Kreuzbergkirche, Religious monument in Endenich, Germany

The Kreuzbergkirche is a church complex on Kreuzberg Hill overlooking Bonn that combines a main church building with a convent and a monumental flight of stairs. The site assembles these structures on a unified elevated location with views of the surrounding city.

A cross was venerated on Kreuzberg from the 15th century, and around 1429 some 50,000 pilgrims reportedly came to a cross above Lengsdorf. A late-Gothic cross chapel stood here until 1627, when Archbishop Ferdinand von Bayern had the present church built on another spot on the hill. Servite friars arrived from Innsbruck in 1637; in 1746 Elector Clemens August donated the Holy Stairs, planned by Balthasar Neumann.

The Heilige Stiege was donated in 1746 by Elector Clemens August, with plans by Balthasar Neumann modelled on the staircase at Augustusburg Palace in Brühl. Its 28 steps carry brass crosses on the second, eleventh and last treads, marking where fragments of Christ's cross are said to be set into the stone. A chapel with an altar and crucifixion group ends the climb.

The site is accessible by foot from central Bonn and offers elevated views of the city from the hilltop location. Wear sturdy shoes since reaching the complex involves climbing stairs and the terrain is uneven in places.

Napoleon rode up the Kreuzberg on 17 September 1804 and, according to legend, tried to ride his white horse up the Holy Stairs; the horse fell and he is said to have broken a leg. Historians trace the injury to a fall in the Vogtsgasse instead.