Monastery St. Michael Review

Metten Abbey There are many names: St. Michael's Monastery, Benediktinerabtei Metten, Abtei Metten and Kloster Metten. For Chinese tourists, just remember St. Michael's Monastery is enough. It was founded in 766 in Bavaria and it is located in a dreamy area between the Bavarian forests and the Danube. The monastery underwent a series of changes before secularization in 1803 and then became a monastery again before 1830, but today the monastery has many sources of income, such as gymnasiums and restaurants. Inside is an elegant banquet hall of 1734, a restaurant with modern stained glass windows, a ceiling fresco of 1755 and a legendary Baroque library. Visitors can see the fables of wisdom and religion hidden from the ceiling. Enjoy the elaborate plaster decoration and a large number of bookshelves with 3.5million copies, especially important, from 1437 Mettener Antiphonar all the songs lyrics and melodies. For literary lovers, it is a treasure of history and literature.