The decision to create a central cemetery in Szczecin was made in 1899. It was dictated by the overcrowding of numerous municipal burial places in the city, which were liquidated with the commencement of construction of one municipal necropolis. The design of the cemetery was made by Wilhelm Meyer-Schwartau and Georg Hanning. The architects' assumption was to create a cemetery in the form of a park, therefore a large part of the area consists of lawns, rows of trees and water reservoirs.
In the years 1900 - 1905 a cemetery chapel was built. Its location - on the east-west line, and its architecture refer to the Christian tradition and the ancient symbolism of the setting sun in the cult of the dead. Built on a cross plan in the neo-Romanesque style, with a dome, it was supposed to imitate the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. The interior of the chapel was originally decorated with rich polychrome with floral motifs. In the 1920s, a crematorium was built next to the chapel.
After the Second World War, the chapel was not used. It was not rebuilt until 1981. During the renovation, however, a fire damaged the dome. After the reconstruction was completed, the original interior of the chapel, which has been used again since 1994, has not been fully restored. The crematorium has been reopened since 2005.