DAROWNE
War cemetery for the soldiers of various nationalities who fought in the Austro-Hungarian and Russian armies and died in 1914
The World War I cemetery is located on the edge of the forest, northeast of the village of Darowne. Several dozen Austro-Hungarian soldiers (including from the 13th Presbyburg Landsturm Infantry Regiment from today's Bratislava) and Russian soldiers who died in combat on August 27, 1914, during the Austro-Hungarian attack on Russian positions were buried here.
The cemetery was founded on a rectangular plan with dimensions of 28 x 24 m. There are three mass graves (one 10 x 4 m and two 8 x 4 m) and 14 single graves arranged symmetrically in a horseshoe. An erratic boulder, without an inscription, was placed vertically in the middle of the cemetery. According to local tradition, the stone was brought to this place by a Wehrmacht soldier, whose unit was stationed at the site in Poniatowa until June 1941.
In 2014, the Regional Directorate of State Forests in Lublin, and the Austrian Black Cross, tidied up the graves and funded a monument dedicated to the victims of World War I fights.
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