Trzebnica

Trzebnica is a metropolis in Lower Silesian Voivodeship in south-western Poland. It is the seat of Trzebnica County, and of the smaller administrative district referred to as Gmina Trzebnica. The city lies in the eastern Trzebnickie Hills in the historical Lower Silesia vicinity, about 20 kilometres north of the local capital Wrocław. As at 2010, it has a population of 12,460. In 2017, the city changed into the co-host of the World Games. In the 12^th century, the place changed into most of the possessions of the Premonstratensian St. Vincent monastery at Wrocław.

Trzebnica itself turned into first stated in an 1138 deed, then held via the Polish voivode Peter Wlast and later seized through the Silesian duke Władyslaw II the Exile. In 1202 Władysław's grandson Duke Henry I the Bearded of Silesia and his spouse Hedwig of Andechs based a Cistercian convent, present-day Sanctuary of St. Jadwiga in Trzebnica, the primary in Poland.

The couple signed the deed of donation on 23 June 1203 inside the presence of Hedwig's brother Ekbert Bishop of Bamberg; the monastery turned into settled with German nuns descending from Bamberg in Franconia. In 1218 Hedwig's daughter Gertrude have become abbess of Trzebnica, the first of many Piast princesses to preserve this office. After Duke Henry died in 1238 and become buried within the church, his widow moved to the Cistercian convent which via now changed into led by means of her daughter.