Rituals connected with burial of the dead since the beginning of time have been essential characteristics of individual cultures. The Lednicki Landscape Park located 30 km east of the city of Poznań is an area where one may follow burial traditions from prehistoric times to the present. In this area we may find burnt burials, Mediaeval cemeteries, characteristically formed and decorated with vegetation, presently unused evangelical cemeteries from the turn of the 19^th and the 20^th century, and operating Catholic cemeteries with valuable old tree stands. Tree stands of the historic necropolis in the unforested, agricultural landscape of the Park are significant dominant features and important elements of the culture landscape. Studies conducted in the years 2000–2004 in the Lednicki Landscape Park on the preservation of the cemetery planting arrangements confirmed progressing degradation of these planting arrangements starting from 1945 until the present. Losses in the tree stands of still used Catholic cemeteries, occurring in the last 15 years, are striking. The degradation of cemetery planting arrangements has not been stopped by these areas being protected. Precious values of the culture landscape of the Park are being irrevocably lost.

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