Żarnowiec

The village of Żarnowiec was already the property of Oliva Monastery, located near Gdansk, around 1220. Before 1235, the Oliva Monastery founded a branch for nuns of the Cistercian Order here.

According to oral tradition, in 1433 the nuns and monks of the monastery placed themselves under the protection of the city of Gdansk because of the threat of Hussite hordes fighting on the Polish side against the Teutonic Order. In 1462 the monastery was affected during the battle of Schwetzin between the Teutonic Order knights and a Polish army.

During the Reformation, the monastery was dissolved.

Later, the monastery was bought by nuns of the Benedictine Order, converted into an independent Benedictine nunnery.

During the "Prussian Kulturkampf" towards the end of the 19th century, the monastery was closed again. The monastery with its farm buildings was used as an agricultural enterprise, a state of affairs that lasted until 1945. Soon afterwards, the monastery was refounded by the Benedictine order.


The baptismal font is certainly older than the Gothic church.