Mariä Himmelfahrt, Catholic church in Pfreimd, Germany.

Mariä Himmelfahrt is a Catholic parish church in Pfreimd. Its nearly square nave with a saddle roof connects to a recessed choir with buttresses; between them stands a tower with a welsche Haube, topped since 1808 by the present copper dome. The white facade has tall arched windows with dark glass, and a clock with a red and white face on the tower.

The parish is documented from 1216, when it became independent of Perschen. After a fire, Landgrave Friedrich V of Leuchtenberg had a new church built next to his castle from 1481; the choir by Amberg architect Wolf Keul followed from 1513 and the building was completed in 1515. Johann Schmuzer of Wessobrunn rebuilt the nave from 1682, consecrated in 1685, keeping the Gothic choir and the landgrave burial vault.

The high altar is a stucco baldachin on four twisted columns wreathed in vine leaves, made by Johann Schmuzer and modelled on Bernini's altar in St Peter's. Its oil painting of the Assumption is signed "Jacobus Potma fecit A 1689". The side altars carry further Potma paintings, and the organ case with acanthus carving dates from around 1690.

Two portals with pilaster framing open the nave from the market square and from the former castle side, so the church can be entered from either direction. The interior was fully restored between 1988 and 1990; the choir with its buttresses and the three-bay nave are best compared by walking the length of the space.

The high altar is a stucco baldachin over four twisted columns garlanded with vine leaves, made by Johann Schmuzer and modelled on Bernini's altar in St. Peter's in Rome. Its oil painting of the Assumption is signed "Jacobus Potma fecit A 1689".