Kcynia New Jewish Cemetery
Cemetery Information
Country
Poland
Region
Kuyavian-Pomeranian
District
Nakło
Settlement
Kcynia
Site address
Opposite to 7, Cmentarna Street, between 7, Cmentarna Street and 21, Poznańska Street.
GPS coordinates
52.990856, 17.4808788
Perimeter length
394 meters
Is the cemetery demolished
yes
Type and height of existing fence
No fence.
Preservation condition
Demolished Jewish cemetery that has not been built over
General site condition
The area is clean, the grass is mowed, there’s a lapidarium.
Number of existing gravestones
12 fragments in Lapidarium
Date of oldest tombstone
1849
Date of newest tombstone
1920
Urgency of erecting a fence
High
Land ownership
Municipality
Preserved construction on site
Lapidarium.
Drone surveys
No
Historical overview
Established by the roadside to Wągrowiec, house was built for the mortuary and caretaker dwelling. People who remember the cemetery before WW II say that it was well maintained. Tombs were enclosed in hand-forged steel płotkami and richly decorated. The Chevra Kadisha took care of burial whose chairman in the early 20th century was Seemann. During WW II, the Nazis ordered the gravestones picked up for the pavement of the cinema "Orzeł" executed by construction workers from folksdojcza Emil Posnanski. Workers were directed to expunge epitaphs, but part of the inscriptions were not destroyed; tombstones inscriptions were placed face down. After liberation, in the 1960s,when the cemetery became a park, machines turned up bones and skulls. In the 1990s, locals began to discuss demolishing the pavement at the cinema and returning the matzevot to the cemetery.
