The church was built in 1712 in place of the destroyed Michaeliskapelle and later remodeled and expanded with neo-Gothic forms. Beneath the nave is a vaulted medieval ossuary. Due to the limited space of the cemetery, the bones that were excavated during reburials were collected and stored there. It was already mentioned in 1496. Later, it was abandoned and fell into oblivion. It was only rediscovered in 1981 during construction work.
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The ossuary was discovered on October 3, 1981, during construction work in the Catholic church. It was decided not to allow the ossuary to be open for viewing. The current market was originally the Westhofen cemetery, and the Catholic church served as the cemetery chapel. It is therefore assumed that, as was common everywhere, when the graves were cleared, the bones were reinterred in an ossuary. The first records of an ossuary date back to 1496. Due to construction work and also demolition, the exact location of the ossuary was forgotten.
