Metten monastery library

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The Metten Monastery Library is the library of the Metten Monastery with around 200,000 volumes.

history

The beginning of the old library was probably in 1265. Around 1400 there was also a scriptorium here . The library room was built under Abbot Johannes Nablas (around 1600). After the Gothic collegiate church was rebuilt in Baroque style under Abbot Roman II. Märkl around 1726, the library was furnished in the late Baroque style.

With the secularization in Bavaria in 1803, the library was dissolved.

With the rebuilding of the monastery, the Regensburg Bishop Johann Michael Sailer laid the foundation stone for the new library with a book dedication on April 1, 1830. Only about 300 volumes of the old Metten holdings were returned. In addition to the estate of the former Benedictine Father Amandus Hoecker, the remainder of the holdings from the Abbey ofprüfung (1842) and the state allocation of around 4,000 volumes from dissolved monastery libraries in the Swabian region formed the basis. The holdings were re-cataloged between 1915 and 1925.

The library today

The total number of holdings is an estimated 200,000 volumes. Among them are

  • approx. 20,000 volumes from before 1800,
  • around 20,000 school programs from the years 1830–1920,
  • over 300 autographs ,
  • 43 manuscripts and 82 manuscripts in fragments,
  • approx. 10,000 units of music manuscripts and prints.

The monastery library can be visited as part of a guided tour.

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Coordinates: 48 ° 51 '20.4 "  N , 12 ° 55' 6.3"  E