Fraulautern Abbey (German: Abtei Fraulautern; Latin: Abbatia in Lutrea) was a community of Augustiniancanonesses of the nobility, founded in the 12th century; it was suppressed in the 1790s during the French Revolution.
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Fraulautern Abbey, 1865, with in the foreground the new railway line on the Saar, on the left the abbey mill (Klostermühle), in the middle the Baroque abbey church, on the right the gatehouse
The abbey buildings, which are still extant in part, are located in Fraulautern, now part of Saarlouis in Saarland, 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".[1][2][3]
Bernhard Kirsch: Artikel "Warum heißt die Saar "Saar" oder wer war vor den Kelten da?", in: Unsere Heimat, Mitteilungsblatt des Landkreises Saarlouis für Kultur und Landschaft, 41. Jahrgang, Heft Nr. 2, 2016, p.45–56, hier S. 49.
Saarforschungsgemeinschaft (Hrsg.): Die Kunstdenkmäler der Kreise Ottweiler und Saarlouis, bearbeitet von Walter Zimmermann, 2., unveränderte Auflage von 1934, (Saarbrücken 1976), p.191.