Reszel Jewish Cemetery
Cemetery Information
Country
Poland
Region
Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship
District
Kętrzyn
Settlement
Reszel
Site address
Adjacent to Kościuszki street, 12. Reszel. Residential house on Kościuszki, 12 adjoins the north-western part of the cemetery area. North-east part of the cadastral parcel no. 280805_4.0002.122/1
GPS coordinates
54.053208, 21.150067
Perimeter length
224 metres
Is the cemetery demolished
no
Type and height of existing fence
No fenced.
Preservation condition
Unfenced Jewish cemetery
General site condition
Jewish cemetery of Reszel is a wooded area, situated on a high declivity by the Sajna River. The cemetery is unfenced and almost destroyed. The area is very overgrown and littered. Part of the territory is occupied by a district heating pipeline, which makes access to the cemetery little difficult. A few tombstones have preserved.
Number of existing gravestones
Two tomb frames and concrete tomb pedestal.
Date of oldest tombstone
N/A
Date of newest tombstone
N/A
Urgency of erecting a fence
High
Land ownership
Municipality
Preserved construction on site
No
Drone surveys
Yes
Historical overview
The cemetery was established in the suburbs near the machine factory (now Kościuszko Street). It survived the war years, but in 1987 it was almost devoid of any traces of burials. Aloys Sommerfeld writes about three or four tombstones that have survived, while Przemysław Burchard mentions three tombstones in 1990 – the oldest one from 1854.
(“Żydowskie domy modlitwy oraz cmentarze na Warmii i Mazurach – stan obecny” book by Seweryn Szczepański, 2017; doi.org/10.26774/rzz.165)
