Prüm

Prüm was a Benedictine imperial abbey in the Eifel. Its protectors were the lords of Schönecken, descended from the counts of Vianden.

The abbots resisted absorption by Trier and fought its archbishop in 1511. After Abbot Christopher of Manderscheid died in 1576, the archbishops became perpetual administrators. French troops occupied Prüm in 1794; the abbey was secularized and its estates sold in 1801, and its lands passed to Prussia in 1815.