Summary Page:  Former House

Name: Plocko / Plock, S. Maria Magdalena

Circary at the Time: Polonia

Years of Activity: 1160/79-saec.14

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Monasticon Praemonstratense (I, 344)

Approximate modern location: In the city of the same name, Masov district of Poland

Elm-Number [See below]: 374*

Other Comments: 

• This house was never the location for the Cathedral Canons, as has sometimes been asserted by scholars.  

• We are most grateful to Dr. Joanna Szczesna of the Catholic University of Poland for the following comments:  "In Plock, all of the medieval buildings of this cloister were destroyed by the power of nature.  They were erected high on a bluff along the Vistula, but the river bank suddenly collapsed, taking the buildings with them.  The surviving nuns were then removed to another house."

* 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.