The ruling of prince Henry the Bearded was a time of intense colonisation of the Silesia according to the German law. The ruler who came to this land which appeared to be “emerging from the wilderness” undertook a number of ventures targeted at developing and modernizing the economy in his state. One of such actions was the establishment of monasteries and providing them with wastelands on which new settlements were to be formed. This concept also encompasses the funding by prince Henry the Bearded and his wife, Duchess Hedwig of a monastery (initially a provostry) of regular canons of the rule of Saint Augustine in Nowogród Bobrzański (before 1219). The Nowogród canons obtained land in the region of Nowogród along with 200 hides of forests and wastelands in the Lubuski land for further development. The canons turned out to be good hosts, having fulfilled the ducal intention related to melioratio terrae. Villages, mills, gardens, vineyards were formed on lands gifted to the canon comm