Memorial Plaque for Jakob Gapp at the Cemetery Chapel near the Laurentius Church Wattens

Father Marianist Jakob Gapp was executed on 23.8.1943 in the prison camp Berlin-Plötzensee due to his sharp criticism of National Socialism. His beatification took place on 24.11.1996. On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Father Jakob Gapp's death, the Catholic Men's Movement took the initiative to install a bronze plaque in the Laurentius Church; however, "against the resistance of influential personalities" and after several years of "local political tug-of-war." Priest Josef Purtauf consecrated the plaque on 2.7.1983. When a new memorial for Father Gapp was erected in the Laurentius Church in July 1997, the commemorative plaque was placed on the exterior wall of the building where the Holy Sepulchre is kept, in the area of the old cemetery near the Laurentius Church.