List of historical monasteries in Greater Poland and Kuyavia

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Mogilno Benedictine Abbey

This list contains monasteries in the historical regions of Greater Poland and Kujawy that were established up until the 18th century.

area

Greater Poland was the area of ​​the early Polish state around the cities of Poznań , Gniezno (Gnesen) and Kalisz (Kalisch). Kujawien was a smaller east adjoining territory around Kruszwica , Inowrocław and Bydgoszcz (Bromberg).

The area lies in the greater part of today's Greater Poland Voivodeship , the southern part of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship and a small part of the Lubusz Voivodeship .

history

In the 11th century at the latest, the first Benedictine convents were established in Piast castle settlements in Greater Poland ( Mogilno , Lubin). Cistercian ( Wągrowiec , Łekno) and Premonstratensian ( Strzelno ) monasteries followed in the 12th and 13th centuries . There were also branches of the Dominicans and Franciscans and other orders.

Almost all the monasteries remained in the 16th century. New branches of the Jesuits and other congregations followed, which were supposed to promote the Counter Reformation in the area.

In 1795 the area came after the | Second partition of Poland to the Kingdom of Prussia in the province of Posen . From 1807 to 1815 it belonged to the Polish Duchy of Warsaw , from 1815 mostly back to Prussia, Kujawien with Kalisz to the Russian Empire . The Prussian monasteries were almost all dissolved in the 1820s and 1830s, the Russian mostly in 1864 after the January uprising .

After the independence of Poland in 1919, several new branches were opened, and numerous others after 1945 and 1990.

Greater Poland (selection)

Benedictine

Dominican

  • Dominican Monastery Poznań (Poznan)
  • Dominican monastery Środa (Schroda)

Dominicans

  • Dominican Convent Poznań (Poznan)

Franciscan

  • Franciscan Monastery Gniezno (Gnesen)
  • Franciscan monastery Kalisz (Kalisch)
  • Franciscan monastery Oborniki
  • Pyzdry Franciscan Monastery
  • Franciscan monastery Śrem (Schrimm)
  • Franciscan Monastery Poznań (Poznan)

Saint Bernard (Franciscan Observant)

  • Franciscan monastery Koło

Reformates

Camaldolese

  • Camaldolese monastery of Bieniszew

Filipinos

  • Philippine Monastery Gostyń (Gostyn)
  • Philippine Monastery Poznań (Poznan)

Salesians

  • Salesian Monastery Poznań (Poznan)

Cistercians

Cistercian women

Kuyavia (selection)

Bydgoszcz Carmelite Monastery 1802

Collegiate pens

  • Collegiate monastery St. Peter and Paul Kruszwica

Dominican

  • Brześć Kujawski Dominican Monastery

Franciscan

  • Inowrocław Franciscan Monastery
  • Nieszawa Monastery
  • Radziejów Monastery

St. Bernard

  • Skępe Monastery

Reformates

  • Bydgoszcz Reformate Monastery (Bromberg)

Jesuit

  • Jesuit residence Bydgoszcz (Bromberg)

Carmelites

  • Bydgoszcz Carmelite Monastery
  • Carmelite Monastery of Obory
  • Carmelite Monastery of Trutowo
  • Zakrzewo Carmelite Monastery

Poor Clares

  • Poor Clare Monastery Bydgoszcz (Bromberg)

Premonstratensian women

Cistercians

literature

  • Piotr Maluśkiewicz (i dr.) :: Zabytkowe klasztory w Wielkopolsce . Poznań 2006

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