Epitaph 1

IM IARE 1588 DEN 21

MAI IST DIE THUGENTSA=

ME FRAV VRSVLA KNAVE=

RIN HANS HILISCHERS

BVRGERS ALHIR ELICHE 

HAVS FRAVE ZVVOR ABER

IM 86 IOR DEN 29 IVLI IHR

GELIPTES SENEN PAVLVS

IN GOT SELICKLICHEN EIN

GESCHAEFEN LIGEN

ALHIR BEGRABEN WAR=

TEN AVF DI ZVKVNFT

CHRISTI SAMT ALLEN

AVSER WELTEN

In the year 1588, on 21st May was [buried]

The virtuous Mrs. Ursula Knauerin,

Wife of Hans Hilischer,

Local burgher, and earlier,

In [15]86 on 29^th July,

her beloved son Paulus

created dead in God

They rest here

Waiting for the Christ to come

With all his chosen ones

Text of the inscription is carved in majuscule with convex letters.Under the inscription is a house mark of Hilischer.

Location:

West side of the church, to the left from the southern aisle entrance. Rectangular sandstone plaque, currently mounted in the church wall with cement.

The Hilschers belonged to an old, wealthy family of bourgeois of Jelenia Góra. Around 1480 Georg Hilscher was the mayor of the town. Another representative of the family, Hans Hilscher, was a carpenter master in the 16^th century. Hans Hilscher was probably a merchant.

Edited by Ivo Łaborewicz

Translated by Agnieszka Krzysztoń