Vor 100 Jahren: Schlacht bei Waplewo – Waplitz nahe Hohenstein
16.08.2014
he Great Cross at the WWI Cemetery in Waplewo (Olsztynek) formerly Waplitz (Hohenstein) where lie approx.700 soldiers (half Polish) who perished in that part of the Battle of the Mazurian Lakes (Tannenberg II) which took place at Waplitz on August 28, 1914. The cemetery was restored to its original design by Mrg. Mazena Zwierowicz, landscape architect, with funds provided by the government of Germany and with the cooperation of Polish and German soldiers who worked together preparing the site for restoration during joint summer manoevres.
The family of Dr. and Mrs. Ronald A. Pulaski Dwight
and the R.C. Parish of
St. Stanislaw Church, Waplewo,
Ks. Jan Koniec
have organized ecumenical prayers (in Polish
and German) and
an organ recital on newly restored tracker organ
to honor the
100th anniversary of the Battle of Waplewo-Waplitz
on Saturday, the twenty-third day of August
at three o’clock in the afternoon
at the restored WWI Cemetery Park in Waplewo
(Olsztynek) (exit Waplewo-Gasiarowo-Jadamowo on
Warsaw-Gdansk Hwy No. 7)
Prayer leaders:
Ks. Jan Koniec, Kosiol Sw. Stanislawa, Waplewo
Ks. Waldemar Radacz, Pastor,
D. Bonhoeffer Church, London, UK
Organist:
Stanislaw Deja
Jerzy Kalina, artistic director