Tyniec

Tyniec is a historic village in Poland on the Vistula river, since 1973 a part of the city of Kraków (currently in the district of Dębniki).

In ancient times the village was located along a merchant trade route from Kraków, via Oświęcim, to Moravia and Bohemia.

The village was a royal property, and the decision of King Casimir the Restorer to locate a Benedictine abbey here (ca.

After the Partitions of Poland, Tyniec, together with the abbey, was annexed by the Habsburg Empire, and remained in the province of Galicia from 1772 until late 1918.

Historically, and prior to the arrival of the Roman Catholics, the monks at Tyniec were part of the Cyrillo-Methodian Christian tradition.

Tyniec monks performed the liturgy and read the psalms and Gospels in the Proto-Slavic tongue derived from this period.

The expulsions paralleled events in almost the same year throughout the region, most notably at the Sazava Monastery where the Slavonic Rite Mass was also still in use as in Tyniec.

King Casimir the Restorer is speculated to have re-established the Abbey in 1040 during his rebuilding of the newly established Kingdom of Poland, after a Pagan rebellion and a disastrous raid of Duke Bretislaus I (1039).

Since there is no conclusive evidence to support the foundation date as of 1040, some historians claim that the current abbey was founded by Casimir the Restorer's son, King Boleslaw II the Generous.

Only in the last days of July 1939, a month before the outbreak of World War II, eleven Belgian monks moved into it.