The Cistercian monastery in Henrykuve - the baroque abbey with the church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. John the Baptist, located in the Lower Silesia. This Cistercian monastery is one of the most beautiful baroque buildings in the Silesia. Abbey operates today, is the Polish shrine.

The origin of the monastery dates back to 1222, when Prince Henry the Bearded received local land under its control. Construction continued under Henry II pious, which meant that the abbey was under the full patronage of the princes of Silesia. The first monks settled in the monastery in May 1227, and a year later took place the consecration of the wooden church. In 1304, construction began on a new Gothic church and monastery. In addition, it organized cemetery.

Hussite Wars the monastery brought misfortune: the building was burnt down and the monks fled to Wroclaw. Later, the abbey suffered from the Czech king in 1459. After the Thirty Years War began the rapid development of the monastery. The church was rebuilt in Baroque style. The altar was set up in 1684 the famous painter Michael Wilman.

During the war between Prussia and Austria's 1741-1762 slowed the development of the abbey. The monastery has repeatedly housed troops plundered the religious treasures. In 1801, the Prussian authorities closed schools and took over the monastery library with a rich collection of books in 20,000 volumes. In 1810 the Prussian King Frederick William III of the monastery closed after 582 years of its existence. Later, in a building of the abbey it was open elite clinic for the mentally ill. During the Third Reich in the monastery it was organized by a military factory. At the end of the war the monastery was looted and destroyed.

In 1949, the Abbey back in the hands of the Cistercians, and in 1990 it became the property of the Archbishop of Wroclaw. Currently, it employs a Catholic high school.