Summary Page:  Former House

Name: Veßra, St. Joannes Evan.

Circary at the Time: Ilfeldia

Years of Activity: 1131/35-1573

Gallery:  Click Here

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

URL:  http://www.praemonstratenser.de/160.html 

Monasticon Praemonstratense (I, 138)

Approximate modern location:  Southeast of Themar, Meiningen.  The village is called Kloster Vessra today, and it is northeast of Trostadt, another village of interest to our Order.  

Elm-Number [See below]: 260*

Other Comments: A celebrated abbey which is now an open air museum.  


* 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.