Mariä Himmelfahrt, Parish church in Aldersbach, Germany

Mariä Himmelfahrt is the former Cistercian abbey church of Aldersbach, a wall-pillar church 64 m long and 21 m wide, with a choir 10 m wide rising to 20 m. Its pink plaster with white trim was restored in 1978–1980. The late-medieval west tower carries a multi-tiered, profiled cupola; the interior has a barrel vault with frescoes by Cosmas Damian Asam and stucco by Egid Quirin Asam.

Abbot Michael Kirchberger had the medieval choir demolished and rebuilt in 1617. Under Abbot Theobald I. Grad, between 1705 and 1734, the nave was rebuilt and the choir adapted, while the late-medieval west tower was kept; Dominikus Magzin of Graubünden led the works. The chronogram in the choir-arch cartouche gives 1720 as the year the building was largely finished, and in 1755 the tower facade was reworked in Rococo taste with a new belfry storey.

The church is dedicated to the Assumption of Mary, and the Cistercian monastery it served shaped its use. The high altar from 1723 shows Saint Bernard of Clairvaux kneeling before the Virgin. The choir arch cartouche carries a chronogram reading "Christo Deo ex Maria Virgine Incarnato", whose Roman numerals give 1720; a faulty restoration replaced Christo with Credo, so the letters now add up to 1719.

The church is 64 m long and 21 m wide, with a 20 m vault; the five-bay nave and the narrower choir are best read walking from the west organ gallery toward the high altar. The tower facade was reworked in 1755, and the pink-and-white colour scheme was restored in 1978–1980. The sandstone ornament on the portal was moved into the cloister in 1978–1980 and replaced by cast-stone copies.

The choir arch cartouche bears a chronogram reading "ChrIsto Deo eX MarIa VIrgIne InCarnato", whose Roman numerals give 1720. A faulty restoration replaced Christo with Credo, so the letters now add up to 1719, or 2219 if the D is counted.