Klasztor Benedyktynów w Mogilnie

The Benedictine monastery in Mogilno was founded by Casimir the Restorer in the 11th century. The monks most often came from the Rhineland and Bavaria. The construction of the church and monastery buildings began immediately after the arrival of the monks. The Mogilno Benedictines participated in spreading Christianity in Mazovia and Kujawy.

The old monastery buildings were rebuilt in the late Romanesque style, after their destruction in a conflict between the monks and prince Władysław Laskonogi. The hill, occupied by the Benedictines, was surrounded by a stone wall. In the 15th century, another reconstruction was made, which gave the monastery gothic features. In the following centuries, the political role of the monastery decreased. It was not until the 18th century that the Benedictine community began to flourish again and carried out a baroque reconstruction of the monastery complex,

In 1773 Mogilno came under Prussian rule, and the new authorities took over the monastery property, and in 1816 forbade the admission of novices. In 1833, the monastery was completely closed, and the buildings were given to local Catholics and Protestants. After 1880, the buildings housed a hospital, with the monastery church still serving as a parish. After Mogilno returned to Poland, the monastery housed a school and a shelter again, in 1934 it was renovated, and during WWII, the German Nazis established a transit camp, a prisoner-of-war camp, a prison for Jewish women, and a hospital.

Some walls of the Romanesque church still exist. Here is the apse.