St.-Bonifatius-Kirche, Catholic church in Neckarstadt district, Mannheim, Germany
St. Bonifatius Church is a three-aisled basilica with a transept, a dome over the crossing, and a 52-metre tower topped by a green copper dome. Its walls are clad in yellow sandstone, and the facade is only sparsely decorated. The church is 54 metres long and 31.5 metres wide across the transept.
St. Bonifatius was built between 1912 and 1914 to designs by Ludwig Maier, who chose Jugendstil and clad the church in yellow sandstone after the foundation council objected to plaster because of industrial soot. It was blessed on 6 December 1914 and consecrated on 20 June 1915. A bomb hit in spring 1943 caused the dome to collapse; it was rebuilt by 1954.
The parish is named after Saint Boniface, and since 1925 Franciscans from the Thuringian province have provided pastoral care, building a monastery beside the church in 1929–1930. Four Franciscans still live there today. The church is clad in yellow sandstone rather than brick, and the tower rises 52 metres.
The building is easy to spot from outside and sits in the residential Neckarstadt neighborhood. Look for the distinctive yellow brick walls that mark its location.
The dome that collapsed after a 1943 bomb hit was rebuilt by 1954. The church was elevated to a parish only in December 1944, shortly before the war ended, and the Franciscans' provincial headquarters was moved here from Frauenberg in 1940.
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