Cemetery

Mass grave of the Grande Armée at Starogard Gdański (Preußisch Stargard)

In the military cemetery of Tczewska Street rest the soldiers of the Grande Armée from the Prussian campaign (1807) and the retreat from Russia (1812-1813). Created in 1807 by Napoleonic troops, the cemetery subsequently received other soldiers from the Austro-Prussian War (1866), the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871), the First World War, the Polish-Bolshevik War (1920) and the Second World War. In a separate plot rest 844 Soviet soldiers who fell during the liberation of the town in 1945.

Of the Grande Armée, there remains a monument in the form of a pyramid. It bears no inscription, however. The cemetery was enclosed in 1950 and renovated in 1979. A few notable figures of the town were buried there. There are also some old Protestant graves.

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