Miejsca upamietniajace powstanie styczniowe na ziemi krzeszowickiej
Places commemorating the January Uprising in the Krzeszowice region

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the places commemorating the Krzeszowice participants of Polish insurrection activities durign the January Uprising (1863-1864). To observe the 150th anniversary of the January Uprising outbreak, the present article attempts to collect the information concerning traces of the Uprising in the Krzeszowice region. Although there were no military activity in the region, weapons were collected, volunteers set out from here, and this is were wounded participants of the fights were treated. Krzeszowice and the adjoining areas were the places where the participants of the Uprising and the exiles to Siberia spent the final years of their lives. The article indicates places of remembrance and the insurgents' tombs. Many of the tombs no longer exist; some of the inscriptions are indecipherable. War toms in the region are inventoried, yet until now there hae been no records of tomby holding the remains of Insurrections participants deceased after the military activities. In Krzeszowice, the insurgents' tombs are the most visible testimony to independence-seeking activities.

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