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

Originally a Baroque monastery church, this single-nave, oriented building featured a narrow nave and an elongated, pentagonal presbytery. Both were vaulted with barrel vaults featuring lunettes and adorned with frescoes by J. V. Tschöpper (2nd half of the 18th century) and F. J. Duchoslav (late 19th century). Most of the Baroque furnishings, dating from the 18th century, were created by J. A. Dietz, F. M. Voget, Ignatz Raab, and the master stonemason Martin Hennevogel. A masonry gallery at t.. Read more »he western 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 entire complex was dilapidated and uninhabitable; the church nave was roofless, and the walls were deteriorating. Restoration began in 1716 and finished in 1722, only for the church to burn again in 1723. The vaults and most of the interior furnishings survived. Another fire ravaged the monastery in 1820; its reconstruction was completed in 1842, with minor work continuing into the latter half of the 19th century. The monastery and church were demolished in 1977 during the destruction of the historic city center.