Straubing - St Peter's Church

In Straubing's Old Town, to the east of the New Town, is St Peter's Church (1180), a Romanesque basilica (towers built 1886), with a crucifix of about 1200 above the high altar. In the Kirchhof is the Agnes Bernauer Chapel (1436), with the grave-slab of Agnes Bernauer, the beautiful daughter of a burgher of Augsburg who became the wife of Duke Albrecht III against the wishes of his father, who then had her accused of witchcraft and drowned in the Danube. Nearby is the Totentanzkapelle (1486; ducal burial vault), with frescoes of the Danse Macabre (1763).