The unusual memorial of the victims of Great War in Obříství in Mělník district

At the introduction of the article the authors attempt to draw a basic standartization of the monuments and memorials of soldiers perished in WW I on the teritory of Czech Lands. Next they keep a thorough analysis of the growth and commemorative using of the memorial of victims of Great War in Obříství village in Mělnicko district. Their intentions is to find the reason why this memorial has an unusual form of a symbolic cemetery which is not typical for this kind of buildings. The reason for the form lies with the fact that the main person who was responsible for the inspiration and organisation of the growth of the memorial was the priest in Obříství Karel Peininger. This is also a very unusual feature of the memorial because the monuments and memorials in Czechoslovakia between the world wars were symbols of a secularized ideology of the new state