Three restored gravestones along the main path

Since this summer, three restored nineteenth-century gravestones have stood along the main cemetery path. This is the result of last year's collection, in which we raised nine thousand six hundred złoty.

The work was carried out by a stone conservator from Gdańsk. The sandstone was cleaned of deposits and moss, the missing parts were filled in, and the inscriptions — previously illegible — were uncovered in full. On one of the gravestones, until now anonymous, the name of a parish organist who died in 1884 was deciphered, together with the date of his forty years of service at our organ. It is hard to imagine a better coincidence in the very year in which we are restoring that same organ.

The gravestones do not belong to any family — no one has looked after them for decades. On the conservator's recommendation they have been entered in the register of the cemetery's historic features, which means they cannot be removed or replaced with new ones.

With this year's collection, in which we raised eleven thousand two hundred złoty, next year we will restore the Went family gravestone from 1878 and the cast-iron cross by the south wall.

We thank all the donors and collectors. This is work whose results become visible only after many years, but without it the cemetery would lose a little more of its oldest part with every decade.