Summary Page:  Former House

Name: Wadgassen, B.M.V.

Circary at the Time: Vadegotia

Years of Activity: 1135-1792

Gallery:   Click Here

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

URL:   http://www.praemonstratenser.de/10.html 

Monasticon Praemonstratense (I, 116)

Approximate modern location: Southeast of Saarlouis, and northwest of Saarbrücken, Just northwest of Völklingen, Saarland, Germany.  

Elm-Number [See below]: 267*

Other Comments:  One of the greatest German abbeys.  Head of this Circary.  Today, all that remains has been converted to buildings in a ceramics factory.  

* 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.