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Each city has a place where are rested people, who went on the last trip. Wroclaw is no exception, but are unique places that serve this purpose. Some are currently in use, anothers have to remind, and more others - themselves are forgotten, these are the most interesting.

Wroclaw cemeteries

Osobowicki Cemetery is the largest necropolis of Wroclav. It covers an area of more than 50 hectares.

Main Avenue leads to the Cemetery Chapel

Graves of soldiers from the First World War..

Memory wall - a monument to the Victims of Terror Communist 1945-1956.

The Monument to the Fallen Police

Graves of the followers of Allah are situated so as to the dead could lie that a face is directions to Mecca.

Mourning one of the oldest and most interesting gravestones at the Osobowicki Cemetery

comes from 1895

Tombs of Roma families are extremely interesting element of Nekropolis. During the holidays

All Saints' Day take place here family meetings,

connected with consumption.

The tomb of the royal gypsy family Łakatosz

The second-largest of the cemeteries in Wroclaw

GrabiszynskiCemetery

The cemetery in its present borders is one of the three parts

which were more complex cemetery in the first half of the twentieth

century.

Italian Soldiers Cemetery 1914-1918stone slabs are from the beginning of the cemetery

The pink sandstone monument on the grave gifted young actress Vilma Illing

For the outstanding violinist and conductor Rafał Maszkowski from Breslauer Orchester Verein

accompaniments an angel.Notes record for a monument is the "Rapsody" of Brahms

Cemetery of the parish St.FamiliesCemetery on the Smętna Street, on Sępolno district, was in 1928 as a necropolis evangelical parish

Monument to soldiers AK, with branches "Szary" and the "Młot" ", who were sentenced to death and executed in 1945 in Wroclaw

Monument to Eagles of Lviv.

Symbolic grave of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko, who was killed in a brutal manner by the communist security force. His tomb became a memorial to the victims of martial law.

Col. Boleslaw Orliński flyed in stages

over 10 thousand km from Warsaw to Tokyo.

For this feat Emperor of Japan

decorated him the Order of the Rising Sun.

Cemetery of St. LawrenceIt is also the parish cemetery, was founded in 1866.

The Church of St. Lawrence. In the foreground a new cemetery chapel.

Graves of lay sisters

The tomb of the bishops of Wroclaw

Legendary minister for youth academic Father Alexander Zienkiewicz,

for many he was simply my Uncle, rests on the cemetery.

The tomb of an eminent doctor and lecturer at UW

Otfrid Prize procedure and his wife - Martha

Another, from the few surviving pre-graves

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Cemetery Soldiers of Red Army

Cemetery limited triangle of streets - Karkonoska, Race and Tennis

Gate entrance to the cemetery and the tank, which welcomes entering into the city from the Bielany

Entry west, was to be the central entrance, decorated with two gun-howitz.

Officer's quarters at the cemetery.

Glorieta

Jewish CemeteryAt Lotnicza Street

The so-called New Jewish Cemetery - Fifth, in terms of size, Jewish necropolis in Poland (immediately after Lodz, Warsaw, Krakow and Bialystok). It occupies an area

of approximately 11 hectares, which is covered with unusual tombstones, set among the felled trees and ivy. His rise was due to lack of space in the Old Cemetery at Ślężna Street.

The field of honor Jewish soldiers fallen in the World War I.

Fragment of arcades with the only remaining wall of the chapel.

Jewish CemeteryŚlężna Street, so called - Old Cemetery

The first funeral - merchant Lobel Stern - was held on 17 November 1856 years.Burial Place blessed the rabbi Abraham Geiger.

In the years 1940-1942 funerals at the cemetery started to slowly stop, and in 1943 closed the necropolis.

During the fightings the city in 1945 year cemetery was the site of warfare, as shown by the traces of bullets on some macewas After the war, the place began to deteriorate rapidly. This

process was stoped entering the cemetery in the register of monuments - 24 May 1975, shortly afterwards started preservation work of the fence, tombstones, alleys . In 1988 this place was made available to the public as the Museum of Cemetery Architecture. At present this is the

Museum of Contemporary Art cemetery, a branch of the Municipal Museum of Wroclaw.

The tomb of Friedmanns

tomb of the family Kaufmann

Zabytkowe macewy

The tomb of Ferdinand Julius Cohn - the distinguished botanist

The tomb of Ferdinand Lassalle - the creator of the first batch of workers in Germany

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