Monuments

The necropolis in the shape of L letter was located on the western side of the fortress along the road leading to Zakroczym. This cemetery was founded by the German army in connection with the fightsat the fortress in 1915. The loss of the siege army must have been really huge because in 1916 there was a monument built to honour the killed German soldiers.
The oldest graves of Polish soldiers are the graves of Polish legionaires who were killed in the Modlin hospitalin in the years 1917-1918.
In the background of the cemetery there is a symbolic mausoleum. It is located in the place of the original burial place of the first commander of the Modlin Fortress in independent Poland - colonel Edward Malewicz.
A large group of Polish soldiers was also buried during the Polish-Bolshevic war in August 1920.
The fights in September 1939 brought great loss of defenders. Summing up, there were 2 thousand Polish soldiers who lost their lives as a result of wounds or during group execution. On the Modlin cemetery there are 119 graves of unknown soldiers who were killed while defendings the Modlin Fortress.
In 1962 the cemetery was closed down and in the late eighties of the 20th cenury on the initiative of the Polish-German Foundation called "Pamięć" a part of the cemetery was renovated . It was then that the monument of Polish soldiers who were killed in the years 1920-1939 was built to commemorate them.