St. Bonifatius, Gothic Revival Catholic church in Mitte district, Wiesbaden, Germany.
St. Bonifatius is a Gothic Revival Catholic church with two distinctive towers that rise 68 meters high and are visible from the central Luisenplatz. The interior features impressive vaulted ceilings, colored windows, and a large organ that fills the space with sound during services.
The previous church at this location collapsed in 1831, leading architect Philipp Hoffmann to design a new building between 1844 and 1849. This reconstruction established St. Bonifatius as a major religious center for the growing city of Wiesbaden during the 1800s.
The parish choir, the Chor von St. Bonifatius, was founded in 1862 and has around 120 members. It sings at services, including orchestral masses by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert at Christmas and Easter, and gives an annual choral concert, usually on 3 October. The Boni-Musikwochen bring choral and organ concerts on a yearly theme.
The main portal faces south onto Luisenplatz, not west, with the choir at the north end. The nave is 24 m wide and 18 m high, with 22 columns supporting the rib vault. The church is an active parish, so time visits outside services.
The gable triangle originally held a rosette, replaced by a clock in 1890. The 22 columns carrying the rib vault, the 1967 altar by Elmar Hillebrand and the white, red and blue windows by Johannes Beeck all date from after 1945, when an air raid destroyed the roof, windows and part of the vault.
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