The Police Lapidarium is located in the center of the Staromiejski Park, in the southern part of the Old Town. In the vicinity of the lapidarium in the park, there is a church on the other side of the street. Public buses no. 101, 102, 103, 109, 110 and 111 stop nearby. Paved park alleys with benches lead to the lapidarium. Nearby, on the edge of the park, there is a fenced playground for children. The main entrance to the park is at Mazurska Street.
The Police Lapidarium, one of the most beautiful in Poland, is a place for storing and presenting tombstones from former German cemeteries located in the area of today's Police commune. The memorial site has been prepared on a small hill in the Staromiejski Park, in the area of the former cemetery, part of which has survived to modern times and is located right next to the road, at Masurska Street. At the beginning of the 1960s, burials were suspended, but the graves of the deceased can still be visited here.
The Police Lapidarium was established in 1998 on the initiative of local authorities and a well-known police historian in this area - Jan Matura. The opening ceremony was attended by representatives of the German side, in addition to the local government authorities of the commune. There are about 125 tombstones here, such as: steles, i.e. tombstones with visible and well-preserved inscriptions, stylized trunks. Fragments of some post-German tombstones were brought there from over twenty cemeteries located in the Police Land. In the center of the lapidarium there is a boulder weighing about 30 tons, which was placed in 1934, still on the existing cemetery here, to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the march of Police troops to the front of World War I. Today, a small plaque with the words "LAPIDARIUM POLICKIE" is placed on the boulder. The sepulchral elements gathered here were surrounded by low, decorative pillars connected by a chain. This place is clearly visible in the evening and at night, because the lamps installed here illuminate the entire exhibition. At the entrance, on the right side, there is a sculpture of a woman with a bowed head and a wreath in her right hand. The character is based on a disc with the inscription - DAHEIM meaning "at home". The establishment of the Police Lapidarium made it possible to keep the memory of the former German inhabitants of the Police Land. Fragments of German monuments were collected from the destroyed evangelical cemeteries and some German citizens of Police and the surrounding towns were saved from oblivion. After World War II, the devastated and plundered cemeteries fell into complete ruin. Since 2012, thanks to the local authorities, the memory of the former German necropolises has been restored, they have been gradually marked with large wooden crosses and provided with an appropriate description in Polish and German.
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