Old Podgur Cemetery

It is assumed that the cemetery was founded around 1784, when the Austrian emperor Joseph II issued a decree according to which all city necropolises should have been moved beyond the city limits. For the first time the cemetery was recorded on the map of 1817. In 1838, a building for funeral rites was built at the cemetery. The first mention of the cemetery chapel dates back to 1886. There is also a photograph of one of the gravestones with an inscription on the grave of Agnieszka Drelinkevichova (circa 1794). The necropolis was expanded twice in 1838 and 1895. In April 1900, after the founding of a new cemetery in Podgruzh, the necropolis was closed to new burials. During World War II in 1942, the German authorities destroyed about one-quarter of the cemetery for the construction of a railway line. The greatest damage to the necropolis was brought in the 1970s by the construction of Televisnaya Street (today, Silesian Insurgents Street), during which most of the historical tombstones were transferred to the new Podgursky cemetery or to the upper part of the necropolis that has survived to our time.

Currently, the area of ​​the necropolis is 38 acres (in 1900, the area was 1.5 hectares).

On May 24, 1996, the necropolis was entered in the register of monuments of the Małopolska province (No. A-1028 ^[1] ).

• Bednarsky, Wojciech (1841–1914) - Polish teacher, public figure.
• Dembowski, Edward (1822–1846) - Polish philosopher, writer, one of the organizers of the Krakow uprising of 1846.
• Kotsis, Alexander (1836–1877) - Polish realist painter.
• Eliash-Radzikowski, Wojciech (1814–904) - Polish artist.

• Karolina Grodziska: Cmentarze Podgórza. Kraków: Secesja, 1992.

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