Lipowy Cemetery in Gliwice

Lipowy Cemetery (Cmentarz Lipowy) lies in the Zatorze district of Gliwice. It was founded in 1885 as a municipal, multi-denominational cemetery, covering about 6 ha.

War plots and the children’s memorial

During the First World War plots were set aside in which soldiers of various nationalities were buried: 196 Germans, 230 Russians, 16 Romanians and an unknown number of Serbs, French and Italians. In March 1919 56 children who died in a fire in a concert hall were buried in a collective grave (there were 76 victims in all). A monument with a sculpture by Paul Ondrusch showing Christ with children was erected on the grave. In 1927 the soldiers were commemorated with a figure of the Madonna carved by Hanns Breitenbach.

Extension and those buried here

In 2003 the cemetery was enlarged by 5.17 ha of land that had previously belonged to the Park of Culture and Recreation; the new part was laid out on the model of a park. Buried in Lipowy Cemetery are, among others, professors of the Silesian University of Technology, including Stanisław Fryze, and the actress Krystyna Filipczak-Feliks.

Practical information

• Zatorze district, Gliwice; this is an active municipal cemetery.
• Nearby: the Gliwice Radio Tower and the Park of Culture and Recreation.