St. Ludger, Neo-Gothic Catholic church in Duisburg-Neudorf, Germany.

St. Ludger is a neo-Gothic basilica built in 1897 in Duisburg-Neudorf, designed by architect Dietrich Hofferek. The three-aisled church with transept has a massive tower with a pointed spire, flanked by four smaller spires at its corners; two similar spires stand at the ends of the transept. Typical Gothic features include buttresses, three-light tracery windows and ribbed vaulting.

The church was completed in 1897 under architect Dietrich Hofferek and marked a period of Catholic expansion in Duisburg. It arose when rapidly growing neighborhoods needed new religious buildings for their expanding communities.

The church serves the Catholic community of Duisburg-Neudorf as a gathering place and venue for regular worship. It shapes the neighborhood's character and functions as a familiar landmark in daily life.

St. Ludger stands on Mülheimer Straße in Duisburg-Neudorf, where the parish was established in 1892; the site was bought in 1887 and first held an emergency church from 1889/90. The church faces the street with its tower, and the transept ends carry two small spires. Look for the confessional at the Kettenportal and the 1927 baptismal font with the twelve apostles.

The organ built in 1940 had 80 stops on four manuals and pedal, so large that the window above the main portal had to be bricked up. Bombing damaged it in 1943; the firm Romanus Seifert & Sohn rebuilt it in 1961 with 61 stops, and in 2000 it was restored and enlarged to 64 stops.