Summary Page: Current House
Name: Nová Rise, Ss. Peter and Paul
Circary: Bohemia
Diocese: Brno
Additional Address information
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URL: http://www.klaster.novarise.cz/
Monasticon Praemonstratense (I, 302)
Elm Number: 314*
History:
West of Brno, south of Jihlava. Founded as a Norbertine nunnery around 1211. Converted into a self-governing canonry around the year 1596. In 1733 was raised to the status of Abbey.
* 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.