Basilica and abbey museum - church and museum

In the 19th century, the Basilica had a special bell-ringer, Franz Haus, his passion was to draw up a chronic of Aschaffenburg. The original chronic is kept safe in the city and abbey archive. The most impressive art treasures are the "Stuppacher Madonna" and the "Lamentation of Christ" of Matthias Grünewald. The exhibition "Splendour and Faith in the Middle Ages" has been on public display in the abbey museum. The precious treasure St. Peter and Alexander is a real medieval treasury which impress with objects of silver, crystallized quartz, gold and valuable illuminations. The centre is the famous Altar of St. Magdalene from the studio of Lucas Cranach the Elder.

Information regarding the opening hours can be found right here.