Summary Page:  Former House

Name: Merzig, St. Peter

Circary at the Time: Vadegotia

Years of Activity:  1152 (O.S.A.); 1156-1802

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

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.