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 |
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| 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 . |
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| 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. |
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| 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