Summary Page:  Former House

Name: Hermannstadt / Nagyszeben

Circary at the Time: Hungaria

Years of Activity: saec. 13 - 1241 (?)

Gallery: (none)

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

Monasticon Praemonstratense: (I, 441)

Approximate modern location: Near the city of Sibiu (Romanian) or Nagyszeben (Hungarian) in the Transylvanian region of Romania.  

Elm-Number [See below]: None.*

Other Comments: A parthenon founded in this area probably by immigrants from Saxony or Westphalia.  It was probably destroyed by the Mongol invasion of Hungary in 1241.


* 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.