New evangelical cemetery in Bielsko-Biała

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Cemetery church at the new Protestant cemetery in Bielsko-Biała
Design of the cemetery

The new Evangelical cemetery in Bielsko-Biała is a cemetery in the north of the city center of Bielsko-Biała in Poland .

It was built in 1911 based on a design by the Viennese architect Hans Mayr (1877–1918) and replaced the old Protestant cemetery in the Bielitzer Zion district from 1833 . The Protestant community bought the property as early as 1895.

The cemetery consists of three zones:

  • the southeast zone with parallel paths,
  • the northeast zone around the semicircular central square with radial paths,
  • the northwest zone as a reserve of terrain with a wide path.

In the south-west zone there is a building complex modeled on the Italian Campo santo - a rectangular courtyard with service buildings, an arcade wall and a cemetery church, in the late Baroque style with Art Nouveau influences. Many important personalities from the first half of the 20th century rest in the new evangelical cemetery, among others

  • Karl Steffan the Elder, Mayor,
  • Eduard Schnack, founder of the museum in the Sułkowski Palace
  • Felicja Kaszowska-Krotowska, opera singer,
    • Entrepreneurs, u. A .:
  • Moritz Bartelmuss,
  • Karl Büttner the Elder
  • Karl Geppert,
  • Moritz Graubner,
  • Gustav Josephy the Younger
  • Gustav Molenda,
  • Oswald Molenda,
  • Walter Piesch
  • Friedrich Plutzar,
  • Georg Schwabe,
  • Ernest Starke,
  • Karl Steffan the Younger,
  • Ernest and Karl Stosius,
  • Rudolf Twerdy,
  • Leopold Vogt
  • Karl Zipser

In the cemetery there is also a memorial to the soldiers who died in the First World War .

literature

  • Michał Cała: Bielsko-Biała and its surroundings: Bielsko-Biała: Wydawnictwo Lokum, 2007, ISBN 83-924285-0-1 .
  • Piotr Kenig: Zarys dziejów luteranizmu w Bielsku-Białej: Muzeum Okręgowe w Bielsku-Białej, 2000, ISBN 83-8810500-0 .

Web links

Commons : New evangelical cemetery in Bielsko-Biała  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 49 ′ 42 ″  N , 19 ° 2 ′ 3 ″  E