Bridge, Church of St. Lawrence and St. Francis of Seraphina, 1945

Originally a Baroque monastery church, this single-nave oriented structure featured a narrow nave and an elongated, pentagonally closed presbytery. Both nave and presbytery were vaulted with barrel vaults and lunettes, decorated with frescoes by J. V. Tschöpper (2nd half of the 18th century) and F. J. Duchoslav (late 19th century). Most of the Baroque furnishings dated from the 18th century, created by J. A. Dietz, F. M. Vogt, Ignatz Raab, and the marble mason Martin Hennevogel. A masonry gal.. Read more »lery at the west end of the nave housed an organ from the late 17th century. Repairs are documented after a fire in 1639. By the last quarter of the 17th century, the building was dilapidated and uninhabitable, the church nave was roofless, and the masonry crown was deteriorating. Restoration began in 1716 and was completed in 1722. The church burned again in 1723, but the vaults and most of the interior furnishings survived. Another fire in 1820 led to a reconstruction finished in 1842, with minor work continuing into the second half of the 19th century. The monastery and church were demolished in 1977 during the destruction of the historic city center.