Mogilno

Mogilno lies near the historical border of Greater Poland and Kuyavia, beside a lake. A Benedictine abbey founded in the eleventh century became the focus of a settlement to its north. King Władysław II Jagiełło granted the town its charter in 1398; Mogilno remained abbey property until 1773.

The abbey church preserves parts of its Romanesque structure, although it was rebuilt in later centuries, including the sixteenth and eighteenth. After the First Partition of Poland in 1772, Mogilno passed to Prussia. It was included in the Duchy of Warsaw after 1806 and returned to Prussia in 1815.