This First World War military cemetery was established next to the field hospital near the barracks of the 4th Grenadier Regiment of King Frederick the Great. Buried in the cemetery are 258 German soldiers, 75 Russian soldiers, 2 French soldiers and 1 Romanian soldier. Among them, 101 died as a result of wounds received during the Battle of the Masurian Lakes in September 1914.
In accordance with the instructions on the layout of war cemeteries issued by the provincial advisory office for the commemoration of wars, the design of the cemetery was carried out in 1918 by Karl Stoffregen, an architect from Bremen, a few years after its creation in 1914. It was a park-cemetery, with pathways, tree plantings and rows of earthen graves. The whole was dominated by a stone rotunda built by the local firm of Martin Modricker, and dedicated to the memory of the soldiers of the grenadier regiment and of the field artillery regiment who died during the First World War. Inside, there was a cubic obelisk dedicated to the memory of 1,330 soldiers from the Kętrzyn county, killed in various wars. The inauguration ceremony of the cemetery took place on 2 May 1926 during the celebration of the tercentenary of the founding of the 4th Grenadier Regiment, one of the oldest regiments of the Prussian army.
After the Second World War, when the region became Polish, the cemetery was destroyed. It is now listed in the register of historic monuments and is a protected site. The cemetery was renovated thanks to the efforts of the Zofia Licharewa society of friends of the Kętrzyn region. Pathways were created, fragments of the stone rotunda were exposed, and large wooden crosses were placed. During the clearing work, a few remains of soldiers' gravestones were found. At the site of the rotunda are the remains of a few plaques bearing names (no trace of the French). In April 2005, a stone commemorating the German soldiers killed in south-west Africa in the years 1904-1906 was moved from the park of the former military casino to the cemetery. Two obelisks mark the entrance to the cemetery. Panels explain the history of the site.