Stadtkirche St. Laurentius, Gothic church in Pegau, Germany

Stadtkirche St. Laurentius is a late Gothic hall church with a Romanesque west building of sandstone raised in brick, topped by octagonal lanterns. The nave has four bays with star vaults, slender octagonal piers, and side aisles with net and cross-ribbed vaults. The choir ends in a five-eighth close, and the exterior has buttresses and pointed windows.

The church was probably founded before 1189 by Abbot Windolf of the Benedictine monastery of St. Jakob. After the town fire of 1382 it was rebuilt in the 15th century: the north aisle was added in 1408, the south aisle in 1463, with further renewals in 1494 and 1521. Partly destroyed in 1644 during the Thirty Years' War, it was restored in 1660.

The church shapes the city's skyline with its Gothic form and displays inside an altarpiece from the 1600s showing biblical scenes in detailed craftsmanship. This artwork tells the story of the town's religious focus across many centuries.

The church is entered from the west through a late Gothic portal topped by a neo-Gothic gable; the north portal has a pointed arch. Inside, slender octagonal piers carry the arcades, and the side aisles are lower than the central nave. The cenotaph of Wiprecht von Groitzsch stands in the chapel on the ground floor of the west building.

The sandstone cenotaph of Wiprecht von Groitzsch, made around 1230, was originally carved for the St. Jakob monastery church, demolished in 1556, and only later moved into the chapel on the ground floor of the west building. It was restored and repainted in 1869; its original inlays of glass paste, rock crystal and malachite are lost.