Garrison Cemetery in GrudziÄ
dz - closed cemetery near the GrudziÄ
dz Citadel, at ul. 18. PuĹk UĹanĂłw Pomorskich. Along with the casting of the fortress, the crew needed a cemetery. Over the years, three cemeteries close to each other were created, two of which have survived to this day: the Garrison Cemetery and the War Cemetery. In addition, a significant part of the dead were buried in the citadel. The Garrison Cemetery (also called the Upper) was created in 1807 for the burial of soldiers who died during the siege by the Napoleonic army. Later, dead prisoners of war were buried there, and during World War I and II, German soldiers who died in GrudziÄ
dz hospitals. In the interwar period, the cemetery was the burial place of Polish soldiers. Especially during the Polish-Bolshevik war, when GrudziÄ
dz was the place where the wounded from the northern part of the front were evacuated. The generals of Stefan de Castenedolo Kasprzycki and StanisĹaw PruszyĹski were buried in the cemetery. During the fighting for GrudziÄ
dz in 1945, the cemetery was repeatedly hit with artillery shells. Unused and disordered, it fell into disrepair. It was ordered in preparation for Willie Brandt's visit to Poland in 1970. The graves of the victims of the Polish-Bolshevik war were looted. In 1996, German soldiers who were killed during the Second World War were exhumed and their remains were transferred to the collective cemetery near MĹawka. A small mound was also built and a plaque commemorating the victims of the Polish-Bolshevik war was erected. In 2010, a table containing a list of these victims was unveiled. Many tombstones, stellias and slabs have been preserved in the cemetery. The layout of the cemetery is visible (with a subdivision and accommodation division for 7 lodgings). [source: Wikipedia, 3478906]
| type of the cemetery | military |
| state of the cemetery | closed |
| [source: Wikipedia, 3478906] |
