War Cemetery No. 46 - Konieczna

War Cemetery No. 46 lies in Konieczna in Uście Gorlickie municipality, in the Low Beskids. It was established in 1915 for soldiers who fell in January and February of that year. Soldiers of the Austro-Hungarian and Russian armies are buried in it.

Who is buried here

According to Wikipedia, 303 soldiers are buried here: 168 Austro-Hungarian (163 identified and 5 unidentified) and 135 Russian (1 identified and 134 unidentified). The graves form 6 mass graves and 48 single ones, and the cemetery covers 2,047 sq. m. Austro-Hungarian soldiers are marked by Latin crosses, Russian ones by Orthodox crosses, all with wooden roofs and carved plaques.

Designer and layout

According to Wikipedia, the cemetery was designed by Dušan Jurkovič, on the plan of a Latin cross. The main element is a two-storey, twenty-metre stone tower on a stone terrace. The fence is made of wooden posts joined by stone pillars with wooden roofs. The cemetery belongs to Cemetery District I Żmigród. Construction was supervised by the War Graves Section of the Imperial and Royal Military Command in Kraków, and conservation work was carried out in the 1960s.

Protection

The cemetery is entered in the heritage register under number 644 of 25 March 1993.

Practical information

• Location: Konieczna, Uście Gorlickie municipality, Gorlice County.
• Hours and rules of entry could not be established from the sources; look for information at the Uście Gorlickie municipal office.
• In the area there is the monument to St Priest Maksym Sandovych and the victims of the Thalerhof camp, and on the mountain ridge the Rotunda.