- Kasaty klasztorów na obszarze dawnej Rzeczypospolitej

Semi-annual report
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Marek Derwich
Institute of History
University of Wrocław
Progress report for the period between
1 November 2014 and 30 April 2015*.
1. Organisation of work
The research project “Cultural heritage of dissolved monasteries on the territory of former Poland
and in Silesia in 18th and 19th centuries: fate, significance, cataloguing” is financed within the
framework of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education’s “National Programme for the
Development of Humanities” for 2012–2016 and carried out under the aegis of the Polish
Historical Society. Its leader is Prof dr hab. Marek Derwich from the Institute of History, University
of Wrocław. At the moment 167 people and 27 institutions are involved in the Project to a lesser
or greater extent. They are supported by the Project Office team: Weronika Wojciech (secretary),
Mgr Katarzyna Romanow (Project assistant), Mgr Paula Zawisza (Project assistant), Mgr Piotr
Piętkowski (database coordinator).
The Project has its own website, http://www.kasaty.pl, featuring more detailed information about
it, including information about rules of collaborating with the Project and financing research
(Project and Contact tabs), current events and research (Home tab) as well as conferences
(Conferences tab) and publications (Publications tab). The Project website also provides direct
links to the Knowledge Portal and the Hereditas Monasteriorum journal.
Successive issues of Hereditas Monasteriorum contain a section entitled Project Chronicle – see HM,
1, 2012, pp. 355-471; HM, 2, 2013, pp. 443-568; HM, 3, 2013, pp. 421-595; HM 4, 2014, pp. 455530; HM, 5, 2014, pp. 431-514 (available online on www.hm.kasaty.pl). It contains Project
progress reports for successive six-month periods, reports on conferences organised under the
Project, reports on the work carried out by the research teams as well as reports on the most
important individual studies (all are also listed in the semi-annual reports).
The semi-annual reports are also available online on the Project website, under the Project tab
(http://www.kasaty.pl/category/sprawozdania/). So far, five reports have been published for the
following periods: 6 March–30 November 2012 (HM, 1, 2012, pp. 369-377), 1 December 2012–30
April 2013 (HM, 2, 2013, pp. 445-453); 1 May–31 October 2013 (HM, 3, 2013, pp. 423-431); 1
November 2013–31 May 2014 (HM, 4, 2014, pp. 457-472) and 1 June–30 October 2014 (HM, 5,
2014, pp. 433-443).
*Research financed under the Ministry of Science and Higher Education’s “National Programme for the Development
of Humanities” for 2012–2016.
2. Knowledge Portal
The IT team, made up of Mgr Patryk Dawidziuk (coordinator), Mgr Szymon Sztajer, Mgr Rafał
Toboła and Mgr Marek Wójcikowski, is continuing its work on the Knowledge Portal, i.e. databases
and related tools, in close collaboration with the Project Office. The Portal is now available on
http://pw.kasaty.pl/.
Records are added to the databases online and offline (by means of automatically exported Excel
forms).
As of 30 April 2015 there are 50,607 completed records (an increase of 2069):
- architecture database: 956 (an increase of 364);
- database of archival materials, documents and manuscripts from former monasteries: 14,927 (an
increase of 100);
- database of official archival materials: 1,620 (an increase of 166);
- bibliography database: 2,087 (an increase of 315);
- printed books database: 20,433 (an increase of 100);
- monasteries database: 1,834 (an increase of 30);
- movables database: 4,667 (an increase of 645);
- music items database: 1,910 (an increase of 47);
- database of gardens and parks: 45 (an increase of 11);
- database of the last monastics: 1,231 (an increase of 186);
- database of architectural drawings and iconography: 663 (an increase of 83);
- database of religious orders and congregations: 234 (an increase of 22);
37,589 records have been entered or imported into the databases and are available online:
- architecture database: 917 (an increase of 403);
- database of archival materials, documents and manuscripts from former monasteries: 13,850 (an
increase of 1,627);
- database of official archival materials: 1,077 (an increase of 586);
- bibliography database: 2,000 (an increase of 954);
- printed books database: 10,664 (an increase of 2,757);
- monasteries database: 1,663 (an increase of 98);
- movables database: 4,637 (an increase of 2,932);
- music items database: 1,618 (an increase of 126);
- database of gardens and parks: 41 (an increase of 23);
- database of the last monastics: 355 (an increase of 184);
- database of architectural drawings and iconography: 641 (an increase of 135);
- database of religious orders and congregations: 126 (an increase of 16);
The test version (available at pw.kasaty.pl) also contains an interactive map of dissolved
monasteries. It features all monastic houses for which geographical coordinates have been
established.
3. Research
Research under the Project is conducted by individual collaborators and by research teams.
3.1. Research teams
Team I. The team has disbanded. Its members, Dr Witalij Rosowski and Dr Irena Wodzianowska,
are willing to continue their collaboration with the Project as part of their individual research.
Team II. Composition: eight scholars (no change). Coordinator: Prof Piotr Oliński (Nicolaus
Copernicus University). Objective: to make an inventory of the legacy of monasteries dissolved in
West Prussia. A report for the period between 1 November 2014 and 31 October 2015 will be
published in HM, 7, 2015.
Team III. Composition: four scholars (no change). Coordinator: Rev Prof Janusz Królikowski (John
Paul II University). Objective: inventory and study of the cultural heritage of monasteries dissolved
in the Diocese of Tarnów. A report for the period between 1 November 2014 and 31 October 2015
will be published in HM, 7, 2015.
Team IV. The team has been disbanded, its objectives have been achieved to a very limited extent.
Team V. Composition: one scholar (Dr Barbara Markowska has resigned as team member).
Research is being continued by Dr Marcin Jewdokimow (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University).
Objective: study the material and symbolic significance of selected dissolved monasteries to their
local communities and preparation of articles devoted to the topic. A report for the period
between 1 November 2014 and 31 October 2015 will be published in HM, 7, 2015.
Team VI. Composition: four scholars (no change in terms of numbers; Mgr Inga Stembrowicz has
resigned as team member, Mgr Konrad Morawski has joined the team). Coordinator: Mgr
Małgorzata Kośka (Central Archives of Historical Records). Objective: inventory and study of
records relating to former monasteries and dissolutions, and kept in the Central Archives of
Historical Records, Warsaw. Report, see HM 6, 2015, p. 493.
Team VII. The team has been disbanded without achieving its objectives.
Team VIII. Composition: four scholars (no change). Coordinator: Mgr Elżbieta Bylinowa. The team
has suspended its activities until the end of 2015.
Team IX. The team has disbanded owing to the fact that its members have different tasks to
perform. Work on an inventory of the holdings of the Polish Academy of Sciences’ Kórnik Library is
carried out by the Project Office.
Team X. Composition: two scholars (Mgr Anna Jezierska has resigned as team member).
Coordinator: Mgr Urszula Bończuk-Dawidziuk (University of Wrocław Museum). Objective: edition
of Acta manualia die Uebernahme der Bibliotheken, Kunstsammlungen & Archive in den aufgehobenen
Klöstern Schlesiens betreffend. Busching. Report, see HM 6, 2015, p. 494.
Team XI. Composition: three scholars (no change). Coordinator: Dr Alina Mądry (Adam Mickiewicz
University, National Museum in Poznań). Objective: inventory of musical items and musical
instruments. Report, see HM 5, 2014, pp. 495-498.
Team XII. Composition: five scholars (no change). Coordinator: Mgr Ewa Hauptman-Fischer
(Warsaw University Library). Objective: inventory of musical items from former monasteries kept
in the Warsaw University Library. Report, see HM 6, 2015, pp. 499-511.
Team XIII. Composition: four scholars (no change). Coordinator: Dr hab. Andrzej Kozieł (University
of Wrocław). Objective: to compile a complete catalogue of all surviving works of art which were
to be found in the Lubiąż Abbey before 1810. Report, see HM 6, 2015, pp. 512-513.
Team XIV. Composition: two scholars (no change). The team has suspended its activities until June
2016.
Team XV. Composition: two scholars (no change). The team has achieved its objective, i.e. has
compiled an inventory of printed books from dissolved monasteries kept in the Cieszyn Library,
and has finished its work.
Team XVI. Composition: three scholars (Mgr Krzysztof Kaleta and Mgr Paulina Kraska have
resigned as team members). Coordinator: Mgr Łukasz Guldon. Objective: inventory and study of
archival materials relating to former monasteries and dissolutions, and kept in the State Archives
in Kielce. Report, see HM 6, 2015, p. 514.
Team XVII. Composition: two scholars (no change). Objective: inventory of archival materials
illustrating the fate of the cultural heritage of dissolved monasteries and kept in the State Archives
in Radom. Report, see HM 6, 2015, pp. 515-516.
Team XVIII. Composition: two scholars (no change). Objective: to compile and prepare for
publication an inventory of manuscripts from dissolved monasteries kept in the Wrocław
University Library. Report, see HM 6, 2015, p. 517.
Team XIX. Composition: three scholars (Dr Robert Heś and Dr Beata Marcisz-Czapla have resigned
as team members). Coordinator: Dr Marek L. Wójcik (University of Wrocław). Objective: edition of
19th-century repositories of documents from monasteries dissolved in Silesia kept in the State
Archives in Wrocław Report, see HM 6, 2015, pp. 518-519.
Team XX. Composition: two scholars (no change). Objective: inventory of the holdings of the State
Archives in Opole relating to archival materials of interest to the Project. Report, see HM 6, 2015,
p. 520-553.
3.2. Preliminary research and miscellaneous studies
Work has been carried out to find and systematise source information about the dissolved
monasteries, and to enter the data into the Knowledge Portal.
Mgr Piotr Piętkowski with the team (Mgr Anna Brodziak, Mgr Maciej Badowicz, Mgr Dominik
Kwieciak, Mgr Kacper Manikowski, Konrad Szymański, Mgr Jacek Wójcik and Mgr Patrycja Ziomek)
and member of the Project Office have been working on adding the data to the Project databases.
Mgr Piotr Piętkowski has successfully negotiated collaboration with the Project concerning the
publication of its data in the Library and Archives of the Monastery of the Brothers Hospitallers of
St. John of God in Cracow, Franciscan Archives in Cracow and Reformati Franciscan Archives in
Cracow. He has also conducted talks and research at the Kórnik Library of the Polish Academy of
Sciences, Library of the Adam Mickiewicz University and the State Archives and the Archdiocesan
Archives in Poznań. Together with a four-scholar team (Mgr Maciej Badowicz, Mgr Anna Brodziak,
Mgr Kacper Manikowski, Mgr Jacek Wójcik) he has conducted research at the Archives of the
Monastery of the Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God in Cracow (former Trinitarian archival
materials) and at the Wawel branch of the National Archives in Cracow. A report on the work of
the team coordinated by Mgr Piotr Piętkowski will be published in HM, 7, 2015.
Individual studies have also been conducted as part of the Project:
Dr Andrzej Buczyło (Biała Podlaska) is conducting preliminary research at the Diocesan Archives in
Siedlce, preparing an inventory of its archival holdings of interest to the Project.
Dr Janina Dzik (SIMA-ART, Cracow) is continuing her preliminary research in archives and libraries
as well as field research in Małopolska, looking for works of art and printed books from dissolved
monasteries. She has also begun preliminary research in connection with a catalogue she is
working on of 18th-century paintings in monastic churches in the former Polish-Lithuanian
Commonwealth. Between 16 and 18 December 2014 she carried out preliminary research in
Warsaw, surveying the holdings of the recording library of the Institute of Art, Polish Academy of
Sciences, Archives of the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University as well as Churches of St. Anna and
St. Anthony (Czerniaków district).
Dr Waldemar Firlej and Dr Danuta Krześniak-Firlej (Jan Kochanowski University of Kielce), who
were to prepare a study of the fate of monastics from dissolved monasteries, who took up writing
and teaching in the Dioceses of Kielce and Sandomierz in the 19th and early 20th century, in the
end have come up with a study entitled Bibliografia piśmiennictwa zakonników z obszaru diecezji
kieleckiej i sandomierskiej w drugiej połowie XVIII i XIX wieku [Bibliography of the Writings of Monastics from
the Dioceses of Kielce and Sandomierz in the Second Half of the 18th and in the 19th Century], which has
been reviewed and accepted for publication in one of the future issues of HM.
Dr Cezary Jastrzębski (Jan Kochanowski University of Kielce) is continuing his work on the book
Skasowane klasztory między Wisłą a Pilicą we wspomnieniach i relacjach prasowych. Antologia
[Dissolved Monasteries Between Rivers Vistula and Pilica in Memoirs and Press Accounts. An
Anthology], vol. 1: 1795–1863.
Mgr Grzegorz Joachimiak (University of Wrocław), who has completed his work on the adaptation
of RISM records from the Cistercian Abbey in Krzeszów to the requirements of the musical items
database in the Knowledge Portal (120 records in total), is continuing his work on the cataloguing
of musical items in the abbey, currently kept in the Library of the Abbey of the Benedictine Sisters
in Krzeszów – he has added a group of 121 manuscripts (there are now 221 manuscripts in total).
A report for the period between 1 November 2014 and 31 October 2015 will be published in HM,
7, 2015.
Dr Magdalena Marosz (National Archives, Cracow) has completed her work on an inventory of
archival materials from dissolved monasteries of the Augustinian Hermits kept in the Archdiocesan
Archives in Warsaw, Central Archives of Historical Records in Warsaw, Archives of the Carmelite
Monastery in Cracow, National Archives in Cracow, State Archives in Bydgoszcz, Library of the
Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Manuscript Section of
the Jagiellonian Library in Cracow, Manuscript Department of the Warsaw University Library and
Manuscript Department of the Library of the Ossoliński National Institute in Wrocław. She has
begun working on an inventory of records from dissolved monasteries kept in the Archives of the
Cracow Province of the Discalced Carmelites and in the Archives of the Abbey of the Benedictine
Nuns in Staniątki. The results of this research will be published in 2016 in the form of books.
Mgr Dorota Matyaszczyk is studying the fate of the cultural heritage of monasteries dissolved in
Wielkopolska. Report, see HM 6, 2015, pp. 554-555.
Mgr Ewa Mikołajczak (Municipal Building Archives in Wrocław) has completed her work on an
inventory of architectural documentation of the former monastery buildings on the Sand Island in
Wrocław, now kept in the Municipal Building Archives, Museum of Architecture, Wrocław. At the
moment she is finishing her work on a monograph devoted to the topic.
Dr hab. Dr hab. Jerzy Pająk and Prof dr hab. Jerzy Szczepański (Jan Kochanowski University, Kielce)
are continuing their work on a catalogue of maps, plans and architectural drawings from dissolved
monasteries kept in the State Archives in Radom. The publication is planned for 2016.
Mgr Krzysztof Pawlik (Wrocław) has had to suspend his work on an edition of Katalogen des hisiegen
Gymnasiums so wie der Stifts- und Klosterbibliotheken in Neisse 1812 from the collection of the State
Archives in Opole for family reasons.
Dr Gregor Ploch (Archdiocese of Vienna) is continuing his work on an inventory of archive
documents concerning Josephinist dissolutions in Galicia in the Stiftungshofbuchhaltung fonds of
the Austrian State Archives in Vienna. The results of this research will be published in 2016 in the
form of a book.
Dr Andreas Reinke (Berlin) is continuing his preliminary research at the Prussian Privy State
Archives in Dahlem-Berlin with a view to selecting and compiling an inventory of official
documents relating to monasteries dissolved in Silesia. The results of this research will be
published in 2016 in the form of a book.
Mgr Karol Seidel (Głogów) has conducted preliminary research in the State Archives in Poznań and
the Archdiocesan Archives in Poznań in order to create digital copies of archival records associated
with the dissolved Cistercian Monastery in Przęmęt.
Dr Szymon Sułecki (Archives of the Carmelite Monastery in Piasek, Cracow) has begun working on
an inventory of records of dissolved monasteries kept in the Archives of the Carmelite Monastery
in Piasek, Cracow. The results of this research will be published in 2016 in the form of a book.
Prof Tadeusz M. Trajdos (Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences) has finished his work on
an edition of the last extant inventories of the Benedictine Monastery of Stare Troki from 1797
and 1799. The book will be published in 2016.
Prof Magdalena Ujma (University of Opole) is finishing her work on the publication of plans of
dissolved monasteries kept in the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv. The book will
be published in 2016.
3.3. Acquisition of source and iconographic material
The following source and iconographic materials were digitised or purchased in the analysed
reporting period:
Photographs (181) of architectural details from the former Cistercian Abbey in Lubiąż taken by
Magdalena Pulik as part of the work of Team XIII.
Capitulum electivum provinciae Lithvanae, S. Angeli Custodis, ordinis Praedicatorum, Vilnae, Typis
Neumanii et Dworzecii, anno 1833, digitisation of records kept in the University of Wrocław
Library on the Sand Island.
3.4. Acquisition of books
The following books were purchased in the reporting period:
Vytautas Alisauskas (ed.), Dzieje chrześcijaństwa na Litwie = Krikścionybes Lietuvoje istorija [History of
Christianity in Lithuania], Warsaw: Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 2014, 6 tables, 8 maps, 136 ill.,
index of people
Nina Brzostowska-Smólska, Krzysztof Smólski, Kościół paulinów - Ducha Świętego [The Pauline Church of
the Holy Spirit] (Najpiękniejsze Kościoły Warszawy [The Most Beautiful Warsaw Churches]), phot.
Janusz Rosikoń, Izabelin-Warszawa: Rosikon Press, 2011, 98 pp., 2 maps, 59 ill., bibliography
Richard Butterwick, Polska rewolucja a Kościół Katolicki 1788-1792 [Polish Revolution and the Catholic
Church 1788-1792], transl. Marek Ugniewski, Kraków: Arcana, 2012, 1004 pp., 3 tables, 4 maps, 41
ill., index of people, geographical index, bibliography
Piotr Chomik, Życie monastyczne w Wielkim Księstwie Litewskim w XVI wieku [Monastic Life in the Grand
Duchy of Lithuania in the 16th Century], Kraków: Avalon, 2013, 646 pp., summary in Russian, index of
people, bibliography
Krzysztof Garbacz, Przewodnik po zabytkach województwa lubuskiego, vol. 1: Powiaty: zielonogórski świebodziński - krośnieński = Sehenswertes in der Wojewodschaft Lubuskie. Reiseführe, Bd. 1: Die Kreise
Zielona Góra, Świebodzin und Krosno Odrzańskie [A Guide to the Historic Monuments of the Lubuskie
Province. Districts of Zielona Góra, Świebodzin and Krosno Odrzańskie], Zielona Góra: Agencja
Wydawnicza “PDN", 2014, 272 pp., 3 maps, 121 ill., lists of immovable monuments in German,
bibliography (2nd revised edition)
Krzysztof Garbacz, Przewodnik po zabytkach województwa lubuskiego, vol. 2: Powiaty: żarski - żagański nowosolski - wschowski = Sehenswertes in der Wojewodschaft Lubuskie. Reiseführe, Bd. 2: Die Kreise Żary,
Żagań, Nowa Sól und Wschowa [A Guide to the Historic Monuments of the Lubuskie Province. Districts of
Żary, Żagań, Nowa Sól and Wschowa], Zielona Góra: Agencja Wydawnicza “PDN", 2012, 368 pp., 4
maps, 193 ill., lists of immovable monuments in German, bibliography
Krzysztof Garbacz, Przewodnik po zabytkach województwa lubuskiego, vol. 3: Powiaty: gorzowski - słubicki
- sulęciński - międzyrzecki - strzelecko-drezdenecki = Sehenswertes in der Wojewodschaft Lubuskie. Reiseführe,
Bd. 3: Die Kreise Gorzów, Słubice, Sulęcin, Międzyrzecz und Strzelce Krajeńskie-Drezdenko [Guide to the
Historic Monuments of the Lubuskie Province. Districts of Gorzów, Słubice, Sulęcin and Strzelce KrajeńskieDrezdenko], Zielona Góra: Agencja Wydawnicza “PDN", 2013, 344 pp., 5 maps, 156 ill., lists of
immovable monuments in German, bibliography
Wojciech Jakubowski, ks. Marek Solarczyk, Organizacja Kościoła Rzymskokatolickiego na ziemiach
polskich od X do XXI wieku. Informatorium historyczne [The Organisation of the Roman Catholic Church in
Poland Between the 10th and the 21st Centuries], Warszawa-Olsztyn: Oficyna Wydawnicza ASPRA-JR,
458 pp., 83 tables, 12 maps, 28 ill., bibliography
Jolanta Kwiatek, Szkolnictwo średnie na Górnym Śląsku na tle reform oświatowych w Prusach od połowy
XVIII wieku do początków XX wieku [Secondary Schools in Upper Silesia Against the Background of Education
System Reforms in Prussia Between the Mid-18th and Early 20th Century] (Studia i Monografie, 458),
Opole: Uniwersytet Opolski, 2011, 35 tables, index of people, geographical index, bibliography,
summary in German
Józef Mandziuk, Historia Kościoła Katolickiego na Śląsku. Czasy nowożytne [The History of the Catholic
Church in Silesia. The Modern Period], vol. 3, part 3: (1887-1914), Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu
Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego, 2009, 468 pp, 22 tables, index of people, geographical index
Jerzy Michalewicz, Katalog Archiwum Polskiej Prowincji Zgromadzenia Księży Misjonarzy św. Wincentego a
Paulo [Catalogue of the Archives of the Polish Province of the Vincentian Missionaries], vol. 1, Kraków:
Polska Akademia Umiejętności, 2014, 1172 pp., 1 ill., index of people
“Nova Polonia Sacra: a periodical dedicated to studies of the history of the Church, canon law and
theological literature in Poland”, 1926, 2, 262 pp., index of people and places
Jerzy Paszenda SJ, Budowle jezuickie w Polsce XVI-XVIII w. [Jesuit Buildings in Poland in the 16th-18th
Centuries], vol. 3, Kraków: Wydawnictwo WAM-Wyższa Szkoła Filozoficzno-Pedagogiczna
“Ignatianum”, 2006, 400 pp., 134 ill.
Marcin Pielesz, Zabytkowe klasztory w Małopolsce. Przewodnik [Historic Monasteries in Małopolska. A
Guide], Kielce: Wydawnictwo: “Jedność", 2014, 272 pp., 18 maps, 410 ill., bibliography
Hugo Sommer, Pruskie garnizony wojskowe. W Poznańskiem, Prusach Zachodnich i na Górnym Śląsku
[Prussian Military Garrisons. In the Poznań Province, West Prussia and Upper Silesia], Oświęcim:
Wydawnictwo Napoleon V, 2011, 66 pp.
Tadeusz Szydłowski, Ruiny Polski: opis szkód wyrządzonych przez wojnę w dziedzinie zabytków sztuki na
ziemiach Małopolski i Rusi Czerwonej z 227 rycinami i mapką orientacyjną [Ruins of Poland: Monuments of
Art Destroyed by War in Małopolska and Red Ruthenia with 227 Prints and an Orienteering Map],
Warszawa: Grafika Iwona Knechta, 2013, photo offset reprint of a 1919 edition, VII, 226 pp., 1
map, 227 ill., geographical index
Jerzy Teliga, Opactwo oo. Cystersów w Wąchocku. Metody zabezpieczania statycznego i restauracji
murowanych konstrukcji zabytkowych - prostowanie ściany [The Cistercian Abbey of Wąchocki. Methods of
Static Protection and Restoration of Historic Buildings – Wall Straightening], Warszawa: Ośrodek
Informacji Konserwatorskiej PP. Pracownie Konserwacji Zabytków, 1972, 32 pp., 15 ill.
Stanisław Wiliński, Gotycki kościół pocysterskiego opactwa paradyskiego w Gościkowie [The Gothic Church
of the Former Cistercian Abbey of Gościkowo] (Poznańskie Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Nauk. Wydział
Historii i Nauk Społecznych. Prace Komisji Historii Sztuki, 4/1), Poznań: Poznańskie Towarzystwo
Przyjaciół Nauk, 1953, 104 pp., 86 ill., bibliography, summary in French
4. Conferences
4.1. Featuring the Project themes
21–22 November 2014, Cracow, Historical Dominican Book Collections. Places, People, Stories. Paper
delivered: Piotr Piętkowski, Księgozbiory poklasztorne pochodzące z Archiwum Polskiej Prowincji oo.
Dominikanów w Krakowie zewidencjonowane w ramach projektu: “Dziedzictwo kulturowe po klasztorach
skasowanych na ziemiach dawnej Rzeczypospolitej oraz na Śląsku w XVIII i XIX w.: losy, znaczenie,
inwentaryzacja” [Former monastery libraries from the Archives of the Polish Province of the Dominicans in
Cracow inventoried as part of the project Cultural heritage of dissolved monasteries on the territory of former
Poland and in Silesia in 18th and 19th centuries: fate, significance, cataloguing].
12 December 2014, Paris, Clergy in Crisis? 1650–1900. Paper delivered: Marek Derwich, Le projet «
L'héritage culturel des monastères dissous sur le territoire de l'ancienne Pologne et en Silésie aux XVIII e et XIXe
siècles : devenir, signification, inventaire » et ses bases de données.
5. Publications financed and co-financed under the Project
5.1. Hereditas Monasteriorum
Issue 5, 2014, 570 pp., 37 illustrations, 25 tables, introduction and summaries in English, is now
available online: http://hm.kasaty.pl/tom-5-2014/
We are finishing our work on issue 7, 2014.
5.2. Published books
Marek Derwich (ed.), Kasaty klasztorów na obszarze dawnej Rzeczypospolitej Obojga Narodów i
na Śląsku na tle procesów sekularyzacyjnych w Europie [Dissolution of Monasteries in the Former
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and in Silesia against the Background of Secularisation
Processes in Europe], vol. I: Geneza. Kasaty na ziemiach zaborów austriackiego i rosyjskiego [The
origins. Dissolutions in the territories annexed by Austria and Russia]; vol. II: Kasaty na Śląsku
Pruskim i na ziemiach zaboru pruskiego [Dissolutions in Prussian Silesia and the territories annexed by
Prussia]; vol. III: Źródła. Skutki kasat XVIII i XIX w. Kasata w latach 1954-1956 [Sources. The effects
of 18th- and 19th-century dissolutions. The dissolution of 1954–1956]; vol. IV: Dokumentacja
[Documentation] (Opera ad Historiam Monasticam Spectantia, curavit Marcus Derwich, Series I:
Colloquia, 8/I-IV) (co-financed under the Project)
5.3. Books in press
W. Chotkowski, Kasaty klasztorne w Galicji. Wybór prac [Dissolutions of Monasteries in Galicia. A Selection
of Papers], eds. Anna Gąsior, Janusz Królikowski (Dziedzictwo Kulturowe po Skasowanych
Klasztorach), Wrocław, to be published in 2016
Marek Derwich (Hg.), Die Auflösung der Klöster in Preußisch-Schlesien 1810 (Dziedzictwo Kulturowe po
Skasowanych Klasztorach), Wrocław, to be published in 2016
Marek Derwich (ed.), Losy dziedzictwa po klasztorach jezuickich skasowanych na obszarze Rzeczypospolitej
Obojga Narodów oraz jego znaczenie dla powstania i działalności Komisji Edukacji Narodowej [The Fate of
the Heritage of Jesuit Monasteries Dissolved in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Its Significance to
the Founding and Operation of the Commission of National Education] (Dziedzictwo Kulturowe po
Skasowanych Klasztorach), Wrocław, to be published in 2016
Marek Derwich (ed.), Losy i znaczenie dziedzictwa kulturowego po klasztorach skasowanych na
ziemiach zaboru rosyjskiego w latach 1864-1905 [The Fate and Significance of the Cultural
Heritage of Monasteries Dissolved in the Territories Annexed by Russia in 1864–1905],
(Dziedzictwo Kulturowe po Skasowanych Klasztorach), Wrocław, to be published in 2016
Marek Derwich (ed.), Losy i znaczenie dziedzictwa kulturowego po klasztorach skasowanych w
Płocku oraz na Mazowszu i ziemi dobrzyńskiej [The Fate and Significance of the Cultural Heritage
of Monasteries Dissolved in Płock, Mazovia and the Dobrzyń Region] (Dziedzictwo Kulturowe po
Skasowanych Klasztorach), Wrocław, to be published in 2016
Marek Derwich (ed.), Losy i znaczenie dziedzictwa po klasztorach skasowanych na obszarze Galicji
pod rządami austriackimi [The Fate and Significance of the Heritage of Monasteries Dissolved in
Galicia Under Austrian Rule] (Dziedzictwo Kulturowe po Skasowanych Klasztorach), Wrocław, to be
published in 2016
Marek Derwich red.), Losy i znaczenie dziedzictwa po klasztorach skasowanych w Wielkopolsce pod
rządami pruskimi (do 1871 r.) [The Fate of the Heritage of Monasteries Dissolved in Wielkopolska Under
Prussian Rule (Until 1871)] (Dziedzictwo Kulturowe po Skasowanych Klasztorach), Wrocław, to be
published in 2016
Marek Derwich (ed.), Losy klasztorów i zbiorów poklasztornych w okresie represji po upadku
powstania listopadowego w 1831 roku [The Fate of Monasteries and Former Monastery
Collections During the Period of Repression Following the Fall of the November Uprising in 1831]
(Dziedzictwo Kulturowe po Skasowanych Klasztorach), Wrocław, to be published in 2016
Marek Derwich, Piotr Oliński, Waldemar Rozynkowski (eds.), Losy i znaczenie dziedzictwa po
klasztorach skasowanych na obszarze Prus Zachodnich i Wschodnich, Pomorza i Inflant [The Fate
and Significance of the Heritage of Monasteries Dissolved in West and East Prussia, Pomerania and
Livonia] (Dziedzictwo Kulturowe po Skasowanych Klasztorach), Wrocław, to be published in 2016
Jerzy Kaliszuk, Średniowieczne rękopisy łacińskie Biblioteki Narodowej utracone w czasie II wojny światowej
[Medieval Latin Manuscripts from the National Library Lost During the Second World War], vol. 1:
Prolegomena, vol. 2: Wykaz [List], vol. 3: Ekscerpty źródłowe (w oparciu o spuściznę po Marii Hornowskiej
oraz inne materiały archiwalne). Indeksy [Source Excerpts (Based on the Legacy of Maria Hornowska and
Other Archive Material). Indexes] (Dziedzictwo Kulturowe po Skasowanych Klasztorach), Wrocław, to
be published in 2016
Maria Kałamajska-Saeed, Archiwum i biblioteka klasztoru brygidek w Grodnie. Inwentarz z 1925 r. i stan
współczesny [The Archives and Library of the Bridgettine Monastery in Grodno. The 1925 Inventory and
Present State] (Dziedzictwo Kulturowe po Skasowanych Klasztorach), Wrocław, to be published in
the second half of 2015
Materiały źródłowe dotyczące dziejów kamedulskiej jurydyki w podwarszawskiej Pradze z lat 1666-1717
[Source Material Relating to the Camaldolese Jurydyka in Praga near Warsaw from 1666–1717] edited by
Łukasz Truściński in collaboration with Paweł Klint (Dziedzictwo Kulturowe po Skasowanych
Klasztorach), Wrocław, to be published in the second half of 2015
Dorota Matyaszczyk, “Akta tyczące się sprzętów jakich kościoły parafialne archidiecezji poznańskiej
potrzebują”. Rps Ka 12 236 236 w Archiwum Archidiecezjalnym w Poznaniu [“Records Concerning the
Furnishings Needed by Parish Churches in the Archdiocese of Poznań”. Manuscript Ka 12 236 in the
Archdiocesan Archives in Poznań] (Dziedzictwo Kulturowe po Skasowanych Klasztorach), Wrocław, to be
published in 2016
Piotr Oliński, Waldemar Rozynkowski (eds.), Źródła i materiały do badań nad kasatami klasztorów z
obszaru Pomorza Nadwiślańskiego i ziemi chełmińskiej (XIX i XX w.) [Sources and Material for the Study of the
Dissolution of Monasteries in Pomerelia and Chełmno Region (19th and 20th Centuries)] (Dziedzictwo
Kulturowe po Skasowanych Klasztorach, 1), Wrocław, to be published in the second half of 2015
Ostatnie zachowane inwentarze opactwa benedyktynów w Starych Trokach z 1797 i 1799 [The Last Extant
Inventories of the Benedictine Monastery of Stare Troki from 1797 and 1799] edited and introduced by
Tadeusz M. Trajdos (Dziedzictwo Kulturowe po Skasowanych Klasztorach), Wrocław, to be
published in 2016
Anna Szylar, “Pióro żadne nie jest w stanie wyrazić jej zalet”. Listy informujące o śmierci mniszek adresowane
do opactwa benedyktynek w Sandomierzu w zbiorach Biblioteki Diecezjalnej w Sandomierzu (1781-1897)
[“There is No Pen to Express Her Virtues”. Letters on the Deaths of Nuns Addressed to the Benedictine Abbey
in Sandomierz in the Collection of the Diocesan Library in Sandomierz (1781–1897)] (Dziedzictwo Kulturowe
po Skasowanych Klasztorach), Wrocław, to be published in the second half of 2015
5.4. Articles
Kamila Follprecht, Zmiany własności nieruchomości w Krakowie związane z kasatami klasztorów przełomu
XVIII i XIX w. [Changes in the ownership of property in Cracow associated with dissolutions of monasteries at
the turn of the 19th century], HM, 5, 2014, pp. 27-41.
Marcin Jewdokimow, Barbara Markowska, Miejsce i rola klasztoru bernardynów w pamięci zbiorowej
społeczności lokalnej Opatowa. Studium przypadku [The place and role of the Bernardine Monastery in the
collective memory of the local community in Opatów. A case study], HM, 5, 2014, pp. 43-62.
Tadeusz M. Trajdos, Augustianie w Brześciu Litewskim pod panowaniem rosyjskim [Augustinian Hermits in
Brest-Litovsk under Russian rule], HM, 5, 2014, pp. 13-25.
5.5. Editions and sources
Urszula Bończuk-Dawidziuk, Arkadiusz Wojtyła, Przebieg postępowania kasacyjnego w opactwie
norbertanów przy kościele św. Wincentego we Wrocławiu w świetle „Akt Buschinga"ze zbiorów Biblioteki
Uniwersyteckiej we Wrocławiu [The dissolution procedure at the Norbertine Abbey at the Church of St.
Vincent in Wrocław in the light of the “Büsching Papers” from the collection of the Wrocław University
Library], HM, 5, 2014, pp. 331-367.
Janina Dzik, Monstrancja i kielich z dawnego kościoła klasztornego reformatów w Kryłowie, obecnie w
zakrystii klasztoru reformatów w Przemyślu [Monstrance and chalice from the former Reformati Monastery
Church in Kryłów, currently in the sacristy of the Reformati Monastery in Przemyśl], HM, 5, 2014, pp. 295302.
Zbigniew Joskowski OFMConv, Stare druki z księgozbiorów klasztornych w zbiorach Biblioteki
Prowincjalnej Franciszkanów w Gnieźnie. Apendyks do katalogu starych druków [Early printed books from
monastic libraries in the Provincial Library of the Franciscans in Gniezno. An appendix to the early printed book
catalogue], HM, 5, 2014, pp. 303-327.
Dorota Lewandowska, Pokasacyjne losy opactwa cystersów w Lądzie na podstawie źródeł archiwalnych
zachowanych w zespołach akt: „Centralne Władze Wyznaniowe Królestwa Polskiego" i „Komisja
Województwa Kaliskiego" z zasobu Archiwum Głównego Akt Dawnych w Warszawie [The post-dissolution
fate of the Cistercian Abbey in Ląd on the basis of archive sources preserved in the fonds “Central Religious
Authorities of the Kingdom of Poland” and “Commission of the Kalisz Province”, kept in the Central Archives of
Historical Records, Warsaw], HM, 5, 2014, pp. 65-106.
Dorota Matyaszczyk, Lustracje przeprowadzane w klasztorach wielkopolskich w latach 1817-1825,
Archiwum Archidiecezjalne w Poznaniu, sygn. KA 12 249”[Inspections in monasteries of the Wielkopolska
province in 1817-1825, Archdiocesan Archives in Poznań, no. KA 249], HM, 5, 2014, pp. 369-381.
Witalij Rosowski, Archiwalia na temat skasowanych klasztorów w zbiorach państwowych archiwów w
Kijowie i Żytomierzu na Ukrainie w świetle kwerendy przeprowadzonej w dniach 5-23 VIII 2013 r. [Archive
documents concerning dissolved monasteries in the state archives in Kiev and Zhytomyr, Ukraine, in the light
of a survey of holdings carried out between 5 and 23 August 2013], HM, 5, 2014, pp. 269-294.
Aleksander Krzysztof Sitnik OFM, Inwentarze klasztoru i kościoła klasztornego bernardynów w Brzeżanach
z lat 1781-1848 [The inventories of the Bernardine Monastery and Church in Berezhany from 1781-1848],
HM, 5, 2014, pp. 383-414.
Mirosława Sobczyńska-Szczepańska, Emilia Ziółkowska, Źródła do dziejów skasowanych klasztorów w
zasobie Archiwum Diecezjalnego w Drohiczynie [Sources for the study of dissolved monasteries in the
Diocesan Archives in Drohiczyn], HM, 5, 2014, pp. 191-267.
Anna Szylar, Wykaz zawartości jednostki archiwalnej Akta zakonne sióstr Norbertanek w Busku 1786-1831
[The contents of the archival unit Monastic records of the Norbertine Sisters of Busko 1786–1831], HM, 5,
2014, pp. 163-189.
Krzysztof Wiśniewski, Kościół św. św. Piotra i Pawła Apostołów oraz inne zabudowania jezuickie i
benedyktyńskie w Pułtusku (inwentarze z lat 1781-1882 oraz dokumentacja fotograficzna) [The Church of SS.
Apostles Peter and Paul and other Jesuit and Benedictine buildings in Pułtusk (inventories from 1781-1882 and
photographic documentation)], HM, 5, 2014, pp. 107-161.
5.6. Reviews
Halina RUSIŃSKA-GIERTYCH, reviewer: Друкарня Почаївського Успенського монастиря та її
стародруки. Збірник наукових праць [Drukarnia Poczajowskiego Uspieńskiego klasztoru i jej
starodruki. Zbiór prac = The Printing House of the Pochayiv Uspensky Monastery and Its Early
Printed Books], Київ: Національна Академія Наук України, Національна Бібліотека України ім.
В. І. Вернадського, 2011, 263 pp., 39 ill., bibliography, HM, 5, 2014, pp. 427–430.
5.7. Conference reports
Witalij Rosowski, Sprawozdanie z konferencji naukowej Losy i znaczenie dziedzictwa kulturowego po
klasztorach skasowanych na ziemiach zaboru rosyjskiego w latach 1864-1905. W 150. rocznicę wielkiej kasaty
klasztorów dokonanej w 1864 r. [Report on the conference The Fate and Significance of the Cultural Heritage
of Monasteries Dissolved in the Territories Annexed by Russia in 1864–1905. On the 150th anniversary of the
great dissolution of monasteries carried out in 1864] HM, 5, 2014, pp. 444-447.
5.8. Preliminary research reports
Grzegorz Joachimiak, Muzykalia z klasztorów cysterskich w Krzeszowie i Obrze; nieznane źródła z
Krzeszowa. Sprawozdanie z prac w dniach 1 V 2013–30 X2014 r. [Music collections from Cistercian
monasteries in Krzeszów and Obra; unknown sources from Krzeszów. Progress report for the period between
1 May 2013 and 30 October 2014], HM, 5, 2014, pp . 499-511.
Beata Lorens, Sprawozdanie z prac w 20I4 r. [Progress report for 2014], HM, 5, 2014, p. 512.
Dorota Matyaszczyk, Sprawozdanie z prac w dniach 1 V–30 X20I4 r. [Progress report for the period
between 1 May and 30 October 2014], HM, 5, 2014, pp. 513-514.
5.9. Project progress reports
Marek Derwich, Project progress report, 1 June–31 October 2014, HM, 5, 2014, pp. 433-443.
Urszula Bończuk-Dawidziuk, Sprawozdanie [Zespołu X] z postępu prac nad wydaniem Akt Büschinga w
dniach 30 IV–30 X 2014 r. [Report (of Team X) on the work on an edition of the Büsching Papers
carried out between 30 April and 30 October 2014], HM, 5, 2014, pp. 468.
Ałła Brzozowska, Adam Poznański, Sprawozdanie [Zespołu XVIII] z prac w dniach 1 XI 2013–30 X
2014 r. [Progress report (of Team XVIII) for the period between 1 November 2013 and 30 October
2014], HM, 5, 2014, p. 495.
Anna Gadomska, Sprawozdanie [Zespołu XVII] z prac w dniach 1 V–31 X 2013 r. r. [Progress report (of
Team XVII) for the period between 1 May and 31 October 2014], HM, 5, 2014, pp. 493-494.
Łukasz Guldon, Sprawozdanie [Zespołu XVI] z prac w dniach 1 VI–31 X 2014 r. [Progress report (of Team
XVI) for the period between 1 June and 31 October 2014], HM, 5, 2014, pp. 492.
Ewa Hauptman-Fischer, Katarzyna Spurgjasz, Sprawozdanie [Zespołu XII] z inwentaryzacji muzykaliów
poklasztornych w Gabinecie Zbiorów Muzycznych Biblioteki Uniwersyteckiej w Warszawie w dniach 1 V–31 X
2014 r. [Report (of Team XII) on inventory taking of musical items from former monasteries kept in the Music
Department of the Warsaw University Library carried out between 1 May and 31 October 2014], HM, 5,
2014, pp. 470-483.
Marcin Jewdokimow, Sprawozdanie [Zespołu V] z prac w dniach 1 VI–30 X 2014. [Progress report
(of Team V) for the period between 1 June and 30 October 2014], HM, 5, 2014, pp. 465-466.
Małgorzata Kośka, Sprawozdanie [Zespołu VI] z prac w dniach 1 V–30 X 2014 r. [Progress report (of Team
VI) for the period between 1 May and 30 October 2014], HM, 5, 2014, p. 467.
Andrzej Kozieł, Sprawozdanie [Zespołu XIII] z prac nad projektem Klasztor Cystersów w Lubiążu.
Katalog dzieł sztuki w dniach 1 V–30 X 2014 r. [Progress report (of Team XIII) on the work on the
project The Cistercian Monastery of Lubiąż. Catalogue of Works of Art for the period between 1
May and 30 October 2014], HM, 5, 2014, pp. 484-485.
Rev Janusz Królikowski, Sprawozdanie [Zespołu III] z prac w dniach 1 XI 2013–30 X 2014 r. [Progress
report (of Team III) for the period between 1 November 2013 and 30 October 2014], HM, 5, 2014,
pp. 455-463.
Alina Mądry, Sprawozdanie [Zespołu XI] z działalności w dniach 1 V 2013–30 X 2014 r. [Report (of Team
XI) for the period between 1 May 2013 and 30 October 2014], HM, 5, 2014, p. 469.
Małgorzata Milecka, Ewelina Widelska, Sprawozdanie [Zespołu IV] z prac w dniach 1 VI–30 X 2014 r.
[Report (of Team IV) for the period between 1 June and 30 October 2014], HM, 5, 2014, pp. 464.
Piotr Oliński, Sprawozdanie [Zespołu II] z prac w dniach 1 VI–30 X 2014 r. [Report (of Team II) for the
period between 1 June and 30 October 2014], HM, 5, 2014, p. 454.
Dorota Rejman, Monika Kopeć, Sprawozdanie [Zespołu XIV] z kwerendy w Archiwum Biblioteki
Diecezjalnej w Sandomierzu w dniach 1 V–30 X 2014 r. [Report (of Team XIV) on preliminary research in the
Archives of the Diocesan Library in Sandomierz between 1 May and 30 October 2014], HM, 5, 2014, pp.
486-491.
Witalij Rosowski, Sprawozdanie [Zespołu I] z prac w dniach 1 V 2013–30 X 2014 r. r. [Report (of
Team I) on the work carried out between 1 May 2013 and 30 October 2014], HM, 5, 2014, p. 448452.
Irena Wodzianowska, Sprawozdanie [Zespołu I] z prac w dniach 1 V 2013–30 X 2014 r. r. [Report
(of Team I) on the work carried out between 1 May 2013 and 30 October 2014], HM, 5, 2014, p.
453.
Marek L. Wójcik, Sprawozdanie [Zespołu XIX] z prac nad edycją XIX-wiecznych repertoriów dokumentów
pochodzących z klasztorów skasowanych na Śląsku ze zbiorów Archiwum Państwowego we Wrocławiu
[Progress report [of Team XIX] on an edition of 19th-century repositories of documents from monasteries
dissolved in Silesia kept in the State Archives in Wrocław], HM, 5, 2014, pp. 496-498.
6.Popularisation
6.1. Lecture cycle
The Wrocław Friends of History Society, branch of the Polish Historical Society, and the City
Museum of Wrocław have prepared a cycle of lectures, delivered under the “Saturdays at the
Town Hall” series, entitled: The Birth of Modern Wrocław: the Significance of the 1810
Secularisation Edict.
The lectures are held at the Museum of Bourgeois Art, Old Town Hall, Rynek, Sala Wielka, at 12.00.
Information about the lectures, including the turnout, are available online at
http://www.wtmh.pl/, Lectures tab. Three lectures, attended by about 260 people, were held in
the analysed reporting period:
29 November 2014: Ewa Mikołajczak (Municipal Building Archives in Wrocław), Posekularyzacyjne
losy zabudowań i gruntów poklasztornych na obszarze Wyspy Piaskowej we Wrocławiu [The postsecularisation fate of former monastery buildings and land on the Sand Island in Wrocław];
13 December 2014: Maria Czyszczoń (National Heritage Institute, Wrocław Branch), Od klasztoru do
Ewangelikalnej Wyższej Szkoły Teologicznej: posekularyzacyjne losy zabudowy przy dzisiejszej ul. Świętej
Jadwigi [From a monastery to the Evangelical School of Theology: the post-dissolution fate of the buildings in
today’s ul. Świętej Jadwigi];
31 January 2015: Arkadiusz Wojtyła (Institute of Art History, University of Wrocław), Losy
zabudowań i wyposażenia dawnego klasztoru krzyżowców z czerwoną gwiazdą we Wrocławiu - obecnej
siedziby Ossolineum [The fate of the buildings and furnishings of the former Monastery of the Knights of the
Cross with the Red Star in Wrocław – currently housing the Ossolineum];
28 February 2015: Arkadiusz Wojtyła (Institute of Art History, University of Wrocław), Losy
zabudowań i wyposażenia dawnego opactwa norbertanów we Wrocławiu - obecnej siedziby Wydziału
Filologicznego UWr [The fate of the buildings and furnishings of the former Norbertine Abbey in Wrocław –
currently housing the Faculty of Philology, University of Wrocław];
28 March 2015: Maria Zwierz (Musuem of Architecture in Wrocław), Od klasztoru do Hotelu
Monopol: dzieje zabudowań po dawnym klasztorze franciszkanów (ul. H. Modrzejewskiej 2) [From a
monastery to the Monopol Hotel: the history of the buildings of the former Franciscan Monastery (ul. H.
Modrzejewskiej 2)];
25 April 2015: Agata Chmielowska (Institute of Art History, University of Wrocław, Kasata klasztoru
dominikanów a powstanie i rozwój pl. Dominikańskiego [The dissolution of the Dominican Monastery and the
emergence and growth of pl. Dominikański – Dominican Square].
7. The media about us
Marie-Madeleine de Cevins, reviewer: “Hereditas Monasteriorum”, vol. I (2012), 2 (2013) et 3 (2014).
Périodique semestriel publié par le Laboratoire de recherches sur l'histoire des congregations et ordres
religieux (LARHCOR) de l'Institut d'histoire de l'université de Wrocław, 496, 609 et 622 p., accessible en ligne
sur www.hm.kasaty.pl, “Revue Mabillon”, 25, 2014, pp. 416-417.