Kasata klasztoru kartuzów w Gidlach
The dissolution of the Carthusian monastery in Gidle

Summary/Abstract: The charterhouse in Gidle founded in 1641-1642, a subsidiary of the charterhouse Paradise of Mary in the Eastern Pomerania (presently Kartuzy) was dissolved by the bull Ex imposita Nobis of Pius VII from 30th June 1818 and the executive decree of 17th April 1819. Despite the protests of the last prior, A. Grabowski, the dissolution was completed on 23rd June 1819, when the cassation committee came to Gidle, took over the property and the equipment of the church and monastery, leasing them to the remaining there Carthusians (four priests and two brothers; additionally the monastery was resided by the verger, cook, fisherman, and the gardener) for a period of one year. On the 7th July 1819, Samuel Bogumił Linde came to Gidle, taking over the monastic book collection. Despite the efforts, the Charterhouse revival has failed. After the death of the prior Grabowski, who stayed in the convent until the end of his days, the livestock was sold, and part of the equipment plundered. The monastery was demolished, and the church was sealed. The plans of its demolishion caused that in 1877 it came back to interest again, and in 1879 it was decided to give it for the purposes of the parish. Supplementing the article are the inventories of the monastery and church equipment (including liturgical devices), the summary of the archive contents from the period of dissolution, and two descriptions of the church and its equipment from 1832 and 1877.

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