War Cemetery no. 388 - Kraków-Rakowice

War Cemetery no. 388 in Kraków-Rakowice is a complex of three plots from the First World War. Two lie in Rakowicki Cemetery and the third in a military necropolis on Prandoty Street. The plots in Rakowicki Cemetery were designed by the engineer Hans Mayr, and the plots on Prandoty Street by the engineer Hupert. The whole cemetery has 792 collective graves and 553 single graves.

The first plot

This is a long, narrow plot along the south-western wall of the cemetery, closed on the west by a monument wall with an inscription dedicated to those who fell in the World War of 1914-1918. About 6,700 German, Russian and Austro-Hungarian soldiers rest here, also Polish legionnaires, who are commemorated by a small monument with a line from the Riflemen's Anthem (Hymn strzelecki). In 1990 the ashes of General Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski were placed beside it in a modest grave.

The second and third plots

The second plot is V-shaped and runs along the wall on the side of Aleja 29 Listopada. In 1999 a mound monument was erected here at the burial place of civilians and soldiers of the army of the Ukrainian People's Republic who died in the internment camp in Kraków-Dąbie. The third plot on Prandoty Street is part of an Austrian war cemetery. Almost nothing of the original layout has survived, and after the rebuilding in the 1930s it is no longer known to which army the soldiers under individual crosses belong.

Practical information

• Two plots are in Rakowicki Cemetery, one on Prandoty Street.
• This is a place of remembrance; quiet and solemnity are required.