Execution Hill in Lviv

Ukraine
2015
conservation
conservation works, foreign projects, Lviv, obelisk, Pole, polish, polish people, Ukraine

o projekcie

On a hill near Kleparivska Street in Lviv, formerly known as the Execution Hill, there is a marble obelisk crowned with an eagle about to take flight. The obelisk features a bas-relief and a commemorative plaque reading: “Teofilowi Wiśniowskiemu, straconemu dnia 31 lipca 1847 r. za wolność ojczyzny. Mieszczaństwo lwowskie, 1895” [“In honour of Teofil Wiśniowski, executed on 31 July 1847 for the freedom of his country. Burghers of Lviv, 1895”].

The memorial was erected in 1985 on the initiative of Michał Michalski, the vice-president of Lviv of the time. The obelisk was set on small mound reinforced with stones.  The front of the mound features a plaque commemorating the martyr’s death of not only Teofil Wiśniowski but also Józef Kapuściński – hence the obelisk tends sometimes to be called the monument to Wiśniewski and Kapuściński. The inhabitants of Lviv visiting the site had also an opportunity to take a stroll through a park arranged at that time on the hillsides of the Execution Hill. The place came to be called the Wiśniowski Park.

2015

The monument devastated under the Soviet reign was subject to extensive conservation carried out by the Cultural Heritage Foundation in the second half of 2015. The undertaken activities included also reconstructing the commemorative plaques and the eagle found once atop the obelisk.

The project was financed by the Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Sites, and carried out by a Polish-Ukrainian conservation team composed of: Anna Sztymelska-Karczewska – manager, Orest Dzyndra, and Piotr Maślanka.

 

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