Szczecin cemetery is located in east part of Gumience districts and it is the biggest one in Poland and one of the biggest in the world.

In 1900 Prussian designer Wilhelm Meyer-Schwartau created it. People from Szczecin call central cemetery “Lugs of Szczecin” because it is the biggest park in the city. In our cemetery there is over 300 000 graves.

In 1902 main chapel was built in Neoroman style. Nowadays priests celebrate masses in the chapel.

Our cemetery is a great tourist object. You can find fourteen monuments there, for example Monument of Hero’s of September 1939, Cross of Katyn, Iron Cross of Victims of France-Prussia 1870 War, Monument of Victims of Stalin. There is also a Dutch XIX centuries windmill. There is a shop with plants and candles in the windmill nowadays.

Szczecin cemetery is a huge park (163 ha). Most of the citizens of Szczecin and tourists enjoy strolling through it. There is also a Lapidary which was built in 1911 but destroyed during the war and reconstructed in 2006.

We can find also animals in “Lungs of Szczecin” for example: pigeons, pheasants, badgers, hares, hedgehogs, squirrels. We have to remember that we must not feed them!

There are over 360 kinds of trees and shrubs from most of the nooks of the world. We can find there:

European: beech, oak, pine, chestnut-tree, plane –tree, birch

North American: Californian fir-tree, Sliver maple, red and green oak, Silver spruce

Far Eastern: Ginkgo biloba, forsythia, cherry-tree.

In my opinion we should often visit Central Cemetery in Szczecin . It is a place where we enjoy wandering among Far Eastern trees in the centre of Szczecin. We can also visit huge tombs of Prussian barons and other interesting graves.

1^st Distinction: Tomasz Bastian-Brzezinski