Travel Guide Legnickie Pole

This small village, located 11 km south of Legnica, is famous throughout Poland for the battle that opposed, in 1241, Poles and Tatars. It has an interesting museum retracing the history of the battle, as well as a beautiful church. After the battle that led to the death of Henry II the Pious, the Polish ruler, his mother Edwige founded a monastery of the Order of St. Benedict here. During the Protestant Reformation, this monastery was confiscated by the Duke of Legnica in 1535; it was only in 1719 that the Benedictines of the Broumov Abbey regained possession of the property and began to rebuild the monastery, which is still occupied.