Metten

Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Lower Bavaria
County :	Deggendorf
Height :	315 m above sea level NHN
Area :	11.96 km 2
Residents:	4222 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	353 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	94526
Area code :	0991
License plate :	DEG
Community key :	09 2 71 132
LOCODE :	DE TTD
Market structure:	19 districts
; Market administration address :	Krankenhausstrasse 22 ; 94526 Metten
Website :	www.markt-metten.de
Mayor :	Andreas Moser ( FW )
Location of the Metten market in the Deggendorf district

360 ° panorama of Metten Show
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Metten is a market about five kilometers west of Deggendorf in the Lower Bavarian district of Deggendorf and is located on the Danube .

geography

Geographical location

Metten is located in the Danube Forest planning region on the left bank of the Danube , where the foothills of the Bavarian Forest merge into the Danube plain .

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are Offenberg , Bernried , Grafling , Deggendorf and on the other side of the Danube Stephansposching .

Community structure

Parts of the municipality are: Berg , Frauenmühle , Hochwald , Hochwiese, Hohenstein , Kälberweid, Kleinberg , Lehmberg , Metten , Mettenbuch , Oberdachsbühl, Obermettenwald, Paulusberg , Randholz, Riedfeld , Sandgrube , Schaltbach , Untermettenwald, Uttobrunn , Wimpassing and Zeitldorf .

climate

Due to its location in Central Europe , the Metten market is in the cool temperate climate zone with winter hardiness 6–7. The market lies in the transition area between the humid Atlantic and the dry continental climate .

Average temperature and precipitation values

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Max. Temperature ( ° C )	1	4th	9	14th	20th	22nd	24	24	19th	13	6th	2	O	13.2
Min. Temperature (° C)	−4	−3	0	4th	8th	11	13	13	9	5	1	−2	O	4.6

Precipitation ( mm )	44.8	45.8	54.4	38.2	71.8	72.8	81.8	63.6	65.1	54.0	55.3	48.0	Σ	695.6

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N i e d e r s c h l a g	44.8	45.8	54.4	38.2	71.8	72.8	81.8	63.6	65.1	54.0	55.3	48.0
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Source: MSN Weather - Metten, DEU

history

Until the church is planted

Metten, monastery church

Metten Abbey

The Benedictine Abbey of St. Michael in Metten was founded around 766 and had been a royal monastery since 788. The place belonging to the monastery received in 1051 from Emperor Heinrich III. the right to hold a fair on the (then) three days of Pentecost and the feast of St. Michael with customs, ban and compulsion. Metten became part of the Duchy of Bavaria again after 1246, but formed a closed Hofmark under the local rule of the monastery until the secularization in Bavaria in 1803 . Based on the parish edict of 1818, Metten became an independent parish in 1818.

19th and 20th centuries

At the head of the community was a community leader who presided over the community committee. The community leader and the community representatives were elected every three years indirectly (electoral system). In 1830 the monastery was rebuilt.

An alleged miracle healing in the hamlet of Mettenbuch in the spring of 1877 swelled the flow of pilgrims that had arisen on the basis of the descriptions of “miraculous-faced children”: over 100,000 pilgrims came over the year. Without church recognition, the Mettenbuch pilgrimage to the forest chapel of the “Comforter of the Sorrowful” lives on on a small scale to this day.

After the Second World War, the town of Metten experienced a sharp increase in population due to displaced persons and was promoted to market in 1966.

Population development

In the period from 1988 to 2018, the market grew from 3,711 to 4,180 by 469 inhabitants or 12.6%.

year	1970	1987	1991	1995	2000	2005	2010	2015	2018
Residents	3154	3680	3881	3915	4104	4359	4377	4219	4187

politics

Market council

The local elections on March 15, 2020 (and by comparison the 2014 elections) resulted in the following distribution of seats:

		FWG	CSU	SPD	Green	total
2020	Seats	7th	5	2	2	16
2020	Share of votes	42.0%	32.7%	13.1%	12.2%	100%
2014	Seats	5	8th	4th	-	17th
2014	Share of votes	22.6%	53.0%	24.4%	-	100%

mayor

The first mayor has been Andreas Moser (Free Voters, brother of Deggendorf's Lord Mayor Christian Moser ) since May 2020 . He was elected in the local elections on March 15, 2020 in the first ballot with 52.14 percent (1216 of 2332 votes).

Erhard Radlmaier ( CSU ) held office until 2020 . He was the successor of Ludwig Schmid ( SPD ) in 2002 and was confirmed in office in the local elections in March 2008 and 2014 with 78.51% of the votes cast.

coat of arms

	Blazon : “Split by gold and blue; in front two diagonally crossed black stick hammers, behind a silver heraldic lily. " The coat of arms has been used since 1962.

Town twinning

Austria Austria : The market town of Rossatz-Arnsdorf has been Metten's partner municipality since 1999 .

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Panoramic view over Metten (view from Sickerberg)

Architectural monuments

Economy and Infrastructure

Jobs and agriculture

In 2017 there were 881 jobs subject to social security contributions in the municipality. Of the resident population, 1622 people were in an employment relationship subject to compulsory insurance. This means that the number of out-commuters was 741 greater than that of in-commuters. 61 residents were unemployed. In 2016 there were 19 farms.

Council taxes

In 2017, the municipal tax revenue amounted to € 4.360 million, of which the trade tax income (net) amounted to € 1.487 million.

education

The following institutions existed in 2018:

2 day care centers with 132 approved places and 125 children
2 elementary schools with a total of 16 classes, 24 teachers and 296 students
1 grammar school: St. Michaels grammar school of the Benedictines with 14 classes, 34 teachers and 435 students and an attached boarding school

sons and daughters of the town

Modest Butterer (1738–1784), Benedictine priest and legal scholar
Benedikt Hacker (1769–1829), composer and music publisher
Rainer Keßler (1919–2002), administrative lawyer
Sepp Maier (* 1944), soccer goalkeeper, soccer world champion 1974
Thomas E. Bauer (* 1970), singer
Johannes Hartl (* 1979), Roman Catholic theologian, speaker, book author and songwriter

Other personalities associated with the city

Pavlo Skoropadskyj (born May 15, 1873 in Wiesbaden , † April 26, 1945 in Metten ), tsarist general , landowner and Ukrainian politician . During the First World War he was the head of state of his country as the German- backed hetman of the Ukrainian state .

Others

Metten used to be the Bavarian starting point of the European pilgrimage route Via Nova , which leads to Sankt Wolfgang im Salzkammergut (Austria) and is integrated into the European network of long-distance hiking trails (current starting point: Weltenburg Abbey ).

Individual evidence

↑ "Data 2" sheet, Statistical Report A1200C 202041 Population of the municipalities, districts and administrative districts 1st quarter 2020 (population based on the 2011 census) ( help ).

↑ Markt Metten in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on December 5, 2017.

↑ MERIAN monthly issue, 16th year (1963), issue 6, p. 88 ff

↑ Bayerwaldbote dated April 3, 2009 ( Memento of the original dated January 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ Announcement of the final result of the election of the municipal council on March 15, 2020. In: markt-metten.de. March 31, 2020, accessed May 1, 2020 .
^ Election result of March 15, 2020. wahl.info, March 16, 2020, accessed on March 16, 2020 .
↑ Local elections 2020 | Metten market. Retrieved April 11, 2020 .
↑ Entry on the Metten coat of arms in the database of the House of Bavarian History , accessed on August 6, 2020 .
^ Bavaria - Austria - Czech Republic. Association "European Pilgrimage - VIA NOVA", accessed on December 4, 2015 .

Web links

Commons : Metten - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Entry on the coat of arms of Metten in the database of the House of Bavarian History

Metten: Official statistics of the LfStat

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-BY-1] "Data 2" sheet, Statistical Report A1200C 202041 Population of the municipalities, districts and administrative districts 1st quarter 2020 (population based on the 2011 census) ( help ).

[2] Markt Metten in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on December 5, 2017.

[3] MERIAN monthly issue, 16th year (1963), issue 6, p. 88 ff