Rakowicki Cemetery
The Rakowicki Cemetery ( Polish : Cmentarz Rakowicki ), one of the largest in Krakow , was established in 1801-1802.
history
It was created on the suburban area of what was then the Rakowice suburb (however not within the village of Rakowice, but in the southern part of the Prądnik Czerwony municipality , which was incorporated into Kraków as Warszawskie in 1910 ) in connection with the ban on burials in church cemeteries within the city. The site was bought by the Austrian rulers, the costs of the facility were borne by the city of Krakow and the neighboring communities. The first funeral took place in January 1803. In 1862 a wooden chapel was built on the cemetery grounds. The cemetery was expanded several times (1863, 1865, 1908) and an army cemetery was set up on its site near 1920.
The necropolis is a burial place of the Krakow, simple as well as deserving citizens from culture and science, the heads of noble families, independence fighters, the participants in uprisings and wars like both world wars.
In the cemetery there are u. a. Quarters of participants in the November Uprising , January Uprising , Cracow Uprising , fallen soldiers of the First World War , members of the Polish Legion , participants in the attack near Rokitna , workers who died during the 1936 strike and participants in the Second World War , including soldiers from September 1939 , allies Pilots, partisans, victims of the Hitler crimes, Russian soldiers from the time of Krakow's liberation in 1945.
The cemetery is a sight of great historical and artistic value. Some of the graves are the work of well-known architects, u. a. Teofil Żebrawski, Feliks Księżarski, Sławomir Odrzywolski, Jakub Szczepkowski , and also sculptors such as Tadeusz Błotnicki, Wacław Szymanowski, Karol Huka and others.
In 1981 a “ Committee for the Rescue of the Rakowicki Cemetery ” was founded to collect money for the renovation of tombs of historical value, for example an occasional annual collection.
Graves of known deceased
It rests here among others:
- Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz (1852–1916), Polish painter
- Siegmund Anczyc (1783–1855), Polish theater actor and director
- Władysław Ludwik Anczyc (1823–1883), Polish writer, poet and playwright
- Teodor Axentowicz (1859–1938), Polish painter, draftsman and graphic artist
- Michał Bałucki (1837–1901), Polish writer
- Jerzy Samuel Bandtkie (1768–1835), Polish librarian, philologist, historian, lexicographer and editor
- Władysław Belina-Prażmowski (1888–1938), Polish military and politician
- Maciej Biesiadecki (1864–1935), Polish politician and General Commissioner of the Free City of Danzig
- Michał Bobrzyński (1849–1935), Polish historian, politician and professor at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow
- Józef Bogusz (1904–1993), Polish surgeon, ethicist and historian of medicine
- Jerzy Broszkiewicz (1922–1993), Polish author, writer and journalist
- Tadeusz Browicz (1847–1928), Polish pathologist
- Andrzej Bursa (1932–1957), Polish poet and journalist
- Albert Chmielowski (1845–1916), Polish painter and founder of the order
- Stanisław Chlebowski (1835–1884), Polish painter
- Ignacy Chrzanowski (1866–1940), Polish literary scholar
- Barbara Czarnowieska (1954–2007), Polish philologist, writer and blogger
- Emilian Czyrniański (1824–1888), Austro-Hungarian chemist
- Ignacy Daszyński (1866–1936), Polish politician and Prime Minister
- Franciszek Dąbrowski (1904–1962), officer in the Polish Navy
- İzzet Derviş (1878–1943), father of the Turkish Cypriot President Derviş Eroğlu
- Joseph Dietl (1804–1878), Polish-Austrian doctor, university professor and politician
- Stanisław Dragan (1941-2007), Polish boxer
- Bolesław Drobner (1883–1968), Polish politician
- Alois Raphael Estreicher (1786–1852), Polish botanist and entomologist as well as professor and rector of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow
- Karol Estreicher (1827–1908), Polish philologist, bibliographer, librarian, translator and director of the Jagiellonian Library in Cracow
- Karol Estreicher (1906–1984), Polish art historian, professor at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow and director of the University Museum in the Collegium Maius
- Stanisław Estreicher (1869–1939), Polish legal historian and bibliographer
- Józef Andrzej Gierowski (1922–2006), Polish historian and rector of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow
- Marek Grechuta (1945–2006), Polish singer, poet, composer and painter
- Ales Harun (1887–1920), Belarusian poet
- Anton Hawelka (1840–1894), Polish merchant and restaurateur
- Emmerich Hutten-Czapski (1828–1896), Polish numismatist, book and art collector
- Roman Ingarden (1893–1970), Polish philosopher
- Karol Irzykowski (1873–1944), Polish writer, literary critic and film theorist
- Feliks Jasieński (1861–1929), Polish art collector and art critic
- Tadeusz Kantor (1915–1990), Polish theater director, painter, set designer and art theorist
- Ludwik Jerzy Kern (1920–2010), Polish writer, journalist and literary translator
- Julian Klaczko (1825–1906), Polish writer, publicist and politician
- Juliusz Kleiner (1886–1957), Polish philosopher and literary historian
- Oskar Kolberg (1814–1890), Polish ethnographer and composer
- Kazimierz Kordylewski (1903–1981), Polish astronomer
- Apollo Korzeniowski (1820–1869), Polish writer and patriot
- Juliusz Kossak (1824–1899), Polish painter and draftsman
- Wojciech Kossak (1857–1942), Polish painter
- Anna Kowalska-Lewicka (1920–2009), Polish ethnographer
- Andrzej Kremer (1961–2010), Polish lawyer, diplomat and Deputy Foreign Minister
- Janusz Kurtyka (1960–2010), Polish historian and second president of the Institute for National Remembrance
- Stanisław Kutrzeba (1876–1946), Polish historian and politician
- Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski (1888–1974), Polish engineer, manager, economist, politician and rector of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow
- Barbara Kwiatkowska-Lass (1940–1995), Polish film actress
- Franciszek Latinik (1864–1949), Polish general
- Tadeusz Lehr-Spławiński (1891–1965), Polish linguist and rector of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow
- Juliusz Leo (1861–1918), Polish politician and professor at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow
- Bohdan Lepkyj (1872–1941), Ukrainian writer and literary scholar
- Leopold Löffler (1827–1898), Polish painter
- Stanisław Łojasiewicz (1926–2002), Polish mathematician
- Władysław Łuszczkiewicz (1828–1900), Polish painter, art teacher and art historian
- Artur Malawski (1904–1957), Polish composer, educator and conductor
- Lucjan Malinowski (1839–1898), Polish linguist and professor at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow
- Barbara Marianowska (1947–2012), Polish politician
- Jan Matejko (1838-1893), Polish painter
- Teodora Matejko (1846–1896), wife of the Polish painter Jan Matejko
- Józef Mehoffer (1869–1946), Polish painter and graphic artist
- Piotr Michałowski (1800–1855), Polish painter
- Franciszek Mirecki (1791 or 1794–1862), Polish composer
- Helena Modrzejewska (1840–1909), Polish actress
- Krystyna Moszumańska-Nazar (1924–2008), Polish composer and music teacher
- Daniel Mróz (1917–1993), Polish draftsman, cartoonist, illustrator and set designer
- Stella Müller-Madej (1930–2013), Jewish contemporary witness of the Shoah
- Władysław Natanson (1864–1937), Polish physicist
- Jerzy Nowak (1923–2013), Polish film and theater actor
- Julian Nowak (1865–1946), Polish bacteriologist, politician and Prime Minister
- Jerzy Nowosielski (1923–2011), Polish painter
- Czesław Oberdak (1921–1945), Polish pilot
- Dominik Oesterreicher (1750–1809), painter and professor at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow and ancestor of the Krakow family of scholars Estreicher
- Karol Olszewski (1846–1915), Polish chemist, mathematician and physicist
- Tadeusz Pankiewicz (1908-1993), Polish pharmacist
- Stefan Zachariasz Pawlicki (1839–1916), Polish priest (Catholic), professor, philosopher, historian and rector of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow
- Gustav von Piotrowski (1833–1884), Polish-Austrian physiologist
- Kasimir Pochwalski (1855–1940), Polish painter and university professor
- Włodzimierz Potasiński (1956-2010), Polish major general
- Adam Prażmowski (1853–1920), Polish microbiologist
- Stanisław Radziejowski (1863–1950), Polish painter
- Jan Raszka (1871–1945), Polish sculptor and painter
- Jerzy Rayski (1917–1993), Polish physicist and professor at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow
- Henryk Reyman (1897–1963), Polish football player and coach
- Henryk Rodakowski (1823-1894), Polish-Austrian painter
- Feliks Rogoziński (1879–1940), Polish physiologist and expert in pet nutrition
- Bronisław Rutkowski (1898–1964), Polish organist, music teacher and scholar
- Lucjan Rydel (1870–1918), Polish poet and playwright
- Andrzej Sariusz-Skąpski (1937–2010), Chairman of the Association of Katyn Victims' Relatives
- Jadwiga Sarnecka (1877 or 1883–1913), Polish composer and pianist
- Zbigniew Seifert (1946–1979), Polish jazz musician
- Michał Marian Siedlecki (1873–1940), Polish marine biologist
- Klemens Stefan Sielecki (1903–1980), Polish engineer and first technical director of the locomotive manufacturer Fablok
- Piotr Skrzynecki (1930–1997), Polish cabaret artist
- Czesław Słania (1921–2005), Polish engraver of postage stamps and banknotes
- Maciej Słomczyński (1922–1998), Polish writer and translator
- Stepan Smal-Stozkyj (1859–1938), Ukrainian Slavist, politician and university professor
- Marian Smoluchowski (1872–1917), Austrian-Polish physicist
- Piotr Stachiewicz (1858–1938), Polish painter and illustrator
- Jan Stanisławski (1860–1907), Polish painter
- Jan Kanty Steczkowski (1862–1929), Polish politician and Prime Minister
- Stanisław Stojałowski (1845–1911), Polish Roman Catholic clergyman and politician
- Władysław Szafer (1886–1970), Polish botanist and ecologist
- Józef Szujski (1835–1883), Polish politician, historian, poet and professor at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow
- Wacław Szymanowski (1859–1930), Polish sculptor and painter, he created his own grave monument
- Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012), Polish poet
- Adolf Szyszko-Bohusz (1883–1948), Polish architect, university professor and monument conservator
- Jarosław Śmietana (1951–2013), Polish jazz guitarist and band leader
- Eugenia Umińska (1910–1980), Polish violinist and music teacher
- Hieronymus Anton von Ziemiecki (1817–1906), German or Austrian officer
- Rudolf Weigl (1883–1957), Polish biologist
- Jan Weyssenhoff (1889–1972), Polish physicist and professor at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow
- Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski (1881–1942), Polish doctor, general, diplomat and politician
- August Witkowski (1854–1913), Polish experimental physicist and rector of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow
- Wiesław Woda (1946–2010), Polish politician, civil servant, agricultural engineer
- Andrzej Wołkowski (1913–1995), Polish ice hockey player and coach
- Jadwiga Wołoszyńska (1882–1951), Polish botanist and university professor
- Zygmunt Wróblewski (1845–1888), Polish chemist and physicist
- Wiktor Zin (1925–2007), Polish architect and draftsman
- Witold Zuchiewicz (1955–2012), Polish geologist
- Mikołaj Zyblikiewicz (1823–1887), Polish politician, lawyer and mayor (Prezydent miasta) of Kraków
- Władysław Żeleński (1837–1921), Polish composer
The Austrian poet Georg Trakl (1887–1914) was reburied from here to Mühlau near Innsbruck in 1925 .
Illustrations
Web links
- History of the Rakowicki Cemetery (Polish)
Coordinates: 50 ° 4 ′ 32 ″ N , 19 ° 57 ′ 14 ″ E