Cemeteries and monuments
a necropolis with war graves, a memorial wall and a flood grave from 1997
Cemeteries and monuments
site of a Jewish cemetery from 1815-1931, destroyed in 1940, now a green square
Cemeteries and monuments
monument from 2018 by the station honouring the founders of the Rybnik music school
Cemeteries and monuments
a four-metre bronze monument to the Pope in front of the basilica in the centre of Rybnik
Cemeteries and monuments in Rybnik: the municipal cemetery, the former Jewish cemetery site, and the Szafranek and John Paul II monuments.
Two burial sites and two statues in town, which together sketch Rybnik's past through its graves and street sculpture.
The municipal cemetery lies in the Północ district, by Rudzka and Kotucza streets. It includes former denominational sections, graves of insurgents and a memorial wall; within its boundaries lay the former Catholic, Evangelical and Jewish cemeteries, the last of which no longer exists.
The Jewish cemetery is described separately: a burial ground founded in 1815 and closed in 1931, which the German occupier ruined in 1940. A green square now covers the site. Among the monuments, the monument to John Paul II, a four-metre bronze figure outside the main gate of the Basilica of St Anthony of Padua, and the Szafranek Brothers monument on the square by the railway station stand out. Other places in Rybnik are gathered under Rybnik and among its churches and monasteries, and a regional overview comes from cemeteries and monuments in Silesia.
No. It was destroyed in 1940, and a green square occupies the site today.
Karol and Antoni Szafranek, musicians and teachers, founders of the Rybnik music school.
