Summary Page: Former House
Name: Tommarp, Ss. Peter and Paul
Circary at the Time: Dania et Norvegia
Years of Activity: ca. 1155-1532/40
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Monasticon Praemonstratense (I, 270)
Approximate modern location: Scania, southern Sweden, inland from Simrishamn, not far from the village of Östra Tommarp.
Elm-Number [See below]: 56*
Other Comments: Tommarp had a reputation as a very wealthy and renowned abbey. Today it is reduced to a few ruins in an archaeological park across a small road from the cemetery of the town 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.