Turzyn Cemetery

The former Turzyn Cemetery in Szczecin, also called the Torneyer Friedhof, covered over 7 ha in the block of streets formed by Mickiewicza, Noakowskiego and Jagiellońska. Today the Stanisław Noakowski Park lies on its site.

From a municipal cemetery to a park

The first burials took place in October 1848 on land set aside for the village of Turzyn, as it then was. The cemetery filled up quickly, so at the end of 1893 the town council limited the number of burials and decided that the area would in time become a city park. In 1895 a neo-Gothic chapel was built in the northern part, and the western part was cut off by the railway ring road under construction. The cemetery was finally closed to burials in 1928.

After 1945

During the Second World War Masses were held in the chapel for Polish forced labourers. In 1945 the building was damaged and later pulled down. In the 1960s the site was levelled and designated as a park, and the western part of the former cemetery was turned into allotment gardens.

What recalls the cemetery

Traces of its former function are the trees that once grew along the cemetery paths: oaks, maples and plane trees. In the western part of the park a fragment of the wall and gate has remained.

Practical information

• A park in Szczecin, between Mickiewicza, Noakowskiego and Jagiellońska Streets.
• This is a former cemetery, so please keep quiet and show respect for the place.
• Nearby is the Szczecin Central Cemetery, a working necropolis.