The cemetery of Sady

The cemetery of Sady in the community of Czosnów shows some surprises. The cemetery is located near to the street No. 576 in neighborhood of a pig farm which stinks up the area. Some huge trees in a special area, which sets off against the wood, point to the cemetery. At the cemetery there are young beech trees and black locust mixed with lilac. The cemetery is rather good accessible. The wooden cemetery cross is still standing. There are a lot of grave borders and a decorated new iron cross at an obviously old grave. At several places there ar pig bones lying between the graves.

But the surprise can be found in the northern part of the cemetery. In this old part of the cemetery there is a small assembly of steles and parts of gravestones. Some of the very detailed (almost talkative) inscriptions proove the old age of these gravestones. One of the inscriptions gives as year of death 1849. It's a great pity that not more of these old stones are preserved. What wonderful things we could learn from them about our ancestors!

Learn more about the location of the cemetery.

Source information for this cemetery was found in: Szalygin, 1:25.000.

Photos and other contributions for the documentation of this cemetery were provided by: Jutta Dennerlein.

You can choose your starting point from the following item list of the Sady cemetery or return to your query at the Cmentarze Index page.

Newer information:

Nr.	Pict.	Comment
61.1.1		View of the cemetery
61.1.2		Cemetery seen from the distance.
61.1.3		Country lane. The cemetery is on the right.
61.1.4		Country lane looking the other way in direction of the main street.
61.2.1		Grave borders
61.3.1		A rather big tree growing out of a grave.
61.4.1		Destroyed grave.
61.5.1		The wooden cemetery cross standing in the center of the cemetery.
61.6.1		The base of the cemetery cross.
61.7.1		The cemetery cross.
61.8.1		The bones of pigs can be found everywhere on the cemetery.
61.9.1		Grave with new decoration.
61.10.1		Grave of a child.
61.11.1		Grave of a young husband and father.
61.11.2		Grave of a young husband and father.
61.12.1		Grave of a wife and mother. Lower part of a monument with inscription. The name must have been on the upper part.
61.12.2		Grave of a wife and mother – detail with ornaments.
61.15.1		Fragment with epitaph.
61.16.1		Backside of a gravestone.
61.17.1		Part of a pedestal.
61.18.1		Widow Foth née Klein, remarried ...
61.18.2		Widow Foth née Klein – detail of the first name of the second husband.
61.20.1		Decorative base of a cross.
61.21.1		Grave border and the shoulder blade of a pig (?)
61.22.1		Detail
61.23.1		Grave border
61.24.1		Part of the broken fence of the cemetery. In the background: the pigsty.
61.25.1		Cemetery seen from the country lane.