Attractions and Places To See around gmina Brzeg Dolny - Top 20

The abbey grounds are accessible, allowing you to explore every nook and cranny. The abbey itself can also be explored inside. I highly recommend it 😀👍

A Brief History of the Cistercian Abbey in Lubiąż The Cistercian Abbey in Lubiąż is one of the largest and most important monastic complexes in Central Europe. The beginnings of monastic settlement in Lubiąż date back to the 11th century, when the Benedictines probably had their establishment here. However, the real flourishing of the monastery began with the arrival of the Cistercians in 1163 from Pforta in Thuringia. They were brought by Duke Bolesław the Tall, who gave them lands in Lubiąż. The Cistercians, known for their diligence and management skills, quickly developed the monastery estates, establishing farms, fish ponds and mills. The abbey became an important economic, cultural and religious centre in Silesia. During the Middle Ages, Lubiąż was one of the richest and most influential Cistercian monasteries in Europe. Its abbots played a significant role in the political and ecclesiastical life of the region. Valuable manuscripts were created here, craftsmanship developed, and the monastery library gathered rich collections. The period of the Hussite Wars in the 15th century brought considerable destruction and the decline of the abbey. The monastery was burned down and plundered, and the number of monks decreased significantly. A revival took place in the second half of the 15th century and lasted through the 16th century, but on a smaller scale than during the period of glory. The real revival and Baroque reconstruction of the abbey took place in the 17th and 18th centuries. Monumental buildings were built at that time, such as an impressive church, library, refectory and abbots' palace. With the secularization of the monastic property in Prussia in 1810, the Lubiąż Abbey was dissolved. The monastery property was taken over by the Prussian state, and the buildings served various functions - from a psychiatric hospital, through warehouses, to barracks. Many valuable works of art and books were dispersed or destroyed. After World War II, Lubiąż found itself within the borders of Poland. The condition of the buildings was dramatic – the monastery was neglected, devastated and gradually fell into ruin. It was only in recent decades that intensive conservation and revitalization work was undertaken. Since 1989, the management of the abbey was taken over by the Lubiąż Foundation, which, together with the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and EU funds, is conducting extensive renovation work. Thanks to this, it is gradually regaining its former glory and is being made available to visitors. Currently, the Cistercian abbey in Lubiąż is one of the greatest tourist attractions in Lower Silesia and a testament to the rich history of the region.

A Brief History of the Cistercian Abbey in Lubiąż The Cistercian Abbey in Lubiąż is one of the largest and most important monastic complexes in Central Europe. The beginnings of monastic settlement in Lubiąż date back to the 11th century, when the Benedictines probably had their establishment here. However, the real development of the monastery began with the arrival of the Cistercians in 1163 from Pforta in Thuringia. They were brought by Duke Bolesław the Tall, who gave them lands in Lubiąż. The Cistercians, known for their diligence and management skills, quickly developed the monastery estates, establishing farms, fish ponds and mills. The abbey became an important economic, cultural and religious centre in Silesia. During the Middle Ages, Lubiąż was one of the richest and most influential Cistercian monasteries in Europe. Its abbots played a significant role in the political and ecclesiastical life of the region. Valuable manuscripts were created here, craftsmanship developed, and the monastery library gathered rich collections. The period of the Hussite Wars in the 15th century brought significant destruction and decline to the abbey. The monastery was burned and plundered, and the number of monks decreased significantly. Rebirth occurred in the second half of the 15th century and lasted through the 16th century, but on a smaller scale than during the period of glory. The real rebirth and Baroque reconstruction of the abbey took place in the 17th and 18th centuries. Monumental buildings were built at that time, such as an impressive church, library, refectory and abbots' palace. With the secularization of the monastic property in Prussia in 1810, the Lubiąż Abbey was dissolved. The monastery property was taken over by the Prussian state, and the buildings served various functions - from a psychiatric hospital, through warehouses, to barracks. Many valuable works of art and books were dispersed or destroyed. After World War II, Lubiąż found itself within the borders of Poland. The condition of the buildings was dramatic – the monastery was neglected, devastated and gradually fell into ruin. Only in recent decades have intensive conservation and revitalization works been undertaken. Since 1989, the management of the abbey has been taken over by the Lubiąż Foundation, which, together with the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and EU funds, is conducting extensive renovation works. Thanks to this, it is gradually regaining its former glory and is being made available to visitors. Currently, the Cistercian abbey in Lubiąż is one of the greatest tourist attractions in Lower Silesia and a testimony to the rich history of the region.

The palace in Wielka Lipa is an elegant residence located in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship, near Oborniki Śląskie. It was built in the 18th century and for a long time belonged to the aristocratic von Waldenburg-Würben family. The building is distinguished by its classicist architecture and is surrounded by a beautiful landscape park, ideal for a walk or a rest during a bicycle trip around the area. Currently, the palace is restored and used as a private residence, so its interiors are not available to visitors. However, it is worth seeing it from the outside and feeling the atmosphere of the former aristocratic estate of Lower Silesia.

Auxiliary Church of the Sacred Heart of the Lord Jesus The church was built as an Evangelical church in the years 1864-1867, restored in 1962. Single-nave with a transept, chancel in the form of a pentagonal apse and a square four-storey tower, octagonal storey. Brick, lined with red facing with horizontal light stripes, on a stone plinth, buttressed. The gables of the nave above the chancel and transept are stepped with an attic and blind arcades. The roof of the nave and transept is gabled, the chancel is five-sloped, the tower is conical, covered with sheet metal. Crowning frieze, pointed arch openings. Neo-Gothic brick portals in the entrances. In the southern entrance in the transept above the door there is a bas-relief of Christ Teaching. On the third floor of the tower there is a clock, the fourth is topped with sharp gables separated by square pillars protruding above the roof. Interior furnishings from the 19th and 20th centuries. In front of the church there is a chapel with a figure of the Sacred Heart of the Lord Jesus in a display case placed on a pedestal of a monument to the villagers who died in World War I. A laurel wreath is engraved on the granite pedestal. Source: https://polska-org.pl/547860,Szczepanow,Kosciol_Najswietszego_Serca_Pana_Jezusa.html

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Palace from the 17th century, rebuilt at the beginning of the 20th century. The first mentions of the palace come from the mid-seventeenth century. During the Thirty Years' War, the palace and the manor farm were destroyed. Only in the second half of the 18th century, when Miękinia became the property of the von Hoyms and Maltzans, the manor and farm buildings were rebuilt. The current shape of the building comes from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, and its architecture does not indicate that it served representative functions. It was rather the seat of the farm manager, a fairly spacious country manor house surrounded by farm buildings. The building was built on the plan of an elongated rectangle, two-storey with a triangular tympanum above the entrance. The body of the palace closes the perspective of ul. Kosciuszko. In 1977, the user of the palace, the Agricultural Plant in Miękinia, carried out a current renovation of the building. Currently, the palace, which is privately owned, is falling into ruin.

One of the oldest churches preserved in Lower Silesia - mentioned in 1233, it was built in the second half of the 13th century. In the years 1378-1388, the builder Szymon erected a new presbytery covered with a vault by master Klaus Parler. In 1623, the roof and vaults of the church were destroyed, which were restored in 1645. In 1670, a thorough reconstruction of the church took place, and the western part was added around 1830. Currently, it is an oriented building, made of brick, built on a rectangular plan, with a separated presbytery ending polygonally. The three-bay presbytery is covered with a net vault, and the three-nave six-bay body with a basilica layout has a barrel vault in the main nave and cross vaults in the side naves. Its external walls are a remnant of a late Romanesque building from the turn of the 12th and 13th centuries. It was a three-nave brick basilica, closed from the east by three apses, covered with a wooden ceiling. In the main altar (around 1718) there is a painting by J.W. Neunhertz "The Last Supper". Sculptures of St. Andrew and St. Hedwig. Baroque side altars of the Holy Family and St. Anne, a pulpit from 1677, a classicist baptismal font from 1845, two Gothic sculptures of the Madonna with Child from the 14th and 15th centuries and St. Hedwig from the 15th century. Gothic Renaissance stonework details (portal from 1579). Next to the church is a Gothic bell tower from the mid-14th century, originally a tower of the city gate. Next to the bell tower is a baroque figure of St. John of Nepomuk (1728).