Baszta Krakowska

The defensive monastery in Sulejów with the church, buildings and their relics as well as fortifications and the area of ​​old gardens is one of the most valuable Polish monuments of high artistic rank as well as historical and scientific values. It is characterized by the authenticity of the historic substance and the durability of the historical cultural landscape. In addition to Jędrzejów, Koprzywnica and Wąchock, it belongs to a group of twelfth-century Małopolska abbeys that are direct branches of the French Cistercian monastery in Morimond, probably founded in connection with planned missionary actions in Russia. Sulejów is the only Cistercian fortified stronghold in Poland with such well-preserved and strongly developed monastic fortifications. Particular artistic value is the monastery church dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint. Tomasz Kantuaryjskiego. This temple illustrates the turn of the ages in the history of art, as it is a perfect example of the transition of the late Romanesque style, preserved in architectural detail and sculpture in the early Gothic style, manifested in the application of the cross-rib vault. The raw and modest interior of the church is perfectly complemented by modern marble and alabaster altars, organ prospect, pulpit and stalls. The shape of the monastery church has been preserved in its original shape. The building is a three-aisled basilica with a transept and a rectangular presbytery. The intersection of the nave with the transept in the roof part is accentuated by the Baroque signature. The nave of the church is covered with a cross-ribbed vault (in the presbytery part, a vault from the nineteenth century). The main entrance to the church is located within the western facade. The fault portal located there decorates columns with archivolts and a semicircular tympanum. Above the portal house there is a rosette with a partially preserved tracery. The façade is topped with a triangular top. The church's furnishings include four early Baroque side altars of black marble and alabaster, an organ prospectus with a rich woodcarving from the 18th century, and a wooden main altar, four side altars, a pulpit, stalls and confessionals founded in the 18th century. The monastery was adjacent to the church from the south. The church and monastery are surrounded by a ring of late Gothic fortifications, which have been preserved in the form of long sections of the curtain wall up to 4 m high, towers ("opackiej", "Moorish", "knight", "attic", "musical", "Krakow"), building of the arsenal (called "armory"). In the western corner of the foundation, the wall was merged with commercial buildings, and in the northern part - buildings that in the 1970s were partially reconstructed and converted into a hotel resort. The abbey's buildings represent various architectural styles, starting with the late Romanesque church and the eastern wing of the monastery from the first half of the 12th century, through elements from the 15th-17th century. Podklasztorze is one of the first places in Poland where gothic appeared, as the Cistercians were the pioneers of this style . The monastery houses the Museum in Sulejów-Podklasztorze, in the exposition of which you can see fragments of architectural details found in the abbey, sculptures, paintings and liturgical equipment.

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