Former military cemetery from 1846, of which a square remains with a fragment of the wall and old trees.
The Garrison Cemetery in Szczecin is a former military necropolis. It was brought into use on 25 March 1846, and its site is today occupied by a square in the city centre. Until 1945 it bore the German name Neuer Militär Kirchhof.
The cemetery was intended for soldiers of the Prussian regiments stationed in the nearby barracks. It occupied the area between today's Mikołaja Kopernika and ks. Sambora streets and Plac Zwycięstwa. Over time its area shrank: first in 1906, when construction began on the Bugenhagenkirche (today the garrison Church of St Adalbert), and a second time in 1926, when the western part was cut off during the widening of Kopernika Street. The necropolis was closed before 1939.
On the former cemetery a square named after Friedrich Ackermann, a mayor of Szczecin, was laid out, with old trees and a fragment of the cemetery wall preserved. On the Kopernika Street side grows a common ash (Fraxinus excelsior) of the cultivar 'Diversifolia', known as the single-leaf ash. In the western part of the site a petrol station now stands. Nearby is the monument to Kornel Ujejski.
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