Holy Cross Church, Parish church in Bornheim district, Germany.
Holy Cross Church is a modern parish church in Frankfurt-Bornheim built with reinforced concrete and steel framing topped with flat saddle roofs. The building displays clean lines and simple proportions typical of contemporary religious architecture of its era.
Martin Weber designed and completed the church in August 1929 as an expansion of the St. Josef parish. It was built to serve the growing population settling in the Bornheim district at that time.
The meditation centre of the Diocese of Limburg, opened here on 1 August 2007, closed on 20 December 2025; its last event was Midnight Mass on 24 December 2025. From 2011 to 14 June 2026 the International English-Speaking Catholic Parish held its Sunday morning service here, ending with the annual parish picnic. The building's future was still undecided in 2026, with a sale planned.
The church is centrally located with good access to Frankfurt's public transportation system via nearby tram and bus lines. Visitors can easily arrive by public transport or walk through the residential neighborhood to reach it.
The church closes the vista of Wittelsbacherallee: the street bends right just before the portal and passes the open staircase leading into the interior. Martin Weber's winning competition entry had to place the tower front at the upper end of the avenue. Below the slope runs a branch of the German Camino de Santiago.
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