Maria Hilf, Church building in Bamberg, Germany.

Maria Hilf is a church in Bamberg, situated on Kirchstrasse and listed as a protected architectural monument in Bavaria. The building follows the traditional forms of Bavarian church construction, with a structured facade and an interior arranged around the altar.

A chapel dedicated to Saints Magdalene and Ottilie stood here from at least 1496 and burned during the Swedish passage of 1632. In 1684 a new Marian chapel housed a carved copy of Cranach's 'Mother of Perpetual Help', attracting pilgrims. The Baroque chapel of 1689–1696 was replaced by the present Neo-Gothic church, built 1887–1892 to designs by Chrysostomus Martin and consecrated in 1892.

The parish takes its name from a carved, painted copy of Lucas Cranach's 1525 "Mother of Perpetual Help", made around 1650/60 by an unknown artist and set up in a 1684 chapel. The church keeps two dates: the patronal feast on 2 July, Maria Heimsuchung, and the Kirchweih on the Sunday before 22 July, Mary Magdalene's feast. That Wunderburger Kerwa is Bamberg's second-largest parish fair.

The church sits in a residential part of Bamberg and is easy to reach on foot from the city center. Visiting outside of service times gives more freedom to look around the building at your own pace.

The carved, painted statue of Mary venerated here was made around 1650–60 by an unknown artist as a copy of Lucas Cranach the Elder's 1525 "Mother of Perpetual Help"; it was placed in a small chapel built in 1684 by the Wunderburg tailor and community master Andreas Klubenspieß. The crowds it drew led to the present church.