in Tadeusza Kościuszki Park in Katowice
About the exhibition
The Lapidarium is a part of the historic wooden church complex located in the Kościuszki Park in Katowice.
The Museum of Katowice History had collected the artifacts shown there for a few years. When the collection formed a cohesive whole, an initiative was undertaken to prepare an open air exhibition. At present, it comprises: a mining boundary stone from Upper Silesia, made of sandstone, a granite paving stone found in the vicinity of Graniczna Street in Katowice, the first ledger stone from a common grave of Silesian insurgents from the cemetery in Janów, found in Mysłowice in 2008, the tombstone of the chief accountant Carl Peschel found in the Józefowiec district in 2008, most probably originally placed in the no longer existent lutheran cemetery in Damrota Street in Katowice, as well as the tombstone of Szczepan Gajda, a farmer from Dąb, relocated from the parish cemetery in this district.
The ceremonial opening and dedication of the site where the stone objects are located took place on 29 April 2009.
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