St. Marien, Catholic church in Stiepel, Bochum, Germany

St. Marien is a Roman Catholic church in Bochum-Stiepel, built in 1914–1915 to designs by architect Franz Mündelein in the neo-Gothic style. It has no tower but a slender roof turret with a green-patinated spire and cross. The walls are rough light-grey stone blocks with pointed-arched tracery windows, and a lower annex projects at the front right.

St. Marien was built in 1914–1915 to plans by architect Franz Mündelein as a daughter church of the Blankenstein parish, without a tower but with a roof turret. The first Mass since the Reformation had been celebrated in a Stiepel dance hall in 1902, and the recovered pilgrimage image arrived in 1920. The church became a parish church in 1955 and a Cistercian monastery church in 1988.

Stiepel's pilgrimage centres on a Pietà image lost around 1820 and recovered in 1908; it was brought into the church in 1920. The parish was recognised as a pilgrimage church of the Sorrowful Mother in 1930, and pilgrims from the Eichsfeld region were mobilised in the 1920s. A 1953 window commemorates Countess Imma.

The church is located in the Stiepel district and is easily accessible by public transportation. Visitors should be aware that this is an active place of worship with specific visiting hours for tours or viewing.

The church holds a replica of the Turin Shroud and the Volto Santo of Manoppello in its choir windows, made by the artist-monk Pater Raphael Statt. The organ built in 1996 by Romanus Seifert & Sohn has 28 stops and 1,788 pipes, 164 of wood and 1,624 of tin.