Name: Merzig, St. Peter
Circary at the Time: Vadegotia
Years of Activity: 1152 (O.S.A.); 1156-1802
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Monasticon Praemonstratense (I, 119)
Approximate modern location: Between Trier and Saarbrücken on the River Saar.
Elm-Number [See below]: None.*
Other Comments: Was a dependent house of the Abbey of Wadgassen. The Church remains today as a parish church. The cloister remnant is the Rectory.
* This listing (and the numbers, with a few adjustments after 1995) is based on the map contained in Kaspar Elm's Norbert von Xanten: Adliger, Ordensstifter, Kirchenfuerst, Wienand Verlag, Koeln, 1984, page 284-285.