Cemetery on Le Ronda Street in Katowice

The parish cemetery in the Katowice district of Dąbrówka Mała, on gen. Henryka Le Ronda Street, belongs to the parish of St Anthony. It was founded in 1913 on land donated by Count Tiele-Winckler, and in May of that year the site was consecrated by the first parish priest of Dąbrówka, Fr Wawrzyniec Pucher. Today it covers 2.1135 ha.

Graves and monument

There are three places on the cemetery connected with war and the uprisings. The first is a collective grave of seven German soldiers who fell in the Second World War. The second is a collective grave of residents of Dąbrówka Mała who fell in the Silesian Uprisings and the Second World War, marked as the Monument to the Unknown Polish Soldier and Silesian Insurgent. It depicts an eagle taking flight, and the names of the fallen are carved on a plaque with a black marble cross. The third is a collective grave of prisoners of KL Auschwitz, murdered during a transport in January 1945.

Who is buried here

Those buried here include Dr Emanuel Wilczok, a historian of the zinc industry and author of a monograph on the industry of Upper Silesia, the physician Aleksander Cabalski, who ran the local medical centre, and Augustyn Rzepka, the pre-war head of the Dąbrówka Mała municipality. The zinc story is also linked to the nearby Walcownia - Zinc Metallurgy Museum, less than two kilometres away.

Practical information

• The main cemetery avenue, paved in 2010, leads from Techników Street to gen. H. Le Ronda Street.
• This is an active parish cemetery: please keep quiet and do not disturb funerals. Opening hours are set by the parish.