Schlachthof, Architectural monument in Bad Kissingen, Germany

Schlachthof is a late-Jugendstil slaughterhouse built 1923–1925 to plans by Stuttgart architect Josef Hennings, with site supervision by city building director Hans Husslein. The grey-plastered main building has a steep central gable and lower red-tiled side wings; its entrance front is an open columned hall with a round-arched gateway, above which a relief by Heinrich Salomon shows mayor Max Pollwein over the town coat of arms and a ram's skull. The whole complex, forecourt included, measures 87.50 m long, 51 m wide and almost 30 m high.

Bad Kissingen's slaughterhouse was built from 1923 to 1925 to plans by Stuttgart architect Josef Hennings, with city building director Hans Husslein supervising on site. It replaced an older slaughterhouse that no longer met requirements; the council decided in 1927 to demolish that predecessor next to the Old Synagogue. Operations ran from autumn 1925 until December 2002, and the complex cost almost two million Reichsmark.

Locals call the former slaughterhouse "Ochsenkathedrale" (Ox Cathedral) because its central hall, nearly 50 metres long and 17 metres high, resembles a church nave. Visitors once paid 50 pfennigs to watch slaughtering from two galleries reached by a broad concrete staircase and iron spiral stairs. The hall walls are clad to five metres in turquoise Siegersdorf ceramic tiles with animal motifs along the top.

The complex stands at Würzburger Straße 4, with matching residential buildings at numbers 2 and 6 framing it symmetrically. The entrance front forms an open columned forecourt, so the facade and the round-arched passage can be viewed from outside at any time. The site lies north of the town centre, reachable on foot along Würzburger Straße.

The central hall's walls are lined to a height of five metres with turquoise Siegersdorf ceramic tiles, their upper edge decorated with animal motifs. Two galleries run along the nave, reached by a broad reinforced-concrete staircase and two spiral stairs; spa guests once paid 50 pfennigs to watch the slaughtering from above.