Kolbacz
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(correctly Kołbacz)
Seat of cistersian convent near Szczecin, Poland. Located on the west bank of Płonia river in 1173. In sources known as Colbatz, Kolbatz, Colbas, sometimes Mera Vallis which means Bright Valley. Secularised in 1535. Later summer residence of Szczecin dukes. After 1720 in Prussia. Since 1945 in Poland. After that it was big agricultural farm.
There are remnants of cistercian abbey - romanesque-gothic church, dom konwersów, abbot's house, gothic barn and fortification turret. [[1] (http://www.muryobronne.republika.pl/kolbacz/kolbacz.html)]