Sulejów Abbey [SEP] religious order
Sulejów Abbey
Sulejów Abbey () was a Cistercian abbey founded in 1176 by the duke Kazimierz II the Just. The town of Sulejów grew up round it. The most notable parts of the abbey are:
- the Romanesque church of Saint Thomas Becket of Canterbury
- the Romanesque fortifications which stopped the Mongol Hordes in the 13th century.
The monastery was dissolved in 1810. After many years of industrial and business use the surviving buildings are now used by the present parish.
The abbey is one of Poland
inter alia following abbacies were dissolved: Sulejów Abbey, Wąchock Abbey, Święty Krzyż Basilica, the Norbertine monasteries in Witów and Hebdów, the Order of the Holy Sepulchre monastery of Miechów and the Camaldolese monastery in Szaniec. On August 16, 1822 the Namiestnik of Poland followed a decree to seize all material property from the dissolved properties to a common religious fund.