At the intersection of Armii Krajowej and Kolejowa streets lies a former military cemetery, closed down in the era of the Polish People's Republic and today a "youth park". In 1945, it contained about 1,200 graves. It had been enlarged in 1839, thanks to the efforts of the commander of the fortress of Świdnica, Major General Fryderyk Zimmermann, who is himself buried in this cemetery. This expansion subsequently allowed it to receive 7 Danish prisoners of war from the war of Prussia and Austria against Denmark in 1864, then numerous French prisoners of war from the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71. These graves, however, were levelled before 1945. Graves of 82 prisoners of the Tsarist Russian army, including 9 French, 5 Italians, 3 Romanians and 3 Serbs, dated from the First World War. During the Second World War, prisoners of war were again buried there. Among others, a Belgian prisoner, Antoine Joskin, who died on 21 January 1942, and a French prisoner, François-Marie Mignon, who died accidentally on 19 August 1942.
There remains today a monument from 1868, in memory of the Prussian and Austrian soldiers who died as a result of the war of 1866. On it one can read the names of the deceased soldiers (who died mainly in the hospital of Świdnica, from their wounds, from cholera or from typhus), with the inscription "Prussian soldiers" at the top of the monument. Since the end of 2006, the memory of the prisoners of war has been honoured by a plaque, placed on the monument. On it one can read, in Polish: "This plaque is dedicated to the memory of the wars of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Soldiers and civilians of English, Austrian, Belgian, Danish, French, German, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Serbian and Italian nationalities, whose names are unknown today, buried in the cemetery between 1768 and 1945. The inhabitants of Świdnica."