of the cemetery | municipal |
| state of the cemetery | active |
| [source: Wikipedia, 183474] |
History
The Grabiszyński I cemetery was located between Hallera, Romera and Grabiszyńska streets, in the place where Grabiszyński Park is located today. It was founded in 1868, in the central part of the cemetery there was a chapel built according to the design of architect Zimmermann in the style imitating the Italian Renaissance. The chapel and cemetery were destroyed during the siege of Wroclaw. After the war, the cemetery was not used and was subject to constant devastation, the decision to liquidate the cemetery was made in the 1960s. After the liquidation of the cemetery, a park was established in its place, the former cemetery alley layout was changed, only in a few places fragments of graves and other cemetery facilities can be found. The Grabiszyński II cemetery was founded in 1881, it is the only part of the former cemetery complex used today. In 1882, according to the design of architect Kessler, a neo-Romanesque chapel dedicated to the memory of Karolina Gierth was built, this chapel is used today for the celebration of funeral ceremonies. The vast majority of German tombstones were liquidated in the 1950s. In addition to burial fields, with graves, there are also urn boxes and a columbarium, two quarters reserved for the deceased Orthodox. The Grabiszyński III cemetery was built in 1916 on the eastern side of Grabiszyńska Street, on the southern edge of the oldest part of the cemetery complex. The central element of the cemetery was the crematorium built in 1926 according to the design of the Konwiarz. In 1927, in one of the free quarters on the southern edge of the cemetery, the Italian Soldiers' Cemetery in Wroclaw, who died in German captivity at the end of World War I, which today, together with a small quarters of children's graves located at the tram terminus, is the only preserved element of the former necropolis. In the years 1946 - 1949, next to the Italian necropolis, a French war cemetery was organized, which was liquidated in 1952. The grounds of the Grabiszyński III Cemetery are now the main part of the Grabiszyński Park. [source: Wikipedia, 183474]
