Krzeszyce (Swietojansko) Jewish Cemetery
Cemetery Information
Country
Poland
Region
Lubusz Voivodeship
District
Sulęcin
Settlement
Świętojańsko
Site address
Next to road 22, Świętojańsko Street, 300 meters East from the protestant cemetery in Krzeszyce, 1 km East from 46, Skwierzyńska Street, Krzeszyce, on the northern side of the road.
GPS coordinates
52.580865, 15.041705
Perimeter length
247 meters
Is the cemetery demolished
no
Type and height of existing fence
No fence.
Preservation condition
Unfenced Jewish cemetery
General site condition
The cemetery is quite neglected and overgrown by the forest.
Number of existing gravestones
15 tombstones and more 10 fragments.
Date of oldest tombstone
1874
Date of newest tombstone
1899
Urgency of erecting a fence
High
Land ownership
Forestry
Preserved construction on site
No
Drone surveys
No
Historical overview
The Progressive/Reform Jewish cemetery was established at the beginning 19th century. The Krzeszyce community, about 5 km away, also used this unlandmarked cemetery. The isolated rural wooded flat land has no sign or marker. Reached by turning directly off a public road, access is open to all with a broken masonry wall without gate. The pre-and post-WWII cemetery size is 0.11 ha. 1 to 20 stones are visible with less than 25% broken or toppled. The oldest stones in the cemetery are from 1881 and 1866. The 19th century sandstone markers are flat shaped stones or finely smoothed and inscribed stones with Hebrew and/or German inscriptions. The Forest District Administration of Osno Lubuskie [Nadlesnictwo Osno Lubuskie] owns the property used only for abandoned Jewish cemetery. Adjacent property is forest. Rarely, local residents stop. It was vandalized during World War.
