The General Władysław Anders Square (Polish: Plac gen. Władysława Andersa), also known as the General Władysław Anders Park (Polish: Park gen. Władysława Andersa), is a garden square in Szczecin, Poland, in the neighbourhood of Centrum, within the Downtown district.
The area was originally founded in 1846 as a military cemetery, which was eventually closed for burials in the 1900s, and torn down and turned in a garden square in 1945.
In 1877, Friedrich Graf von Wrangel (1784–1877), a general field marshal of the Prussian Army, became the most notable person to be buried at the cemetery.
In 1906, the southern portion of the cemetery was removed, to make room for the construction of the Church of the Holiest Heart of Our Lord, which lasted from 1913 to 1919.
[1] It became known as the Ledóchowski Street Square (Polish: Plac przy Ledóchowskiego), which in turn was named after Mieczysław Halka-Ledóchowski, a 19th-century Catholic cleric who was an archbishop of Gdniezno and Poznań, and the primate of Poland.
Near the church is placed a memorial dedicated to the soldiers of the French Army, who died between 1870 and 1871, in the local prisoner-of-war camp during the Franco-Prussian War.
[6][7] Additionally, there is also a sculpture made from an artificial stone by Leonia Chmielnik, titled Children (Polish: Dzieci), that depicts boy and girl turned to each other's backs.