Bezimienny grób kapłana na Cmentarzu Komunalnym w Pile - zidentyfikowanie miejsca pochówku ks. Franza Westpfahla
The nameless grave of a priest in the Municipal Cemetery in Pila (Piła) - identifying the burial place ofRev. Franz Westpfah

Summary/Abstract: In the Pila (Piła) Municipal Cemetery on Motylewska Street there is an unnamed grave with an inscription stating that a priest rests there. In a relatively new necropolis, established only in 1964, some unidentified graves are rare, so it is all the more surprising that there is an ano­nymous grave hiding the remains of a clergyman. A search conducted in the records of the Pila (Piła) Municipal Cemetery Administration Office and the archives of the Pila (Piła) City Hall al­lowed us to establish beyond doubt that the grave in question is the burial place of Father Franz Westpfahl, a priest of the Pila (Piła) prelature, who died in September 1931 and was buried in the now-defunct cemetery on Polish Army Avenue in Pila (Piła). During the liquidation of this necropolis, his remains were exhumed in March 1976 and reburied in the new cemetery on Mo­tylewska Street, in a grave unmarked by any name.

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