Old Jewish Cemetery Kołobrzeg - Żydowskie Lapidarium

The Jewish community in Kolberg, founded at the beginning of the 19th century, received land from the city administration for a cemetery in what was then Münderfeld.

Later this area was called Theaterpark (today Park Nadmorski, at the intersection of Zdrojowa and Adam Mickiewicza streets).

The agreement with the magistrate was signed on April 14, 1815. The agreement with the magistrate was signed on April 14, 1815 (previously, Jews from Kolberg buried their dead in cemeteries in neighboring towns, including Gryfice and Świdwin).

In 1847, the religious community concluded an agreement with the city administration regarding the expansion of the cemetery grounds.Nevertheless, by 1885 there were no free burial plots.

The necropolis was closed by order of the police and from then on Jews were buried in the new cemetery on Kösliner Chaussee.

At the beginning of the 1930s, almost all of the gravestones were still in the cemetery, in more or less good condition.

Around 1937, however, the Nazi authorities forced the Jewish community to clear the old cemetery.

The gravestones were not moved at that time, only larger and more valuable gravestones were taken away and placed at the entrance to the new Jewish cemetery.The old cemetery was eventually vandalized and destroyed during the November pogroms of 1938.

In 1995, the cemetery was first raided by illegal precious metal prospectors  In the part of the park they damaged, gravestones with Hebrew inscriptions were unearthed.

On October 24, 2000, a lapidarium with 6 matzevot from both Kołobrzeg necropolises was opened in the old cemetery.