Old Municipal Cemetery in Stargard

The Old Municipal Cemetery in Stargard is the largest and oldest of the town's necropolises that exist today. It was founded in 1910, and its main gate opens onto Kościuszki Street. The cemetery covers nearly 20 hectares and is partly a wooded walking area.

How the cemetery came about

It was originally an extension of an older cemetery, on whose site Batory Park now lies, and was called the New Cemetery (Neuen Friedhof). More than 25,000 residents of Stargard rest here. When space ran out, a new cemetery was opened in Giżynek in 2002, and burials in the old one now take place only on the sites of liquidated, unpaid graves.

Trees, plaques and plots

Here grow Weymouth pines, beeches, horse chestnuts, oaks, elms and limes. By the main avenue and one of its side streets stand more than 80 tree-form specimens of Turkish hazel, which were most probably planted when the cemetery was laid out. By the main gate is a plaque paying tribute to the dead of Stargard, Germans and Poles, and beside it two pre-war grave plaques.

A separate plot holds the remains of 64 sappers and two medical orderlies who were killed clearing mines in the city in 1945. Among those buried are also the Polish swimming champion and Olympian Władysław Wojtakajtis and the composer Marek Jasiński.

Practical information

• Main gate: Kościuszki Street, further entrances from Spokojna and Przedwiośnie streets.
• By the main gate are a funeral home and the cemetery administration rooms.
• The cemetery is a burial ground, where quiet and conduct appropriate to a place of rest are expected.