Gamelbert of Michaelsbuch

The Blessed Gamelbert was a Christian priest, who worked in the 8th century in what is now Stephansposching, Bavaria, Germany.

However, he preferred to herd his father's flocks, because in the peaceful stillness of the fields and forests he could turn his mind to prayer and meditation.

After the death of his parents, he used his inheritance to establish a parish on property he owned in Michaelsbuch.

Gamelbert acquired from Duke Tassilo III a piece of woodland on the opposite bank of the Danube between Mariaposching and Deggendorf, for which he had to pay a tax known as the Medema.

In 766 he cleared the land and founded the Benedictine Metten Abbey in Lower Bavaria, not far from Michaelsbuch.

[4] In 2017 five graves of Christians from about the 8th to 12th century were discovered during an archaeological dig at a construction site in Michaelsbuch.