On 15 March 1670 the later abbot and rector Berthold Dietmayr was born in Scheibbs.
Dietmayr studied theology at the University of Vienna after entering the Benedictine Melk Abbey. He was ordained a priest in 1696 and graduated doctor of theology in 1701. In the academic year 1706/07 he acted as rector of the University of Vienna.From 1700 Dietmayr was Abbot of the Melk Abbey. With massive financial effort, he had the medieval monastery converted into a splendid baroque monastery. Dietmayr also excelled as a promoter of education and science and was also politically extremely influential, for example, he acted as adviser to the emperors Leopold I, Joseph I and Charles VI.
