Radom Evangelical Cemetery

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Gate to the cemetery
Brandt's grave
Graves in the entrance area

The Evangelical Cemetery Radom ( Polish Cmentarz ewangelicki or Cmentarz ewangelicko-augsburski w Radomiu ) is a cemetery of the Lutheran (Evangelical-Augsburg) Church in Radom in the Masovian Voivodeship in Poland . It was laid out in 1833 and has been a protected cultural monument since 1982 .

As a Protestant cemetery, with its design from the first half of the 19th century, it is unique in the voivodeship.

location

The facility is located in the west of the city at the intersection of the streets ulica Kielecka (formerly Landesstraße DK7 and DK12 ) and Wolanowska in Radom, when it was founded, the “Neue Krakauer ” and “Alte Petrikauer Straße”. The Mleczna is about 600 meters away, the Roman Catholic cemetery is about one kilometer southeast, the early medieval old town (Stare Miasto) 1.2 kilometers east.

history

Radom was an important administrative seat and seat of military institutions in the Vistula region of the Russian Empire . In 1826 the evangelical congregation was founded. The city also developed into an economic and industrial center in the second half of the 19th century. There were many Protestants among the artisans and industrial workers who immigrated from Germany and Austria-Hungary . Church members from Estonia , Sweden , Switzerland , Scotland and Russia are also recorded. In its heyday the church had 12,000 believers.

The cemetery was laid out in 1833/1834, seven years after the establishment of the Lutheran congregation in Radom. According to the legal rules, it had to be outside the urban development. Originally surrounded by a moat, the complex was expanded, walled and planted with trees from 1858 to 1860. The Russian governor Count Leonti Karlowitsch Opperman and the engineer of the Maciej Bajer governorate were involved in the construction work. The person responsible for the community was the pharmacist Adolf Frick, who also donated bushes and trees. At the turn of the 20th century, the cemetery was enlarged for the last time in 1893 and received a grave digger and guard house. A bell was donated for the archway at the entrance in 1902 .

At the beginning of the First World War , residents of German origin were deported and many emigrated after the war. The cemetery was partially devastated and looted. For their part, the Prussians took the Protestant pastor Henryk Michał Daughterman hostage, along with other dignitaries . During the war, 112 Protestant soldiers from the German and Austro-Hungarian armies were buried in the cemetery.

After World War II , Protestants were mistakenly identified with Germans. Many parishioners went west for fear of persecution. The evangelical congregation only had 70 members in 2018. The parish council of the church decided in 2002 to make the cemetery available for the burial of deceased other denominations in order to raise funds for renovation work.

Since 2003, students of the business school have been nursing regularly on a voluntary basis. The following year the grave digger's house was demolished because it was in disrepair. Renovations were carried out by 2008 and the streets were paved with the help of the city. An entrepreneur financed the repair and cleaning of one of the tombstones.

The cemetery was entered on the national list of monuments on May 3, 1982, as the first of the four old Radom necropolises .

description

Despite the later expansion, the cemetery is divided into small grave fields, which dates from 1858/1859. Gravestones in German, Polish, Swedish and Russian have been preserved in the cemetery. Most of the tombstones date from 1850 to the 1920s. Some of them came from well-known stone masonry workshops in Warsaw (Lubowiecki, Stanisławski, Bartnicki, Turek) or from Jan Nowak from Lublin . They are a testament to the quality of the stone workshop of that time. Old graves from the mid-nineteenth century often have cast iron tombstones . However, sandstone from the south of Mazovia or sandstone in combination with granite and cast iron is predominant .

Several inventories were carried out in the cemetery until 2008 . There are 269 graves in the cemetery, 81 of which are damaged. By 2018, 13 individual graves were entered in the monument register.

The graves of entrepreneurial and industrial families are of particular importance. The names include Buff, Długołęcki, Gain, Karsch, Kepler, Kindt, Kuntz, Lieder, Metzger, Rössler, Skibiński and Wickenhagen. The Radom family of Marx produced pharmacists, doctors and teachers. The large sculpture of the risen Christ from the grave of the tannery owner Teodor Karsch has graced the city's Evangelical Augsburg Church since 1999. The transfer was made primarily for security reasons.

  • Grave of the Karsch family

  • Grave of the Wickenhagen family

  • typical metal crosses

  • Collective grave of German soldiers, 1914

Personalities (selection)
  • Karol Hoppen (1789–1849), pharmacist and artist
  • Alfons Pinno (1891–1976), architect and city historian
  • Władysław Roguski (1890–1940), painter and graphic artist
  • Adolf Daughterman (1892–1955), doctor and hospital director
  • Otto Wüstehube, pastor and 1877 founder of the organ of the Protestant church.

Other necropolises in Radom

  • Roman Catholic cemetery (cmentarz rzymskokatolicki) , since 1812
  • Jewish cemetery (cmentarz żydowski) , since 1837 ( epidemic cemetery from 1831)
  • Orthodox cemetery (cmentarz prawosławny) , since 1839
  • Municipal cemetery (cmentarz komunalny) , since 1974.

literature

  • The evangelical cemetery. In: Ewa Kutyła: Walk through Radom . 3rd edition, Radom 2015. pp. 69–71.
  • Radom Protestants. In: Ewa Kutyła: Walk through Radom . 3rd edition, Radom 2015. pp. 68–71.

Web links

Commons : Radom Evangelical Cemetery  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The Protestant cemetery. In: Ewa Kutyła: Walk through Radom . 3rd edition, Radom 2015. p. 71.
  2. ↑ radom.luteranie.pl: Rys historyczny Cmentarza w Radomiu. (Polish, accessed May 24, 2020)
  3. ↑ radom.wyborcza.pl: Cmentarz Ewangelicki przy ul. Kieleckiej w Radomiu. (Polish, accessed May 24, 2020)
  4. ↑ a b radom.wyborcza.pl: Cmentarz Ewangelicki przy ul. Kieleckiej w Radomiu. (Polish, May 24, 2018; accessed May 24, 2020)
  5. ↑ Renata Metzger, radom.wyborcza.pl: Pomysł na ratowanie cmentarza ewangelicko-augsburskiego. (Polish, June 17, 2002; accessed May 24, 2020)
  6. ↑ radom.wyborcza.pl: Cmentarz Ewangelicki przy ul. Kieleckiej w Radomiu. (Polish, May 24, 2018; accessed May 24, 2020)
  7. ↑ Entry No. 173 / A / 82 of May 3, 1982 in the list of monuments of the Masovian Voivodeship.
  8. ↑ Entry No. 173 / A / 82 of May 3, 1982 in the list of monuments of the Masovian Voivodeship.
  9. ↑ radom.wyborcza.pl Cmentarz Ewangelicki przy ul. Kieleckiej w Radomiu. (Polish, May 24, 2018; accessed May 24, 2020)
  10. ^ Evangelical Augsburg Church. In: Ewa Kutyła: Walk through Radom . 3rd edition, Radom 2015. p. 69.
  11. ↑ Entry No. 248 / A / 84 of March 20, 1984 in the list of monuments of the Masovian Voivodeship.
  12. ↑ Entry No. 400 / A / 89 of April 3, 1989 in the list of monuments of the Masovian Voivodeship.
  13. ↑ Entry No. 362 / A / 87 of November 27, 1987 in the list of monuments of the Masovian Voivodeship.

Coordinates: 51 ° 24 ′ 10 ″  N , 21 ° 6 ′ 56 ″  E