Poles

‘Our image of Wrocław is usually shaped by its bridges, buildings, islands and layers of memory. Less attention is paid to another, much older way of tracing the history of the city and the region: the changing boundaries of the Diocese of Wrocław. Those boundaries shifted along with those of states, yet the Church helped preserve a sense of continuity. Without Ostrów Tumski, the cathedral and the people of the Wrocław Church, it is impossible to understand either the city’s past or its post-war identity and future’.