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The monastery was found over 100 years ago. The abbey is partly enclosed by monastery buildings. Next to the portal/gate church is a museum with artefacts collected over 120 years during mission missionary work in Africa and Asia. On the monastery ground are there is also the baroque church of the Emminger estate, the only partly preserved Emminger Castle, a guest house, a sewing machine museum, a grammar school and internat. The monks of St. Ottilien cultivate about 200 hectares of land. Beside In addition to farming, they also raise cattle, pigs and chickens. Fruits and herbs come from grow in the cloister garden. A butchery and bakery processes the produce on location, part of it which is sold in the cloister shop.

The beer garden has about 800 seats and is divided in a self-service serviced and waitress area. Guests of the self-service serviced area can either sit on regular tables and chairs in the shade of large, yellow sun umbrellas or on one of the 33 beer benches fixed -to -the -ground benches in the shade of old maple trees. The food stall offers fresh products from the cloister butchery and bakery, such as [[Schweinebraten]] (pork roast), Hendl (grilled chicken), sausages, [[Obatzda]] (Bavarian cheese creation) and [[Auszogne]] (- a kind of Bavarian doughnut). A separate stall prepares [[Steckerlfisch]] (grilled fish on a stick) over charcoal. The beer sold beer is [[Andechser]] from the tap and a [[Maß]] Hell (lager) costs €5.60 (August 2012).