Trzemeszno

Trzemeszno lies beside Lake Popielewskie in Greater Poland, on a historical route linking the region with northern Masovia and Pomerelia. In the twelfth century it became the property of a monastery of Augustinian canons regular, and it received town rights before 1382. The town declined after the Swedish invasion and plagues of the seventeenth century.

Under Abbot Michał Kosmowski, who led the monastery from 1761 to 1804, new suburbs were established for cloth makers and other craftsmen. He also founded a secondary school and hospital, while the monastery church was rebuilt in Baroque style and consecrated in 1791. Prussia annexed Trzemeszno in the Second Partition of Poland in 1793, and the monastery was secularized in 1836.