Metten Abbey

In 1846 Boniface Wimmer left from Metten to establish the Benedictines in the United States and founded Saint Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.

During World War II, more than 1,000 refugees from the East found shelter at Metten, located just 30 miles from the Czechoslovak border.

[2] "The last days of the war saw heavy fighting for the nearby bridges on the Danube, where SS troops held out against approaching U.S. forces.

Dom Edmund Beck, a monk of Metten, edited many of the Syriac works of Saint Ephrem the Syrian in the Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium.

[6] Notable alumni include educationist Aloys Fischer, diplomat Karl von Spreti,[7] and prelate Karl-Josef Cardinal Rauber.

Because so many monastic libraries had been confiscated, the monks found old manuscripts and early printed books on the market at reasonable prices.

[5] A 1415 manuscript found in the abbey's library helped identify the meaning of the abbreviations for the Vade retro satana (Step back Satan) formula that appears on Saint Benedict Medals.

Engraving of Metten Abbey from the "Churbaierisches Atlas" of Anton Wilhelm Ertl , 1687
Erzengel Michael, Kloster Metten
Klosterbibliothek Metten
Image of Saint Benedict with a cross and a scroll stating Vade retro satana based on the last page of the 1415 book found in the Metten Abbey library.