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Cementerio Evangélico de Las Confesiones de Augsburgo

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Evangelical Cemetery of the Augsburg Confessions

I had no idea how many Protestant denominations existed, nor that so many are in Poland. The Evangelical Cemetery of the Augsburg Confession is very close to the Evangelical-Reformed Cemetery. Founded in 1792, it's in Wola neighborhood (at that time outside the city limits) and during the fighting of the Kościuszko Uprising (1794) and during World War II, the cemetery became a battlefield. After the war the Lutherans were commissioned to rebuild it, even today many headstones have not been restored. There are over 100,000 people buried there, including Emil Wedel, founder of the famous Wedel Chocolates,

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