Fraulautern Abbey (german: Abtei Fraulautern; la, Abbatia in Lutrea) was a community of Augustinian

canonesses Canoness is a member of a religious community of women living a simple life. Many communities observe the monastic Rule of St. Augustine. The name corresponds to the male equivalent, a canon. The origin and Rule are common to both. As with the c ...

of the nobility, founded in the 12th century; it was suppressed in the 1790s during the

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Abbey buildings

The abbey buildings, which are still extant in part, are located in Fraulautern, now part of Saarlouis in

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, Germany. Between the French Revolution and 1936, when Fraulautern was incorporated into Saarlouis (then known as Saarlautern), the buildings were used as the town hall. They are now used by the '' Grundschule'' of Fraulautern under the name "Im Alten Kloster".

Abbesses

From R. Rudolf Rehanek:R. Rudolf Rehanek: Geschichte der Kreisstadt Saarlouis, Band 1: Die hochadelige Frauenabtei und das Dorf Fraulautern, (Saarlouis 1978), p. 129–130. * c. 1160: Margarethe * 1169–1197: ? * c. 1225: Meisterin J. * 1225–1236: ? * 1241: Berta * 1260: Jutta * 1262–1269: ? * 1269–1279: Gertrud * 1289: Elsa * 1296: Havils Nonneyer * 1299, 1303: Mathilde von Herbitzheim * 1308–1312: Hanvela * 1312–1335: Elisabeth von Saarbrücken * 1353–1344: Hildegarde * 1344: Esebet * 1354: ? * 1357–1373: Gudela * 1395: Aleyt von Castel * 1403: Lysa von der Neuerburg * 1406, 1443: Katharina von Wolfstein * 1448–1472: Margarethe von Huntingen * 1472–1492: Katharina von Bettingen * 1492–1507: Eva Huberissen von Schellodenbach (Schallodenbach) * 1507–1522: Margarethe von Wolfstein / Gertrud Brederin von Hohenstein * 1550–1560: Hildegard von Becheln * 1565–1587: Margarethe von Bübingen / Apollonia von Gressnich * 1587–1598: Apollonia von Gressnich / Agnes Braun von Schmidtburg * 1617–1622: Johanetta von Wiltz * 1622–1626: Anna Maria von Geispoltzheim * 1626–1633: Gabriele de Braubach * 1646–1677: Dorothea Braun von Schmidtburg * 1677–1691: Carolina von Hagen * 1691–1695: Arnolda Elisabeth von Weller * 1700: Odilia Braun von Schmidtburg * 1708: A. E. von Metzenhausen * 1720–1730: A. M. von Geispitzheim * 1730–1757: Maria Theresia de Saintignon * 1757–1773: Maria Helene von Rathsamshausen * 1773–1791: Sophie von Neuenstein Fraulautern Klosterhof pano

References

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