Mettlach, Villeroy and Boch Hq.

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Our photo of the 250-year-old Benedictine Abbey, with a beautiful Baroque façade, the Villeroy and Boch headquarters on the Saar River in Mettlach, Germany, brought this comment in a letter from Herr Wendelin Von Boch, “I have never seen such a good photograph of the Ancient Abbey.” When viewed from this bank of the river, the Abbey building dominates the view and fortunately blocks the sight of a half-mile of modern ceramic manufacturing factories beyond. Since this photo was snapped, the Saar River has been engineered into a canal with concrete retaining walls, and the trees and grassy banks have disappeared.

Hidden in the trees to the right is an unusual octagonal edifice, the Alter Turm (Old Tower), a portion of the former church of the Sepulchre of Saint Lutwinus, that has been standing for nearly 1000 years.
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The company was founded in the 1720’s and has been in the old Benedictine Abbey for a 150 years or so.

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Here's two views of the headquarters building after the River was made into a canal. These are not photographs, they are "snapshots" from our Video.

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