A HAUS SCHLESIEN exhibition in the baroque monastery complex in Leubus, Lower Silesia, is dedicated to special places of remembrance. It presents a selection of important churches and their funerary monuments in Silesia and aims to encourage visitors to make their own excursions to these special sites.
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In the restored rooms of the prelature of the Cistercian monastery, HAUS SCHLESIEN presents the exhibition "Schlesische Grabkunst" ("Funerary Art"), which displays an exemplary selection of very special places of remembrance: churches and their funerary monuments. Silesia is home to many hidden cultural monuments. Among the unknown art treasures in hundreds of churches all over the country are magnificent funeral monuments. Even the Piast dukes founded monasteries, and it was there that they were buried in tombs befitting their elevated social status. Until the last century, the rural nobility often held the ecclesiastical patronage. Many remote country churches give the impression of richly furnished mausoleums. Over 1,000 full-length epitaphs made of sandstone have been preserved. Some of them are painted in color and have been placed in decorative frames. Most of them date back to the 16th and 17th century.
Look into the exhibition 'Silesian funerary art' by HAUS SCHLESIEN at Lubiąż Abbey. Bernadett Fischer / HAUS SCHLESIEN, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Look into the exhibition 'Silesian funerary art' by HAUS SCHLESIEN at Lubiąż Abbey. Bernadett Fischer / HAUS SCHLESIEN, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
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