Ląd Abbey

Many possessions were sold off, and in 1796, the abbey saw most of its land holdings confiscated for an annual cash payment by the government of the Prussia, which annexed the village in the Second Partition of Poland in 1793.

Shifting borders saw Ląd return to Polish rule under the short-lived Duchy of Warsaw in 1807, and then in 1815 pass under the Russian Partition, which dissolved the monastery in 1819.

In 1822 the monastery was acquired by Count Wacław Gutakowski, who arranged for the abbey to pass to Capuchins from Warsaw and for the restoration and furnishing of both the church and cloister.

During the occupation of Poland in World War II, the Salesians were forced to evacuate the cloister and the church was shuttered.

From 1939 to 1941, the abbey was used as a transitional prison for priests, primarily from the Diocese of Włocławek (see: Nazi persecution of the Catholic Church in Poland).

A charter dated 17 June 1241, in which Duke Casimir I of Kuyavia gives to abbot Jan and the Cistercian monastery of Ląd the villages of Głowiew and Wrąbczyn and confirms upon both villages the same immunities that he had given to other villages belonging to the monastery
Charter dated 10 December 1261, in which Duke Bolesław V the Chaste confirms the earlier privileges given to the monastery by Mieszko III the Old in 1145