 In 1964, on the same spot, a new church building was consecrated to Saint Thomas More.In 1995, Saint Peter's Evangelical Church ("Petruskirche") celebrated its 90th birthday.Before the Thirty Years' War began in 1618, Laufach was a village with 76 "Unterthanen" (a word that usually means “subjects” in German, but in this case it means “men or families”) – all together 300 inhabitants.