In the Christian culture, a cemetery is a special place, a memory place of those who died, a place
symbolically marked with specific forms of small architecture, sculpture, engraved in the stone of an often poetical informative‑documentary
transcription. It is a unique place, protected with a centuries‑old
tradition and common respect, but also law agreements. The landscape of Polish cities involves
historical necropolis of other beliefs or ethnic minorities. The centuries‑old
tradition of Polish tolerance
facilitated the creation of a special cultural symbiosis based on the co‑existence
of ethnic
minorities or ethnic groups in the space of the Polish cities. They left precious monuments of the
material and sacred culture.
The process of social and cultural spacious changes in the contemporary Polish cities also concerns
the small cemetery architecture. On the one hand, one can observe its enrichment, and, on the
other hand, destruction, especially in old, less‑known
cemetery spaces. Many monuments, including
cemeteries, have not survive up till now. The very article is documentary in nature and presents the
author’s observations on the cemeteries of German and Jewish people within the period of a few
last years, their history and the current state, situated in the landscape of Polish cities. The studies
covered some of the places in the Silesian, Lower‑Silesian,
Małopolska, Świętokrzyskie, Lubuskie and
Zachodniopomorskie voivodship
