The necropolis in Bronowice Wielkie was established in 1909 and is older than the local parish. It occupies an area of 2.47 hectares between Pasternik and Na Polach Streets, in the vicinity of Mt Wróżna, on the border of the former villages of Bronowice Wielkie and Bronowice Małe, and was originally a burial place for the inhabitants of both villages. The cemetery belonged to the Stigmata of St. Francis of Assisi parish in Bronowice Wielkie, but residents of Bronowice Małe belonging to St Mary's parish were also buried there. In the 1930s, its area was extended to the present first asphalt avenue parallel to Pasternik Street. After the Second World War, the cemetery was transformed from a parish cemetery to a municipal cemetery, and the Kraków Municipal Cemeteries Board took it over. Intimate and conveniently located, it was gradually expanded in the 1950s and 1970s. In the 1970s, it became a burial place for residents of the surrounding Bronowice housing estates. More than 8,000 dead are buried there, including many distinguished Bronowice residents, representatives of local families, war veterans and people associated with the Young Poland period, among them the protagonists of Stanisław Wyspiański's' The Wedding'.

Opposite the main gate, you can see the magnificent tomb of the Tetmajer family, where the poet, painter, and politician Włodzimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer, who died in 1923 and was portrayed in Wyspiański's' The Wedding' as the Host, is buried. In addition, his wife Anna, née Mikołajczyk, who was the Hostess in ’The Wedding', and their son, lancer cadet Jan Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer, killed in 1920 in Volhynia, are also buried here. Nearby is the Rydl family tomb with the resting place of poet, novelist and playwright Lucjan Rydel, who died in 1918, his wife Jadwiga Rydlowa, née Mikołajczyk, sister Helena Lange, née Rydel, and brothers Stanisław and Adam. On the other hand, Jakub Mikołajczyk, the prototype of Kuba from The Wedding’ mentioned above, was buried in the Mikołajczyk grave.

It is also the burial place of famous Kraków scientists: the Iranian scientist Franciszek Machalski, the ethnographer Jan Stanisław Bujak, the archaeologist Grzegorz Leńczyk, Professor Stanisław Dżułyński, as well as Danuta Nabel-Bochenek and the stage designer Kazimierz Łaskawski, authors of the monument to the men who stood on the moon. Poland's national hockey player Bogdan Migacz was laid to rest here in 1998. Old peasant Bronowice families, for example, also have their resting place in the cemetery: Koniks, Jaroszs, Kozenackis, and Morawiecs. It is also possible to find the graves of soldiers of the National Armed Forces, the Polish Army, the Legions and the Home Army, as well as participants in national uprisings.