Your personal bike guide
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Your personal bike guide
A small military cemetery in Pilaszków is located right behind the entry gate to the mansion park. The structure is surrounded by a metal fence situated on brick posts with a gate on top of which we can see the date 1939. A dozen of graves marks the resting place of Polish soldiers of the 3rd and 4th Legion Infantry Regiment of the Polish Army who were killed in the vicinity of święcice, Pilaszków and Witki between the 12th and 13th of September 1939. The fallen were buried in a mass grave in the area of the park by employees of the Pilaszków property and in the summer of 1940, the Central Welfare Council performed an exhumation and re-buried over 240 soldiers in their current resting place – at the same time, it was possible to identify over 40 of the killed. After the war, the owner of the Pilaszków property Antoni Marszewski surrounded the necropolis with a fence and hanged an inscription above the gate: “Passer-by, tell Poland: We lie here, her sons, faithful to her laws till the last hour”. Soon after that the inscription was removed by the government. Under a centrally located metal cross there is a commemorative plaque saying: Here lie / 240 Polish soldiers / from the 3rd and 4th Infantry Regiment / 2nd Legion Division / who died between / 12th and 13th September 1939 / in combat against / the Hitlerian invader / in the area of / święcice-Pilaszków-Witki / Hail their memory.
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