The cemetery was founded on the initiative of Stanisław Kostka, Aleksander Stanisław Potocki and Aleksandra of Lubomirski Potocka in 1816. Initially, it was on the set of a circle with a neo-Gothic chapel-mausoleum in the middle, which was erected between 1823–1826 according to the design of Chrystian Piotr Aigner. There are graves of Stanisław Kostka and Ignacy Potocki in it.
The cemetery was repeatedly expanded. It was first expanded for the first time around 1860 when arms were added to the circular cemetery, giving it the shape of a Greek cross. Again, the cemetery area was enlarged between 1877–1888. It was last extended at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Around 1860 the cemetery was fenced with ceramic shapes according to the design of Henryk Marconi.
In 1947 Gerard Ciołek developed a plan for the regulation and enlargement of the cemetery, which grew chaotically during the war. The project was not implemented and the cemetery, with the passage of time increased, did not gain on the order.[3]
The insurgents of 1863 were buried in the cemetery, soldiers died in September 1939 and Warsaw insurgents from 1944. Among the mass graves from the World War II period are: 10 graves covering the bodies of 73 soldiers of the 360 Infantry Regiment, 32 graves covering 171 insurgents of Warsaw Baszta regiments (Oaza battalion) and Waligóra (Grochów platoon and the Jeleń squadron) and graves of several civilian executions carried out by Germans in Wilanów.[4]
