Abstract

From the abolition in 1819, the Cistercian abbey in Ląd an Warta had three different gardens. The monastery garden lay on the south side of the monastery, on the Warta Canal and on the island between the canal and the river bank (Fig. 2). The abbey garden was laid out at the abbey palace in the second half of the 16th century. It lay on the slope on the east side of the monastery and church (Fig. 4). The art garden with the fountain was located in the center of the monastery (Fig. 6). After the abolition, all gardens were destroyed. A part of the abbey garden was joined with an outwork created at the beginning of the 19th century. In 1850 the Capuchins took over the monastery and the church and renovated them. The Capuchins also renovated the gardens. At that time a park was created on the square in front of the church. The church and monastery plan from 1865 shows the garden and park after the Capuchin monastery was closed by the Tsarist government (Fig. 1). At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries the abbey palace and other outbuildings of the monastery were demolished. The old function of the former garden was restored by the Salesians who arrived in Ląd in 1921. In 2008, the project of renewal and management of the park and gardens in the former Cistercian abbey in Ląd an Warta was commissioned by the Salesian Province of St. Wojciech. The founders of this project are Aneta Jarosińska-Krokowska and Janusz Nowiński (Fig. 9). New management and reconstruction of the former and current gardens of the monastery in Ląd with new recreational, educational and economic functions are planned.