Summary Page: Former House

Name: Houthem, S. Gerlac

Circary at the Time: Westfalia

Years of Activity: ca. 1172-ca. 1232 (-1786)

Gallery:  Click Here

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

URL:   http://www.st-gerlach.nl 

Monasticon Praemonstratense (I, 171)

Approximate modern location:  Northeast of Maastricht in Limburg Province, Netherlands.  

Elm-Number [See below]: 103*

Other Comments:  The church of Houthem, which was a great center of pilgrimage to S. Gerlac, is now a parish church. 


* 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.