It is close to the Church Assumption of Blessed
Virgin Mary in Oświęcim and is situated on the eastern side of the city
center. It was established in the first half of the nineteenth century.
Plan of the parish cemetery is an irregular quadrilateral - the cemetery
chapel, mortuary, the main avenue and a row of old trees along the
former eastern border. Cemetery chapel is from the interwar period. In
the middle of the cemetery there are about 200 the oldest historic
gravestones such as remnant of the Russocki and Dąbski family crypt and
the obelisk memorizing the Austrian soldiers killed in the Austrian -
Prussian Battle of Oświęcim in 1866. Since 1986 the parish cemetery in
Oswiecim is inscribed in the register of monuments.
