March 8, 2020, Lubiaz, Poland: The stronghold in Lubiaz, located on one of the oldest river crossings through the Odra River, was built in the Early FEU and was considered very old in the 12th century. It was to this town on August 16, 1163, that the first Cistercians came from Pforty on the Saale in Thuringia. Prince Boles³aw I Wysoki brought them to Lubiaz.....At the beginning of the 13th century, he organized his branches: in Mogi³a near Krakow - 1222, in Henrykow - 1227, in Kamieniec Zabkowicki - 1249 and took over the care of the Cistercian monastery in Trzebnica.....The fourteenth cent

March 8, 2020, Lubiaz, Poland: The stronghold in Lubiaz, located on one of the oldest river crossings through the Odra River, was built in the Early FEU and was considered very old in the 12th century. It was to this town on August 16, 1163, that the first Cistercians came from Pforty on the Saale in Thuringia. Prince Boles³aw I Wysoki brought them to Lubiaz.....At the beginning of the 13th century, he organized his branches: in Mogi³a near Krakow - 1222, in Henrykow - 1227, in Kamieniec Zabkowicki - 1249 and took over the care of the Cistercian monastery in Trzebnica.....The fourteenth cent Stock Photo
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March 8, 2020, Lubiaz, Poland: The stronghold in Lubiaz, located on one of the oldest river crossings through the Odra River, was built in the Early FEU and was considered very old in the 12th century. It was to this town on August 16, 1163, that the first Cistercians came from Pforty on the Saale in Thuringia. Prince Boles³aw I Wysoki brought them to Lubiaz.....At the beginning of the 13th century, he organized his branches: in Mogi³a near Krakow - 1222, in Henrykow - 1227, in Kamieniec Zabkowicki - 1249 and took over the care of the Cistercian monastery in Trzebnica.....The fourteenth century was a period of peak economic and cultural prosperity of the medieval abbey, which was then the center of literary and historiosophical production of Silesia. His possessions, thanks to numerous donations and purchases, range from Greater Poland, through Silesia to Lesser Poland.....This systematic development was interrupted in the years 1428 - 1432 by the Hussite wars and initiated a long period of slow decline, lasting until 1492. (Credit Image: © Piotr Twardysko-Wierzbicki/ZUMA Wire)

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