Renovation of the quarter of the November insurgents – of the so-called Iron Company – at the Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv

Ukraine
2018
conservation
cemetery, conservation works, Lviv, lyczakowski cemetery, Ukraine

o projekcie

The quarter of the November insurgents was established in 1880, at a time that marked the 50thanniversary of the November Uprising. The people behind this initiative were members of the environment affiliated with the Council of the City of Lviv, led by the city’s president, Michał Gnoiński. The quarter is a place of burial of 47 insurgents.

Unfortunately, after 1945, the quarter had been devastated many times. The Foundation’s efforts are aimed at bring the site back to its original shape and restore its existing gravestones and crosses.

2018

The planned works started in 2017. The first stage involved conserving the Glory Monument (referred to also as the Veteran Glory monument or, popularly, as the “sarcophagus”) and the grave of Jan Pfeiffer.

The second stage of conservation works commenced in 2018. The grave markers of the following were restored: Adam Kulwieć, the Jasiński family, Jan Granatowski, Jan Kanty Czerszyk, Jan Czarnecki, Rafał Leliwa Mierzyński, and Zygmunt Kotkowski. The performed works included also renovating the cast-iron crosses found in the quarter.

The above works were financed from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage’s funds granted to the Cultural Heritage Foundation in 2017 and 2018 as part of the programme entitled “National Remembrance Sites Abroad”.

+ _

similar projects