[1] The cemetery is located in the northern part of Bydgoszcz, between the following streets: Artyleryjska, Zaświat, Powstańców Warszawy, and Skromna.

To the east, it is adjacent to the military and municipal cemetery, where stand a monument and tombstones of Red Army fallen soldiers, as well as graves of state activists from the PRL.

It intended to be a substitute for the initial downtown cemetery, then called "Starofarny" (English: Pld parish) which had reached its full capacity.

[5] During the Greater Poland uprising (1918–1919), the house of the cemetery inspector Andrzej Sikorski was a meeting place for the Bydgoszcz Polish community and a collection point for weapons for the insurgents.

[7] Furthermore, a commemorative plaque was unveiled at the same time as the statue to[8] Cześć i hołd poległym i zmarłym żołnierzom Polski w dziesiątą rocznicę Cudu Wisły.

Valuable works of art and books were stored in old tombs, which were returned to museum collections and private hands after the conflict.

In particular, the place hid Major Józef Gruss [pl] (aka "Stanisław"), the head of intelligence of the Pomeranian District of the Home Army, till his arrest in May 1944.

It houses the burials of deceased party activists and officials of the state administration of Polish People's Republic in Bydgoszcz.

On December 1, 1979, the Parish of the Holy Cross in Bydgoszcz was created: following dragging troubles to consent on the location of the new church, it was decided to rebuild the cemetery chapel between 1982 and 1986.

[10] The project led by Father Prelate Eugeniusz Barełkowski was carried out following the design of Bydgoszcz engineers Jerzy Tomaszewski (main building) and Zbigniew Lewiński (towers).

[8] The section lies in the eastern part of the cemetery, originally on the civilian municipal area, from which it is separated by a strip of greenery.

In the centre of the plot stands an obelisk in honor of the fallen ones, along with a commemorative plaque with inscriptions in Polish and Russian, mentioning [8] Eternal Glory to the Heroes of the Red Army, who died in the fight for the liberation of our city.