Wallfahrtskirche St. Leonhard, Baroque pilgrimage church in Kaufering, Germany

Wallfahrtskirche St. Leonhard is a Baroque structure on the southern edge of Kaufering with a three-sided octagonal apse and an octagonal bell tower topped by an onion dome. The interior holds an organ by Albert Reiser and three bells, two of which date to the early 18th century.

A wooden pilgrimage chapel built around 1704 collapsed in 1712, prompting a stone church consecrated in 1723 by Augsburg auxiliary bishop Johann Jakob von Mayr; its furnishings were completed only in 1765. The building is attributed by style to Michael Natter, modeled on his Leonhardskirche in Utting. A fundraising campaign enabled a general renovation from 1975, followed by an interior renewal in 1999.

The Leonhardifahrt, held again every year since 1974, is the central event: the church's cattle patron, Saint Leonard, is honoured in a ride that passes the building. Inside the choir, large votive candles document the continuing importance of the Kaufering pilgrimage; of the old votive pictures only one panel from 1879 survives. Two wrought-iron chains around the church, added in the 1975 restoration, recall Leonard's role as patron of livestock.

The church stands alone in the Lech meadow a few hundred metres south of Kaufering, on the high bank of the Lech; it is reached on foot or by car from the town. Two wrought-iron chains run around the building, added in the 1975 restoration, as at many Saint Leonard churches. The interior was renovated again in 1999.

The legend tells that the wooden figure was washed up by a Lech flood in the second half of the 17th century. A resident placed it in the hollow of an oak, but it was repeatedly found on a meadow and finally at the site of today's church. A replica of the original image stands in the niche above the north portal.