A former Protestant cemetery from 1720 on Góra Parkowa in Kamienna Góra, converted into a town park after being cleared in the 1950s, with surviving traces of the necropolis.
The Protestant cemetery in Kamienna Góra occupied the north-eastern slope of Góra Parkowa and was established in 1720 next to the Church of Grace dedicated to the Holy Trinity. Today only fragments of the former necropolis survive amid the town's greenery.
The cemetery covered an area of 3.2 hectares, and the last burials took place there as late as the 1940s. In 1957-1959 the site was cleared: the burial chapels were demolished, the gravestones were levelled, and the cemetery was turned into a town park.
Despite the postwar redevelopment of the site, the Engmann family burial chapel survives, along with an obelisk commemorating those who fell in the battles of Trutnov in 1866. There is also a mausoleum dedicated to murdered prisoners and prisoners of war, and a commemorative plaque stands at the entrance from Parkowa Street. Individual gravestones and remains of burial plots also survive among the greenery.
The site of the former cemetery now functions as a town park, publicly accessible green space with surviving traces of the former necropolis. It is therefore neither an active cemetery nor a closed-off area, but a place for walking in which history and the park's function overlap.
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