Szlaki województw śląskiego i opolskiego

In the former Cistercian abbey in Jemielnca, next to today's parish church (post-abbey church) and the legendary chapel of St. Adalbert, there is a memorial to an extraordinary monk. Johannes Nucius lived in the years 1556-1620 and is considered one of the most outstanding representatives of Silesian musical culture at the turn of the Renaissance and Baroque periods. He took monastic vows at the abbey in Rudy, and from 1591 to 1620 he served as abbot of the Jemielnca monastery. He held this office until his death -- he died in March 1620 and was buried in the church, near the main altar. Although in his lifetime he did not gain wide fame as a creator, he left behind an important theoretical and compositional legacy. He is most famous for his treatise Musices Poeticae (1613) on the practice of composition in the early seventeenth century, which was one of the key musical works in the transitional period from Renaissance to Baroque. Most of Nucius's manuscripts have not been preserved; they were destroyed during fires of the Jemielnca monastery in 1617 and 1733. Associated with the Cistercian monastery was also another outstanding composer of Baroque music -- prior Ludwik Bergel.