Cmentarz na Zaspie

Honorary graves in Zaspa

Grave of the murdered defenders of the Polish Post Office

Memorial to the victims of Simonsdorf

The Cmentarz na Zaspie - Cmentarz Ofiar Hitleryzmu (German Cemetery Zaspa, for victims of the Hitler regime ) is a cemetery of honor in the Zaspa ( Saspe ) district of the city of Gdańsk ( Danzig ) in Poland .

history

The cemetery was laid out in 1895 as a poor cemetery for the Gdańsk hospital church. Most of the poor, suicides and prison inmates were buried here at the city's expense. From 1914 it also served as a cemetery for cremated people. During the First World War , prisoners of war were buried, some of which were exhumed in the 1920s and buried in war cemeteries.

Second World War

From the beginning of September 1939 to September 1942, the cemetery served as a grave for the prisoners who died in the Stutthof concentration camp . The dead from the Troyl and Kokoschken subcamps, who died of exhaustion during forced labor, were also buried here. Historians estimate the number of those buried in Zaspa at up to 14,000 dead.

Follow-up time

After 1945 the cemetery became a place of remembrance. Prominent victims who were buried near Stutthof had been exhumed and, after identification, buried in individual graves. Since 1951 it has been transformed into a cemetery of honor. It was closed for burials in 1956.

investment

The cemetery has a size of 3.3 hectares and the shape of an irregular square. The area belongs to the Gdańsk districts of Wrzeszcz Dolny ( Langfuhr ) and Zaspa-Rozstaje ( Saspe-Eckhof ) at 88 ul.Bolesława Chrobrego.

Community graves

• Defender of the Polish Post Office in 1939
• Memorial to the victims of Simonsdorf in 1939

Celebrities buried

Grave monument for Feliks Bolt

• Feliks Bolt, priest and politician, perished in 1940
• Marian Górecki , priest, shot in 1940, beatification in 1999
• Konrad Guderski , commandant and defender of the Polish Post
• Jan Klimek , postal worker, shot dead in 1939
• Bronisław Komorowski , priest, shot in 1940, beatification in 1999
• Anton Lendzion , member of the Danzig People's Day , shot in 1940
• Stefan Mirau, a doctor, died of typhus in the Stutthof concentration camp in 1942
• Roman Ogryczak, badly mistreated during internment, † September 30, 1939
• Franciszek Rogaczewski , priest, shot in 1940, beatification in 1999
• Władysław Szymanski , priest, shot in 1940
• Bernhard von Wiecki , priest, shot dead in 1940.

See also

• Places of remembrance in Gdansk (cemeteries)

Web links

Commons : Zaspa Cemetery  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 54 ° 23 ′ 35.4 ″  N , 18 ° 36 ′ 58.5 ″  E