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Nisko Municipal Cemetery
Nisko Municipal Cemetery () is a necropolis located in Nisko at Bartosz Głowacki Street, it is the only active cemetery in the town. The cemetery is managed by the Municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ... and Town of Nisko. Notable burials Among the distinguished and notable individuals buried at the cemetery, the cemetery administration lists: Michał Bajak (lawyer), Fr. Józef Balawejder, Józef Baran, Stanisław Bednarz, Fr. Wincenty Boczara, Stanisław Chruściel, Zofia Czabaj, Franciszek Janczura (high school teacher), Władysław Karpia, Jan Łabuda, Władysław Ostrowski, Józef Płachciński, Stanisław Puchalski, Maria Ratajczak (teacher), Paweł Suchojad, Franciszek Sycz ( September Campaign soldier), Władysław Węgliński, Fr. Marian Wolicki, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nisko
Nisko is a town in Nisko County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland on the San River, with a population of 15,048 inhabitants as of 31 December 2021. Together with neighbouring city of Stalowa Wola, Nisko creates a small urban agglomeration, agglomeration. History Nisko was first mentioned in a document dated 15 April 1439, in which King Władysław III of Varna handed the villages of Nysky, Zaoszicze and Pyelaskowicze to a local nobleman. Furthermore, Nisko was also mentioned by Jan Długosz, in his work ''Liber beneficiorum dioecesis Cracoviensis''. The establishment of the village was probably the result of catastrophic Second Mongol invasion of Poland, Mongol Invasion of Poland, which decimated the population of Lesser Poland. Residents of burned villages and towns resettled in the areas north of the enormous Sandomierz Forest. Probably in the second half of the 13th century, a village was established on a hill near the San river. Nisko was a royal village administratively lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wojciech Bartosz Głowacki
Wojciech Bartos(z) Głowacki (1758–1794), known also as Bartosz Głowacki, was a Polish people, Polish peasant and the most famous member of the ''kosynierzy'' (peasant volunteer infantry) during the Kościuszko Uprising in 1794. Born as Wojciech Bartosz, he became a Polish Folk hero, national hero during the battle of Racławice on 4 April 1794, when he captured a Russian cannon by putting out the Fuse (explosives), fuse with his hat. For this, he was promoted to the military rank, rank of ''chorąży'' and received the surname 'Głowacki'. He was mortally wounded during the battle of Szczekociny on 6 June that year. Since then he has become one of the symbols of the Uprising and Polish valor. Biography Bartosz was born around 1765 as a serfdom in Poland, serf of Antoni Szujski. He was probably born in the village of Rzędowice, Opole Voivodeship, Rzędowice, although some sources give Zakrzów, Opole Lubelskie County, Zakrzów as his place of birth. As the Christian Church ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cemetery
A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park or memorial garden, is a place where the remains of many death, dead people are burial, buried or otherwise entombed. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek language, Greek ) implies that the land is specifically designated as a burial ground and originally applied to the Ancient Rome, Roman catacombs. The term ''graveyard'' is often used interchangeably with cemetery, but a graveyard primarily refers to a burial ground within a churchyard. The intact or cremated remains of people may be interred in a grave, commonly referred to as burial, or in a tomb, an "above-ground grave" (resembling a sarcophagus), a mausoleum, a columbarium, a niche, or another edifice. In Western world, Western cultures, funeral ceremonies are often observed in cemeteries. These ceremonies or rites of passage differ according to culture, cultural practices and religion, religious beliefs. Modern cemeteries often inclu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nisko County
__NOTOC__ Nisko County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Subcarpathian Voivodeship, south-eastern Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and largest town is Nisko, which lies north of the regional capital Rzeszów. The county also contains the towns of Rudnik nad Sanem, lying south-east of Nisko, and Ulanów, east of Nisko. The county covers an area of . As of 2019 its total population is 66,699, out of which the population of Nisko is 15,324, that of Rudnik nad Sanem is 6,710, that of Ulanów is 1,422, and the rural population is 43,243. Neighbouring counties Nisko County is bordered by Janów Lubelski County to the north-east, Biłgoraj County to the east, Leżajsk County to the south-east, Rzeszów County to the south, Kolbuszowa County to the south-west and Stalowa Wola County to the north-west. Administrative division The county is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
September Campaign
The invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, Polish Campaign, and Polish Defensive War of 1939 (1 September – 6 October 1939), was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union, which marked the beginning of World War II. The German invasion began on 1 September 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact between Germany and the Soviet Union, and one day after the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union had approved the pact. The Soviets invaded Poland on 17 September. The campaign ended on 6 October with Germany and the Soviet Union dividing and annexing the whole of Poland under the terms of the German–Soviet Frontier Treaty. The aim of the invasion was to disestablish Poland as a sovereign country, with its citizens destined for extermination. German and Slovak forces invaded Poland from the north, south, and west the morning after the Gleiwitz incident. As the Wehrmacht adv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stalowa Wola Municipal Cemetery
The Stalowa Wola Municipal Cemetery () is a necropolis located in Stalowa Wola, Poland, situated at 59A Ofiar Katynia Street. History The cemetery was established in 1944 by decision of the Occupation of Poland (1939–1945), occupying authorities, following the initiative of Fr. Józef Skoczyński, who sought to create a Catholic cemetery. A chronicle entry on the matter states: “In 1944, Fr. Józef Skoczyński appealed to the Germany, German settlement administration, Siedlunsverwaltung, for the allocation of land to establish a cemetery in Stalowa Wola. The German authorities designated a plot for the cemetery outside the settlement in a sparse forest near the so-called Way of the Cross, precisely opposite the site where preparations had begun before the war for the construction of a large hospital serving the Central Industrial District. In Fr. Skoczyński’s intention, the cemetery should have been ecclesiastical. The authorities decided that, since there was no parish wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nisko Jewish Cemetery
Nisko is a town in Nisko County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland on the San River, with a population of 15,048 inhabitants as of 31 December 2021. Together with neighbouring city of Stalowa Wola, Nisko creates a small agglomeration. History Nisko was first mentioned in a document dated 15 April 1439, in which King Władysław III of Varna handed the villages of Nysky, Zaoszicze and Pyelaskowicze to a local nobleman. Furthermore, Nisko was also mentioned by Jan Długosz, in his work ''Liber beneficiorum dioecesis Cracoviensis''. The establishment of the village was probably the result of catastrophic Mongol Invasion of Poland, which decimated the population of Lesser Poland. Residents of burned villages and towns resettled in the areas north of the enormous Sandomierz Forest. Probably in the second half of the 13th century, a village was established on a hill near the San river. Nisko was a royal village administratively located in the Sandomierz County in the Sandomierz Voivo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cemeteries In Poland
A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park or memorial garden, is a place where the remains of many death, dead people are burial, buried or otherwise entombed. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek language, Greek ) implies that the land is specifically designated as a burial ground and originally applied to the Ancient Rome, Roman catacombs. The term ''graveyard'' is often used interchangeably with cemetery, but a graveyard primarily refers to a burial ground within a churchyard. The intact or cremated remains of people may be interred in a grave, commonly referred to as burial, or in a tomb, an "above-ground grave" (resembling a sarcophagus), a mausoleum, a columbarium, a niche, or another edifice. In Western world, Western cultures, funeral ceremonies are often observed in cemeteries. These ceremonies or rites of passage differ according to culture, cultural practices and religion, religious beliefs. Modern cemeteries often inclu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
