History
In the mid-nineteenth century on the existing necropolises there was a problem related to the lack of new burial places, at that time the Evangelical parish of the Blessed Virgin Mary asked the municipality to designate a place for a new cemetery. It was set to the east of the Kumieli River, by the road leading to Wittenfelde, that is, the current Witoshev. In 1894, a new cemetery of the parish was erected at the neighboring westward plot of land. Anne (Neuer Sankt Annen-Friedhof). In 1904 a new Mennonite cemetery (Mennoniten-Friedhof) was located next to it, and along the current Kosciuszko street, the parish cemetery of Saint. Nicholas (Neuer Sankt Nikolai-Friedhof). In 1913, Wittenfelde (Witoszewo) was incorporated into the city limits of ElblÄ
g, and the road running next to the cemetery was named JahnstraĂe. In the second half of the 1930s, four necropolises were merged into one municipal cemetery (Städtische Friedhof) (a municipal guide from 1935 mentions cemeteries as unconnected). In 1946, the Polish authorities issued a permit to continue the operation of the municipal cemetery, at that time JahnstraĂe changed its name to Agrykola, and it also covered the neighboring cemetery. The Mennonite cemetery was encircled and its place was taken by the war cemetery of the Red Army, which was ceremonially opened on February 6, 1946. In the oldest part of the cemetery, war quarters were separated, where prisoners of many nationalities are buried, as well as Polish, Italian and French soldiers and victims of World War II, there is also a grave of defenders from September 1939. At the Agrykol cemetery, the victims of December 1970 were also buried: Waldemar Rebinin, Zbyszek Godlewski and Marian Sawicz. In the years 1978-1982, the former cemetery chapel was extended according to the archival design of CzesĹaw Taraszkiewicz, creating the church of All Saints, and in 1983 a Katyn cross was placed next to the Redemptorist priests' quarters. Among the buried are, among others * ZdzisĹaw Olszewski * gen. BolesĹaw Nieczuja-Ostrowski [source: Wikipedia, 4007120]
