Debrzno-Wies Jewish Cemetery
Cemetery Information
Country
Poland
Region
Greater Poland Voivodeship
District
Złotów
Settlement
Debrzno-Wieś
Site address
The Jewish Cemetery in Debrzno-Wieś is located east of road #188, south of the Debrzynka River. A forest path leads to the cemetery. It starts opposite the sewage treatment plant (on the other side of the road) and runs at the foot of the hill. There is a distance of about 200 meters to go from the road #188 East towards the cemetery. About 100 meters South-East from 8, Młyńska Street.
GPS coordinates
53.533209, 17.234177
Perimeter length
227 metres
Is the cemetery demolished
no
Type and height of existing fence
The fence is a simple, low (approx. 80 cm) wooden fence (one board between the posts). Such a fence does not provide any protection, so I would classify the cemetery as unfenced.
Preservation condition
Unfenced Jewish cemetery
General site condition
A reasonably well-kept cemetery, clean, grubbed up and marked with an information board. The area is symbolically fenced. A dozen or so tombstones and outlines of graves have survived. A magnificent old forest has been preserved.
Number of existing gravestones
26 tombstones in different condition were found. Some of the graves are only visible on the concrete/stone framing.
Date of oldest tombstone
1715 (according to POLIN and cmentarze-zydowskie.pl), 1835
Date of newest tombstone
1926
Urgency of erecting a fence
High
Land ownership
Forestry
Preserved construction on site
No
Drone surveys
Yes
Historical overview
The Jewish cemetery in Debrzno-Wieś was established in the 17th century. Jews from Debrzno and Lipka also used the cemetery. On the area of 0.2 ha, a dozen or so tombstones and outlines of graves have survived; the oldest monument comes from 1715. The matzevot are made of granite and sandstone. They contain tombstone inscriptions in Hebrew and German. Old trees also survived.
On December 16, 1983, the cemetery was entered into the register of monuments by decision No. A-496. In 1994, a cemetery card was established.
In June 2010, there was devastation. Unknown perpetrators overturned practically all the matzevot, breaking some of them.
As mentioned, a dozen or so matzevot have been preserved to this day (probably shifted from their original locations) and the outline of graves, as well as old trees. The area is marked with an information board and fenced.
(sztetl.org.pl)
