Monastery Church (former Franciscan Church)

Construction of the monastery church began in 1667. Antonio Petrini, an Italian-born architect who later served as court builder to the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg, provided the plans. The nave was completed in 1679 and the choir followed in 1688; the church was consecrated the same year under the dedication of the Assumption of Mary. By 1705 it had received a rich furnishing, including an organ built in 1681 by P. Adam Öhninger, an organ builder belonging to the convent. In 1707 the previously flat-ceilinged church was given its vault.

In 1803 the Franciscan monastery was dissolved during secularisation, though the friars retained the right to reside there until their deaths. After Miltenberg passed to Bavaria, the monastery was resettled from 1836 and came under the Bavarian Franciscan Province. In 1843 the convent adopted the dedication to the Immaculate Conception of Mary. Between 1888 and 1893 the Baroque appearance was replaced by furnishings in the taste of the day. The convent was finally dissolved in 1983, and the monastery buildings were taken over by Caritas.

The church follows the model of Gothic mendicant-order churches: a plain hall church of seven bays with a two-bay recessed choir and a roof turret instead of a tower. The barrel vault is divided by transverse arches. Between 1960 and 1964 the interior was remodelled and partly restored to a Baroque style, with a new Immaculata high altar in Baroque forms, while the two side altars came from the church in Laudenbach. Of the original furnishings, the figure-rich pulpit and the case of the Öhninger organ survive, the latter later extensively rebuilt by the Vleugels firm.