Summary Page:  Former House

Name: Cappenberg, B.M.V. and S. Joann. Evang.

Circary at the Time: Westfalia

Years of Activity: 1122-1803

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

URL:   http://www.praemonstratenser.de/101.html 

Monasticon Praemonstratense (I, 158)

Approximate modern location: On a mountain northeast of Lünen, between Dortmund and Münster, Westfalia, Germany.

Elm-Number [See below]: 98*

Other Comments: The monastery buildings were incorporated into a castle, and the Abbey Church remains a 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.