A working 19th-century cemetery of the parish of St Odilia, with the graves of January Uprising insurgents and a mass grave of victims of the 1942 execution.
The parish cemetery in Rędziny belongs to the Roman Catholic parish of St Odilia and is in use. It lies right next to the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help. Its history goes back to the 19th century, and together with the church and the fence it was entered in the heritage register in 1988.
There are 29 historic graves, and the website devoted to the cemetery lists 30 entries, one of which is described as not found. Buried here are, among others, January Uprising insurgents: Konrad Korczak Hubicki, a participant in the skirmish at Sosnowiec, and Feliks Erazm Czaki, who died in 1921. The monument to Czaki also commemorates Fr Saturnin Czaki, parish priest from 1908 to 1921, who died in the Sachsenhausen camp. The grave of Magdalena Litwicka, the wife of an officer of the army of the Kingdom of Poland, who died in 1886, has also survived.
In the cemetery there is a grave of 20 victims of German terror, shot during a public execution in Rudniki on 11 September 1942. The bodies were initially buried in a forest and on 22 April 1945 were moved to Rędziny. The monument bears ten names, although the identity of fourteen people has been established.
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