Warsaw. Traditional collection for Stare Powązki. They gather on the northern part of the Catacombs Avenue
The annual fundraiser for the renovation of graves in Stare Powązki is underway. Marcin Święcicki, the former president of Warsaw, the Social Welfare Committee and the Old Powązki, told the TVN24 reporter about her role.
Investing in the Powązki Cemetery for many years of experience. This year, the wealth of money for the protection and renovation of Stare Powązki is taking place for the 48th time. – There are many wonderful buildings and chapels here. It is the greatest open-air extraction material in Poland. When great Poles were dying, during the partitions, they could not be placed monuments in the streets of Warsaw, but could be made in Powązki. Unfortunately, on the other side of the website, these monuments fell into ruin – said Marcin Święcicki.
As recalled, the writer on the monument took care of his monument and material fundraising initiated 1974 and the writer and public Jerzy Waldorff.
This year they are gathering on the northern part of the Catacombs Avenue
Święcicki was asked what Powązki would look like without collecting money. – I read Waldorff’s descriptions ruined on one. Part of the cemetery was bombed during the war, and other monuments simply fell apart. There were vandal benchmarks, tabs, chapels were collapsing. The trees growing next to them broke, described Święcicki.
– Conservators who want to sculpt can draw on a future painting to create the situation that is here. There are graves here, where the statue on the pedestal has not been found. Only beautiful fences and inscriptions were made. The figure itself was impossible to recreate. But we manage to create a head with means – he says.
As Święcicki announced, this year they are collected on the floods of the catacomb alley side. – In a few years of renovation passed south side of the avenue. Now we will focus on the north side – he pointed out. I added that the Graves are also being restored. This year we are renovating, caring for the five fallen, protesting against the tsarist rule in 1861, also against the game of Deotyma – a Polish poet who died in 1908.
Who is collecting?
This year, about 350 people were invited to fundraising in Powązki. Among them are participants of the first fundraising in 1975 – Maja Komorowska, Damian Damięcki and Olgierd Łukaszewicz. Invest to be also Emilia Krakowska, Alicja Majewska, Kazimierz Kaczor, Artur Barcis and Magdalena Zawadzka.
In addition to actors, journalists, musicians and writers, the invitation was received, among others, by Minister of Culture and National Heritage Piotr Gliński, arrival of the Warsaw authorities headed by Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski, Deputy Speaker of the Sejm Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska, General Conservator of Monuments Jarosław Sellin, artists from the “Mazowsze” group, the Society of Warsaw Friends, the Society of Railway Enthusiasts and the Fowl Brotherhood, also scholarship holders of the Dzieło Nowy Tysiąclecia foundation.
Immediately fundraisers join the ranks of the high school for them. Adam Mickiewicz in Warsaw, whose graduates were – buried in the Powązki Cemetery – incl. Jan Kobuszewski, Edward Dziewoński, Jan Nowak Jeziorański, Wiesław Chrzanowski, Miron Białoszewski and Stefan Starzyński.
History of collecting money in Powązki
The first fundraiser for Powązek on November 1, 1975 It was organized by the Social Welfare Committee and Old Powązki established a year earlier. Almost 200 actors, musicians, writers and artists took part in it. The idea of the idea of creating a new history The above history of the creation of a popular history and debut on the starting boards also after the death of the author’s profession and renovation of Jerzy Waldorff. In 2014, by the decision of President Bronisław Komorowski, Stare Powązki was recognized as a historical monument.
The issue lasted continuously from 1975 to 2019. A pandemic of the service facility. – cemeteries were closed at the last minute. Live contesting of the source material of the network. In 2021, picking up in cans resumed.
Last year’s issues were collected over 200 thousand. zloty. 1518 restoration works.
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