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Wednesday 19 March (optional): Aschaffenburg

Staatsgalerie Aschaffenburg im Schloss Johannisburg

On Wednesday 19 June we offer an optional day trip to the city of Aschaffenburg in Northwest-Bavaria. In the morning, we will visit Johannisburg Palace, one of the most important examples of palace architecture from the German Late Renaissance.

The Staatsgalerie Aschaffenburg, housed within the Palace, boasts 253 paintings. This collection was established in the eighteenth-century mainly by Friedrich Karl von Erthal, the last Elector and Archbishop of Mainz. Important works in the collection are a Passion series by Aert de Gelder and several works by Lucas Cranach the Elder and his students. Also on view in the Palace is the world’s largest collection of cork models of buildings from ancient Rome that were created in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century. The Parament Chamber displays ecclesiastical textiles and liturgical equipment from the Mainz cathedral treasury.

After a lunch in the city center, our program continues at the collegiate church of St. Peter und Alexander and the adjacent Stiftsmuseum that is housed in the church’s chapter house. The church was established in the tenth-century and the current building was mostly completed in the twelfth-century. Important artworks in the church and the museum are Matthias Grünewald’s Beweinung Christi, a tenth-century crucifix and two paintings by Pieter Coecke van Aelst.

Matthias Grünewald 1470-1528, The Lamentation of Christ, 1516
St. Peter und Alexander, Aschaffenburg

Program

Wednesday, 19 March 2025

08:30
Participants gather at Station Köln Messe-Deutz (or participants travel to Aschaffenburg at their own leisure)
08:44 – 10:22 Train from Köln Messe-Deutz to Aschaffenburg
10:25 – 10:45
Walk from Aschaffenburg station to Schloss Johannisburg
10:45 – 11:00
Introduction to the Palace and the museums by Mirjam Neumeister, Chief Curator Flemish Baroque Paintings, Alte Pinakothek, Munich
11:00 – 12:00
Group 1: Visit to the Staatsgalerie Aschaffenburg in Schloss Johannisburg with Mirjam Neumeister
Group 2: Visit to the Cork model collection and the Parament Chamber, Bavarian Palace Administration
12:00 – 13:00
Group 1: Visit to the Cork model collection and the Parament Chamber, Bavarian Palace Administration
Group 2: Visit to the Staatsgalerie Aschaffenburg in Schloss Johannisburg with Mirjam Neumeister
13:15 – 14:30 Lunch
14:45 – 16:00
Visit to the Stiftsmuseum and Stiftskirche of Aschaffenburg with Thomas Schauerte, Director, Museen der Stadt Aschaffenburg
  End of program

The program is also available as a PDF-file (file opens in new tab).

Extra fee

There is an extra fee for this optional full-day excursion, which includes entrance to all locations, guided tours and lunch. Members and associate members pay 45 euros and Patrons pay 75 euros.

Travel to and from Aschaffenburg

We will be travelling to Aschaffenburg by train, as this is the quickest and most comfortable way to get there from Cologne. We will be taking the train (ICE 529 to Nürnberg Hbf) from Köln Messe-Deutz at 8:44 AM, arriving in Aschaffenburg at 10:22. Train tickets must be purchased by each participant individually at the train station or via the website of the Deutsche Bahn. We recommend purchasing your ticket in advance to enjoy better rates.

After the excursion, you can choose to travel back to Cologne at your own leisure or continue your journey home, for example, from Frankfurt Airport.

Registration

If you have already registered for the congress and would like to partake in the excursion to Aschaffenburg, please send an email to events@codart.nl. If you have not registered for the congress yet, please check the box in the registration form.

If you have any questions about this event, please contact the CODART office
Moos Engelbertink, event manager
events@codart.nl