Tourist routes in Poznań: Fortress and memorials
Cemetery of Distinguished Great Poland's People, Poznań / Piotr Skórnicki / Agencja Gazeta
Cemetery of Distinguished Great Poland's People
In the midst of ancient forest, situated on the eastern slope of St. Adalbert of Prague's Hill, this cemetery-park covers an area of 1.8 hectares and is Poznan's oldest one. It was founded as St Mary Magdalene's parish graveyard and later it was called old parish cemetery when the parish had a new cemetery area at today's Grunwaldzka Street. In 1948 it was named Distinguished People's Cemetery. Near the entrance there is a figure of Virgin Mary (1771), moved there from a square in front of Franciscan Convent in Śródka. Some of the tombstones are pure works of art e.g. Aniela Dembinska's made in 1889 by Władysław Marcinkowski in Paris. The oldest tombstones come from 1813 and 1815. On the necropolis there are graves of distinguished citizens of Poznan and Great Poland, veterans of Napoleonic wars and national uprisings, social, science and culture activists. Some of the ashes were brought there from other cemeteries in the mid-20th century.