Military Cemetery on St Adalbert Street in Szczecin

The military cemetery on St Adalbert Street in Szczecin was the first military cemetery in the city. Today its site is a square on General Władysław Anders Square, and a single boulder recalls its former purpose.

History of the cemetery

The cemetery was established around 1750 and occupied the area between today's St Adalbert Street, Victory Square and Stanisław Więckowski Street. Among those buried there were the Prussian field marshal Friedrich von Wrangel, who died in Berlin in 1877, and 104 French prisoners of war from the Franco-Prussian War. It was closed to burials in 1900, and its area was reduced for the construction of a new road and a tenement house. In 1913 the bodies from 577 graves were exhumed and moved to the older part of the cemetery, because the site was designated for a garrison church, later the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

After 1945

After the Second World War the site was levelled and turned into a city square, without exhumations. The only remnant is a boulder placed in the square, which comes from the gravestone of the French prisoners. In the southern part of the square, behind the church, there is a small rise in which an air-raid shelter built after 1939 is hidden.

Practical information

• Location: General Władysław Anders Square in the centre of Szczecin, by St Adalbert Street.
• The site is a publicly accessible square. There is no cemetery as such; a boulder commemorating the prisoners has survived.
• In the area, about 300 m away, stands the Port Gate.