Summary Page:  Former House

Name: Lauffen, St. Johannes Bapt. 

Circary at the Time: Suevia

Years of Activity: Saec. 10, 1476 - 1521

Gallery:   Click Here

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

URL:  http://www.praemonstratenser.de/27.html 

Monasticon Praemonstratense (I, 74)

Approximate modern location: In Württemberg, southwest of Heilbronn, on the banks of Neckar river, now called Lauffen am Neckar. 

Elm-Number [See below]: None*

Other Comments: Parthenon, founded at Adelberg, to which the sisters were transferred in 1476.  It was suppressed in 1553.  See Monasticon Praemonstratense (above) for detail.  

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* 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.