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THE PARISH CEMETERY

The Roman catholic cemetery is located at the Cmentarna street. It is one of the oldest cemetery in Poland ( one of the five oldest cementary in Poland). The area which the cemetery is located nowadays in medieval times and in modern times first belongs to a settlement outside city walls , then to the castellan borough and afterwards it belongs to the the wooden-stone castle which now is called The Castle Mountain or the Queen Bona Mountain. The development of Wizna that took place in the breakthrough of the Middle Ages and modern times led to a rapid growth of settlement outside the borough. The town square was set down and the cemetary was located further in the neighbourhood of the so called New Church Gardens ( years 1500-1522 ). Due to the citizens leaving the borough and loosing the importance by the borough authorities which is between the old borough and the current settlement , the settlemet outside city walls area was decided to be a cemetary. The close location to the village proves that the Wizna cemetary is older than XIX century. In this specific time the cemetries were situated outside the village or were moved outside a village.

The existing gravestones prove that cemetary in Wizna was used in XIX century. There were some problems with the keeping of the cemetary which we can discover from the Lomza distric chief letter from 27 May1858. It says that the cemertary had been abonded and left untidy. Since then it was pointed out that extension of the cemetary is needed which happenned most likely in 1894. A few well kept historic gravestones indicate that some citizens of the Wizna royal town came from high social status class. We can also find the January Uprising Soldiers grave from 1863 there.

As we can learn fron the local legend there is a underground tunnel leading from the cemetary to the Church. This road was used by the Queen Bona when she stopped in Wizna on her way to Lithuania.

Elaboration: Agnieszka Sawicka, Krystyna Wileńska, Agnieszka Osiecka i Małgorzata Modzelewska.

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