Summary Page:  Former House

Name: Dorlar, B.M.V.

Circary at the Time:  Westfalia

Years of Activity:  1297 - ?/1540

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Map:  Click Here (Source:  © MapQuest  http://www.mapquest.com)

URL:  http://www.praemonstratenser.de/63.html

Monasticon Praemonstratense (I, 160)

Approximate modern location:  In Lahnau-Dorlar, between Giessen and Wetzlar, on the river Lahn, Germany.  

Elm-Number [See below]:  None. 

Other Comments:  Parthenon, initially.  After 1437, because of its total collapse, it was transformed into a Priory dependent upon Rommersdorf.  Today, the Church survives as a protestant parish church.  

* 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, Kirchenfürst, Wienand Verlag, Köln, 1984, page 328-329.