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Extract from the Mettlach Travel Guides:
METTLACH
, 40km along the Saar from Vlklingen, ranks as one of Saarland's prettier towns, despite being a virtual fiefdom of the ceramics firm Villeroy & Boch, whose specialist factories dominate the townscape. The massive Baroque
Benediktinerabtei
overlooking the waterfront, which had fallen victim to the Napoleonic suppression, was taken over by Jean Franois Boch in 1809 to serve as the new headquarters of his family firm, founded in Lorraine back in 1748. This merged with the rival Villeroy works in 1836, and is still in the hands of the descendants. Part of the abbey complex is given over to a visitors' centre,
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