War cemetery no. 80 - Sękowa - a cemetery from World War I located in the eastern part of the village of Sękowa in the Gorlice poviat, in the Sękowa commune, designed by Hans Mayr. One of over 400 Western Galician war cemeteries built by the War Graves Department of the C. and K. Military Command in Krakow. It belongs to the 3rd Cemetery District of Gorlice. The cemetery has a T-shape and an area of 2,244 m². It is surrounded on 4 sides by a stone fence. In the central part of the cemetery there is a concrete cross surrounded by two flights of stairs, behind which there is a concrete lattice structure in the shape of a pergola. The stairs lead to the highest part of the cemetery, where the construction of a multi-story temple was planned[2].
The graves are marked with tombstones in two forms. One is a cast-iron cross with the inscription 1915, the other is a concrete stele with cast-iron plaques with a list of buried soldiers.
1,206 soldiers were buried in the cemetery in 23 individual graves and 85 mass graves who died in March and May 1915:
468 citizens of Austria-Hungary, including: with IR 18, IR 28, IR 35, IR 36, IR 56, IR 100, IR 98, 1st Tyrolean Imperial Rifle Regiment (T.K.J.R. 1), 3rd Tyrolean Imperial Rifle Regiment (T.K.J.R. 3), 4th Tyrolean Imperial Rifle Regiment (T.K.J.R. 4) ); 378 German soldiers, including with PREUSS. INF. RGT. 46; 360 Russian soldiers.
Source: wikipedia.org
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