St Johannes Baptist, Catholic church in central Herford, Germany.

St Johannes Baptist is a white-plastered church with a red tiled roof and stone-edged sections in central Herford. Its older eastern part is a baroque hall church built in 1715, while the western neo-Romanesque extension of 1890/91 has three naves and holds the altar. The west facade has three tall rounded-arch windows with dark gridded glazing and a plain rectangular doorway; a grey slate cupola with cross and weathervane tops the tower.

A Knights of St John commandery was established in Herford's Neustadt in 1230/31 at the behest of Abbess Gertrud II zur Lippe; its members cared for the sick and received donations from nobility and townspeople. The present parish house was built in 1468. In 1715 commander Johann Sigismund von Schaesberg replaced the chapel with a baroque hall church, the eastern part of today's building. A neo-Romanesque western extension followed in 1890/91, and the church has been a listed monument since 1981.

The church keeps the relics of Saint Pusinna, brought to Herford from Binson in France in 860; her veneration made the town a pilgrimage site, and the relics were placed here in 1949. Paintings near the organ show Queen Mathilde, raised in the Herford convent around 900, and Pusinna herself.

The altar stands in the west because the neo-Romanesque extension of 1890/91 was built there, so the main entrance is at the east end. The interior was last renovated between 2006 and 2008. Look for the baroque ceiling and wall paintings renewed by a Professor Thol around 1949–1951.

The church holds relics of Saint Pusinna, brought to Herford from Binson in France in 860; the translation turned the town into a pilgrimage site. Found again in Heddinghausen in 1939, they were placed in 1949 in a modern base beneath the retable in the apse.