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

Originally a Baroque monastery church, it was a single-nave oriented structure with a narrow nave and an elongated, five-sided presbytery. Both nave and presbytery featured barrel vaults with 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 master stonemason Martin Hennevogel. A masonry gallery at the .. Read more »western end of the nave housed an organ from the late 17th century. Repairs were 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 crown of the walls was deteriorating. Restoration began in 1716 and was completed in 1722. The church burned again in 1723, but the vaults were undamaged, and the interior furnishings were largely preserved. Another fire in 1820 led to reconstruction, 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.