Garrison Cemetery Grudziadz

The Garrison Cemetery (also known as the lower cemetery) was established in 1807 for the burial of soldiers who died during the siege by Napoleon's army . Later, the deceased Prussian prisoners of war were buried here as well. During the world wars, German soldiers who died in hospitals in Grudziądz were also buried here. In the interwar period, the cemetery was the burial place of Polish soldiers, including those who died in the Polish-Bolshevik War of 1919-1921.

The Garrison Cemetery was damaged in the fighting of 1945 and the Polish soldiers' quarters of the 1919-1921 war were leveled afterward. The German graves were exhumed and reburied at the German War Cemetery near Mławka.

This cemetery contains the graves of many war veterans, including:

- Major General Stefan Kasprzycki de Castelnedolo
- Major General Stanislaw Pruszyński

SYMBOLIC MASS GRAVE
This memorial is erected in 1996 and commemorates the Polish soldiers who died in nearby hospitals between 1920 and 1921 and subsequently buried here on this cemetery. Their graves were largely destroyed in the fighting for Grudziadz in 1945, after which the headstones were removed and the area razed to the ground.

An information sign at the memorial contains the names of Polish soldiers who are certain to have been buried here.

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Source

• Text: Kaj Metz
• Photos: Wikimedia Commons (1), Wikimedia Commons (2)