Poland
Silesian Voivodeship
powiat pszczyński
gmina Pszczyna
TRZY DĘBY war cemetery in Pszczyna
Poland
Silesian Voivodeship
powiat pszczyński
gmina Pszczyna
TRZY DĘBY war cemetery in Pszczyna
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Location: gmina Pszczyna, powiat pszczyński, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
In 1952, "Trzy Oby" "grew" to the rank of a war cemetery, because the exhumed corpses of the soldiers of the 6th Infantry Division of the Krakow Army were buried here, who died on September 2, 1939 in an unequal battle with the tanks of the German 5th Armored Division near Ćwiklice. The bodies of 205 soldiers from the 16th Tarnów Infantry Regiment and the 6th Light Artillery Regiment from Kraków were transferred from three graves in the vicinity of neighboring Ćwiklice.
The soldiers of the 23rd Upper Silesian Infantry Division and the 55th Infantry Division from Katowice, who fought for the village of Rudziczka and were buried there in field graves, also found their resting place in this cemetery.
Originally, a granite monument commemorating the death of the insurgents and scouts was erected at this point, and only after 34 years the others were remembered, with a separate metalwork obelisk for them. In 2009, it was decided to give this place the character of a war cemetery, accumulating everything in one monument.
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May 7, 2021
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