Central Cemetery in Szczecin, Cemetery park in Szczecin, Poland
Central Cemetery is a 172-hectare park in Szczecin with 11 kilometers of roads and 60 kilometers of paths running through its grounds. The layout combines open meadows with dense tree clusters and small ponds scattered across the entire site.
Wilhelm Meyer-Schwartau designed the grounds in 1901, drawing on models from Hamburg and Vienna necropolises. It has since grown into the largest burial ground in Poland and survived the shifting history of the city.
German and Polish burial sites now share the grounds, where historian Hugo Lemcke and the Stoewer metalworking family rest among many others. The names carved on older stones reveal generations of families and the shifting communities who lived here.
Two marked trails guide visitors through the grounds: one leads to historical monuments, the other showcases notable tree species. Visitors can walk at their own pace year-round and take time to explore the wide-ranging landscape.
The grounds host 415 species of trees and shrubs from different continents and function as a dendrological garden. Among the specimens are species from North America and Asia rarely seen in Europe.
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