A parish cemetery from the mid-19th century with a plot of 261 First World War soldiers and cast-iron crosses designed by Hans Mayr.
The parish cemetery in Rajcza, founded in the mid-19th century, lies by the village's main road, near the church, and on the other side above the Soła. It covers about 20 ares and is entered in the heritage register. It also has a separate war plot.
The parish in Rajcza was established in 1844. Earlier, the dead were buried by the old wooden church at the foot of Mount Compel. The new cemetery served mainly parishioners, while the Jews of Rajcza were buried in Milówka, where a Jewish community had operated since 1891. It is managed by the parish of St Lawrence and St Casimir the Prince.
In the north-western part is a military plot. It holds 261 soldiers from the First World War who were treated in the sanatorium in the palace in Rajcza and died after 1918, mainly of tuberculosis. Most of the graves are topped with cast-iron crosses designed by Hans Mayr, with motifs of the Iron Cross, a sword and a wreath, cast at the foundry in Węgierska Górka. In 1997 the plot was fenced and the crosses were renovated. The cemetery also contains a collective grave of the victims of the pacification of the Czaniecki settlement in Rycerka Górna in 1945, and the graves of, among others, Captain Franciszek Joniak (1894-1921), a holder of the Virtuti Militari, and Wacław Majewski (1882-1977), the founder of the Academic Sports Association.
By the road, in the corner of the cemetery, stands a stone statue of St John of Nepomuk with polychrome. The cemetery chapel was extended around 2006 to a design by the Mpstudio studio in Żywiec.
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