Crypt of Deserved Poles on Skałka Hill

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Crypt of Deserved Poles on Skałka Hill

The crypt of deserving Poles on the Skałka Hill ( Polish Crypt Zasłużonych na Skałcie , Panteon Zasłużonych , Groby Zasłużonych Polaków , Sepulcrum Patriae , also known as the cemetery of important Poles ) is a crypt located in the basement of the Kraków St. Michael's and St. Skałka Hill is located. It was built in 1880 as a result of the building project by Józef Łepkowski in 1876. The entrance arch bears the Latin inscription: Credo, quod Redemptor meus vivit (“I believe that my Redeemer lives”).

Burials

Year of burial person Remarks Graves
1880 Jan Długosz
(1415-1480)
Chronicle and historian, author of one of the most outstanding works of European historiography of the Middle Ages. Buried on the Skałka hill on the 400th anniversary of his death.
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1881 Wincenty Pol
(1807-1872)
Poet, writer, geographer, participant in the November Uprising .
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Lucjan Siemieński
(1807–1877)
Poet, writer, literary critic and translator, participant in the November Uprising . The remains come from the Rakowicki cemetery .
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1887 Józef Ignacy Kraszewski
(1812-1887)
Poet, writer, publicist, editor, historian, social and political activist. The sarcophagus contained lead in his chest and newspaper articles from the day of his burial.
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1893 Teofil Lenartowicz
(1822-1893)
Ethnographer, sculptor, poet. His funeral was preceded by a dispute over Kraków and Lviv as burial sites. Adam Asnyk spoke over the sarcophagus .
Lenartowicz-Skalka.jpg
1897 Adam Asnyk
(1838-1897)
Poet and writer, member of the National Council during the January Uprising .
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1902 Henryk Siemiradzki
(1843–1902)
Painter, representative of academism. His funeral was particularly stately in gratitude for his outstanding painting Pochodnie Nerona , which led to the establishment of the painting collection in the State Museum .
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1907 Stanisław Wyspiański
(1869–1907)
Dramaturge, poet, painter, graphic artist, architect.
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1929 Jacek Malczewski
(1854–1929)
Painter, one of the main representatives of symbolism at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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1937 Karol Szymanowski
(1882–1937)
Composer, pianist, educator and music critic. His heart was transferred to Warsaw, where it burned in the Warsaw Uprising .
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1954 Ludwik Solski
(1855-1954)
Actor, director, theater director.
Solski-Skalka.jpg
1955 Tadeusz Banachiewicz
(1882–1954)
Mathematician, astronomer and geodesist. Buried on Skałka Hill a year after his death thanks to the support of Kazimierz Kordylewski .
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2004 Czesław Miłosz
(1911-2004)
Lawyer, diplomat, poet, prose writer, esotericist, literary historian and translator; Nobel Prize for Literature (1980). During the funeral, a letter from Pope John Paul II was read, recalling his last correspondence with the poet.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 2 ′ 54 ″  N , 19 ° 56 ′ 16 ″  E