Summary Page: Current House
Name: Tepla, B.M.V.
Circary: Bohemia
Diocese: Diocese of Pilsen
Additional Address information
Map: Click Here (Source: © MapQuest http://www.mapquest.com)
URL: http://www.klastertepla.cz
Monasticon Praemonstratense: (no citation)
Elm Number: 309*
History:
Southwest of Prague, fairly close to the border with Germany. Founded in 1193 by Blessed Hroznata. Daughter house of Strahov Abbey. After the fall of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia in 1989/1990, this monastery - Tepla - was reoccupied by a norbertine community.
* 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.