-40 meters. The nearest to Abbot’s Tower was a round Music Tower with an interior diameter of 2.8 meters and an original height of at least 11-13 meters. Another tower called Kraków was located on the north side of the monastery. It served as a gate erected on a square plan with a side of 4.6 meters. Its oldest part of the walls, 1.2 meters thick, rose to a height of 14 meters. The Attic Tower was located in the north-west corner of the perimeter, on a plan similar to a square (3.4 x 3.6 meters) with a wall thickness of about 1 meter, reaching a height of 12 meters. This part was built of sandstone, while higher above the corbels there was originally a brick superstructure with machicolation, probably similar to the Abbot’s Tower. The Knight’s Tower defended the western part of the abbey. Projecting to the face of the circuit, founded on a rectangular plan with dimensions of 3 x 4 meters, served as the second gate. Based on an old woodcut, it is known that it also had an upper machicolation floor based on corbels.
The original condition of the church was violated by repeated fires and numerous early modern rebuildings. They particularly affected the gables of the chancel, transept and western façade, exchanged for baroque, then classicist and eventually replaced in the interwar period with new ones referring to the original state. The original ridge turret at the crossing of the naves has not survived, of which only the lower part remained. A 19th-century helmet was placed on its base. The cornice and window frames of the church were restored during renovation, the original ones survived in the eastern wall of the chancel, on the gable of the northern transept and in the eastern part of the southern nave. Cylindrical windows are also original, but only the western rosette has kept its tracery. The interior of the church has largely retained its original character, slightly disturbed by baroque altars and rococo stalls. In the unknown period the rib vault of the presbytery was also replaced to the cross one.
Of the monastery buildings, the eastern wing with the late romanesque chapter house, the sacristy and the adjacent treasury, and a section of the adjoining cloister are best preserved. Only one outer wall and basement have survived from the southern wing, built in the 16th century. There is also a west wing in the ruin from which only the basement has survived. The hallmark of the today abbey are its 15th / 16th century fortifications, although some of the upper parts of the towers were transformed in the early modern period (Kraków, Attic, Music towers) or deprived of them (Knight’s Tower).
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