History museum

Basilica and abbey museum - church and museum

Stiftsmuseum , Stiftsplatz 1, 63739 Aschaffenburg

An impressive collection of buildings has stood upon Stiftsberg hill in Aschaffenburg for more than thousand years: The Collegiate Church. It was built in the 10th century as centre of the collegiate foundation St. Peter & Alexander and experienced many changes by destructions in the course time. Until 1803 the Basilica was a symbol for spiritual power of the archbishops and electors of Mainz.

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.