Batovitsky cemetery

The Batowice Cemetery ( Polish: Cmentarz Batowicki ) is a cemetery located in Krakow in the northern part of the Prondnik-Chervona district on 48 Rebel Street, 48. Currently, it actually consists of two separate city and parish parts.

Cemetery
Batovitsky cemetery
Cmentarz batowicki
A country	Poland
City	Krakow
First mention	1923 year

The building for the funeral rites "Gateway to the city of the dead", architect Romuald Latker

The necropolis was founded in 1923 and consecrated in 1931. Originally belonged to the local Catholic parish. Until 1966, the area of ​​the parish cemetery was 37.61 hectares. In 1966, an urban site was added to the parish cemetery, which was called by the name of the nearby village of Batowice . The urban area was 8.9 hectares. In 1996, the territory was reconstructed, during which a funerary rear was built at the cemetery for funeral rites called “The Gateway to the City of the Dead” (Brama do Miasta Zmarłych). The building was designed by the Cracow architect Romuald Lagler . In 2006, this building was included in the list of twenty most beautiful architectural structures of the competition “Poland. Icons of architecture ”(Polska. Ikony architektury).

In 1998, the necropolis was consecrated by Cardinal Frantisek Maharsky . At the end of the 20th century, the city authorities of Krakow planned to build the first crematorium in the city, but due to environmental protests, the decision to build was postponed.

The cemetery contains mass graves of servicemen of the Home Army , the Polish Army, Peasant battalions , participants in the Greater Poland and Silesian uprisings and the largest unidentified person quarter among the Krakow necropolises.

Currently, the area of ​​the necropolis is 46.51 hectares.