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Metten Abbey

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Metten Abbey

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    1. Metten Abbey – Danube Riverside at Sunset loop from Himmelreich

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    Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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    Intermediate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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    January 25, 2020

    Metten Monastery is one of the original Bavarian monasteries and was founded around the year 766. In addition to the well-known baroque monastery library, the abbey church is also worth seeing. The building from the Carolingian era was followed by a Gothic hall church in the 15th century. The choir has been preserved from her. From 1712 to 1729 the church was redesigned in Baroque style under Abbot Roman II Märkl according to plans by Jakob Ruesch. The interior was stuccoed in 1722 by Franz Josef Holzinger. Wolfgang Andreas Heindl created the frescoes for the vestibule and the nave. The high altar by Jakob Schöpf from 1713 has a painting by Cosmas Damian Asam showing the Archangel Michael (around 1715). Asam also made the picture of the rosary altar (around 1726 to 1730).

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      January 7, 2020

      The area of approx. 5500 sqm in the center of Metten revives the tradition of late baroque pleasure gardens in Lower Bavarian monasteries and serves the visitor as a place of rest and reflection.

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        January 7, 2020

        The monastery runs a high school with boarding school and various handicraft businesses (e.g. laundry, bookbinding, electricity, carpentry, locksmithing, monastery gardening, etc.).

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          Location: Metten, Deggendorf, Lower Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany

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