Cmentarz Kule, Częstochowa

Kule Cemetery in Częstochowa is a necropolis located on a small hill north of Częstochowa's city center. Situated near Kule, a suburb, in 1882, after the cemetery was moved from the area of Fabryczna and Ogrodowa Streets. The first burials took place two years later.

Approximately one thousand pre-1939 tombstones have survived to this day, including one hundred from the late 19th century. Among them are two family burial chapels: Among them there are two family burial chapels: Kuczyński, Szaniawski and Nowiński, as well as several dozen antique graves, e.g. of Władysław Biegański.

In the central part of the cemetery there is located the neo-gothic Emmaus Resurrection Church, erected as a cemetery chapel in 1898. In the 60's it was rebuilt.

In the southeastern part of the cemetery there is an Orthodox section, where the tsarist officials and military men are buried. In the interwar period the graves from the liquidated Orthodox cemeteries on St. Roch St. and the cemetery by the church of Saints Cyril and Methodius were transferred here. There is also a war plot of Red Army soldiers and their monument.

Effective July 1, 2019, the management of Kule Cemetery, after years of care by St. Sigismund's Parish in Częstochowa, was directly assumed by the Curia of the Archdiocese of Częstochowa.