Siemczyno Jewish Cemetery

The Jewish cemetery in Siemczyno was established in the northern part of the village, on a dirt road leading to Piaseczno, continuing through Rzepowo to Warniłęg.
This cemetery was used not only by the Jewish community from Siemczyno, but also by Jews living in Warniłęg, and later also by the inhabitants of Złocieniec, some ten kilometers away. The cemetery was about 0.5 ha. It was surrounded by a stone wall, and its area was covered with grass and trees. After the commune in Siemczyno ceased to exist and the commune in Złocieniec established its own cemetery, the necropolis in Siemczyno was no longer used. It can be supposed that this took place around 1815.
For unknown reasons, the tombstones in this cemetery were moved to the Czaplinek cemetery in 1929 and 1930, as evidenced by matzevot found in Czaplinek.
At the end of the 1920s, residential houses were built on the site of the cemetery in Siemczyno. Two of these belonged to the Berliner Scheibe. With time, the cemetery plot was sold. The meadow located here is called “Żydowska Górka” (German: “Judenberg”).
Kamil Połeć, a regional activist from Czaplinek, informed us that a fragment of a matzevah was recently been found in Siemczyno. The stone was discovered near the church, on the site of a non-existent multi-family house for estate workers. The location of the cemetery and the place where the fragment of the matzevah was found are marked on the map of Siemczyno.
(sztetl.org.pl)

The Jewish cemetery in Siemczyno was established to the north of the village, on the road to Warniłęg, probably in the 18th century. It occupied an area of ​​approximately 0.5 ha, was surrounded by a stone wall and planted with trees. At the Siemczyń cemetery, Jews from the nearby Warniłęg and Czaplinek, where the Jewish cemetery was established only at the beginning of the 19th century, were buried next to the inhabitants of that village. In the 1770s, Siemczyno was inhabited by almost 100 Jews, creating an exceptionally large community established in the countryside, not in the city. Later, due to the regulation of King Frederick II, forbidding Jews who dealt in trade from living in villages, the number of Jewish inhabitants of Siemczyno quickly decreased. A hundred years later, only five Jews lived here. However, the cemetery was closed much earlier, probably at the time when the cemetery in Czaplinek was established, i.e. around 1820. At the end of the 1920s, the tombstones from the Siemczyno necropolis were moved to Czaplinek, and new homesteads were built there.
(West Pomeranian Encyclopedia; http://encyklopedia.szczecin.pl)

The 1943 plan of Siemczyno (Heinrichsdorf) with marked Jewish cemetery and place where the single matzevah was found. The demolished Protestant cemetery is marked there, opposite the Jewish cemetery.