The Parish Cemetery in Wola Kiełpińska
The parish cemetery in Wola Kiełpińska
was delimited in 1893. Some families transferred
the ashes of their loved ones from the
cemetery in Zegrze, seized by the Russian
for the construction of the fortress, to the
new one. That is why we can find graves
older than the cemetery itself, dating back
to the second half of the 19th century. Among
them, we can find some architecturally interesting
monuments of the administrators
of the Zegrze estate, like the grave of Antoni
Xsiężopolski, in the shape of a broken column,
who died on September 11, 1866, and
the tombstones of the Urbanowski family.
In 1929, Zygmunt Adam Szaniawski, Junosza
coat of arms (1852-1929), father of the famous
writer Jerzy Szaniawski (1888-1970),
owner of the nearby Zegrzynek, was also
buried in Wola Kiełpińska.
Among those buried in the cemetery, we should mention a January Uprising participant Feliks Janicki from Stanislawów (1837-1923), carpenter who rendered great service to the construction of the church and a Home Army soldier Leszek Wnęka – a recipient of the Poland’s highest military decoration, the War Order of Virtuti Militari.
In the cemetery of Wola Kiełpińska, resides mass grave of the Polish Army soldiers who died in September 1939, and the tomb of two soldiers of the 5th Engineer-Sapper Brigade who died while defusing a mine in June 1945.
The grave of Colonel Aleksander Kita, killed by the Security Service in 1952, bears an appropriate inscription indicating this fact.
Among those buried in the cemetery, we should mention a January Uprising participant Feliks Janicki from Stanislawów (1837-1923), carpenter who rendered great service to the construction of the church and a Home Army soldier Leszek Wnęka – a recipient of the Poland’s highest military decoration, the War Order of Virtuti Militari.
In the cemetery of Wola Kiełpińska, resides mass grave of the Polish Army soldiers who died in September 1939, and the tomb of two soldiers of the 5th Engineer-Sapper Brigade who died while defusing a mine in June 1945.
The grave of Colonel Aleksander Kita, killed by the Security Service in 1952, bears an appropriate inscription indicating this fact.