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1242 Anna
the widow of the Piastic Count of Silesia - Henryk II
Pobozny (the Pious) -orders a foundation for the Benedictines
from Czech Opatovice. It includes a part of thewooded Zadrna
Vally for clearing and bringing it into cultivation (May 8).
An abbey comes into being.
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1292
The Piastic Count Bolko I of Swidnica and Jawor delivers the abbey to
the Cistercians from Henryków. A Gothic stone church
is consecrated
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1318? A
miraculous Virgin Mary's picture comes from Italy.
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1426 The
Hussites devastate the Monastery Complex and murder several
dozen monks.
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1454 The
abbot Michael II reconstructs the Monastery Complex.
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1618-48 Thirty
Years' War; the Monastery Complex is robbed and devastated
(1622, 1623); the precious library suffers from fire (1633).
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1622 The
Miraculous virgin Virgin Mary's picture is found under the
sacristy floor where it hade been hidden during the Hussite
invasion.
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1660-96 Abbot
Bernard Rosa - "Krzeazów's golden years": among
other the St: Joseph Confraternity is founded (1669), the
Abbey Church is started to be baroquized; the Way of the
Cross and the Betlejem Complex are built.
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1677 A
great fire in the Monastery Complex.
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1690-96 The
St: Joseph's Church is built for the St Joseph Confraternity.
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1728-34 Abbot
Innocentius Fritsch - the Gothic Abbey Church is replaced with
a big and splendid Baroque temple.
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1735-38 The
Mausoleum of Piastic Counts of Swidnica and Jawor is erected.
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1740-63 The
Three so-called Silesian Wars between Prussia and
Austria; Krzeszów with almost whole Silesia becomes
Prussian.
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1768-87 Abbot
Placidus Mundfering - a new, baroque monastery is
under construction (never finished).
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1810 The
Monastery and its properties become secularizated by the Prussian
state. The monks are expelled; the Abbey Church becomes a
parish one; the village is ruined economically.
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1919 The
Monastery is settled by the German Benedictines from Emaus of
Prague.
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1924 An
abbey is established again.
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1940-45 The
Hitlerite Third Reich authorities transform the monastery into
DP-Camp and a transitory camp for Jews, as well into a
transitory store of evacuated museum pieces.
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1945 Krzeszów
and Silesia again in Poland after a long time.
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1946 The
Polish Benedictine Nuns displaced of Lwów take
possession of the monastery.
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1970 A
few Cistercians from Wachock come. A renovation starts.
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1997 The
pope John Paul II crowns the miraculous Virgin Mary's picture
of Krzeszów (in Legnica, on June 2).
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1998 The
Pope John Paul II grants the title"Basilica Minor" to
the Assumption's Church (August 29).
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