The Evangelical Augsburg Cemetery (), is a historic

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Protestant necropolis located in the western

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district of

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, Poland.

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The Evangelical Cemetery of the Augsburg Confession was consecrated on 2 May 1792, designed by the architect

Szymon Bogumił Zug Szymon Bogumił Zug (20 February 1733 – 11 August 1807), born Simon Gottlieb Zug, and also known as Zugk, was a renowned Polish- German classicist architect and designer of gardens. Born in Merseburg in Saxony, he spent most of his life in t ...

. More than 100,000 people have been buried at the cemetery since its opening in 1792. During the

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of 1794 and during

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, intense fighting took place at the cemetery. Worth seeing is the neoclassical ''Halpert family chapel'' (1835), which serves the Lutheran community. The chapel was rebuilt in 1975, however, many historic and monumental tombstones are in need of restoration. As in the Roman Catholic

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, a committee for the restoration of the cemetery has been established, and collects money on

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for the treasures of the burial ground to be returned to their former glory.

Selected notable burials

A few of the notable people buried here: *

Juliusz Bursche Juliusz Bursche (19 September 1862 in Kalisz – 20 February 1942?) was a bishop of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland. A vocal opponent of Nazi Germany, after the German invasion of Poland in 1939, he was arrested by the Germans, tor ...

(1862–1942), bishop of the

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. A vocal opponent of Nazi Germany, after the

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in 1939 he was arrested by the Germans, tortured, and sent to

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where he died *

Wojciech Gerson Wojciech Gerson (; 1 July 1831 – 25 February 1901) was a Polish painter, educator, architect and art critic who was one of the foremost representatives of the Polish school of Realism during the foreign Partitions of Poland. He served as long ...

(1831–1901),

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painter and professor *

Samuel Linde Samuel Bogumił Linde (born Samuel Gottlieb Linde; Toruń, 11 or 24 April 1771 – 8 August 1847, Warsaw) was a Polish linguist, librarian, and lexicographer of Swedish-German extraction. He was director of the Prussian-founded Warsaw Lyceum dur ...

(1771–1847),

linguist, librarian, and lexicographer of the

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Johann Christian Schuch Johann Christian Schuch (or Jan Chrystian Szuch; 1752 – 28 June 1813) was a Dresden-born garden designer and architect, active in Poland. Life Schuch learned gardening from his father, a House of Wettin court gardener. Later he studied pain ...

(1752–1813),

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-born garden designer and architect, active in Poland *

(1733–1807), Polish-German classicist architect and designer of gardens * Karol Ernest Wedel (1813–1902), Polish-German entrepreneur and founder of Poland's most famous chocolate brand E. Wedel * Wiesław Wernic (1906−1986), popular

writer and journalist, best known for his series of

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books, sometimes called "Polish

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" *

Edward Kłosiński Edward Stefan Kłosiński (; 2 January 1943, in Warsaw – 5 January 2008, in Milanówek) was a Polish cinematographer. Life and work Kłosiński completed his studies at the National Film School in Lodz in 1967. His screen debut came in 1972; i ...

(1943−2008),

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* Michalina Wisłocka (1921−2005),

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, and

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of ''Sztuka kochania'' (''The Art of Loving'', 1976) *

Gabriela Kownacka Gabriela Anna Kownacka (née Kwasz) (25 May 1952, Wrocław – 30 November 2010, Warsaw) was a Polish film and stage actress, best known for playing in the Polish TV series ''Rodzina zastępcza''. Kownacka was a Lutheranism, Lutheran. She has st ...

(1952−2010),

film and theater

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* Adam Pilch (1965–2010), military chaplain

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