St. Kunigundis, Roman Catholic church in Bettenhausen, Kassel, Germany

St. Kunigundis is a Roman Catholic church in Bettenhausen, Kassel, built of prestressed concrete clad in rubble stone in a Romanesque-influenced Heimatschutz style. The 50-metre-long nave mixes hall church and basilica forms, with round-arched niches standing in for side aisles. A 38-metre tower with an octagonal top and slate pyramid roof adjoins the northeast side; above the southwest portal stand figures of Mary, Kunigunde and Henry II.

The cornerstone was laid on 8 April 1925 for a church designed by the brothers F. and T. Langenberg, using prestressed concrete with a rubble-stone facing in Heimatschutz style with Romanesque borrowings. The Fulda bishop Joseph Damian Schmitt consecrated it on 14 August 1927. It is one of the first churches in prestressed concrete and is a listed monument. In 2019 severe vault damage forced closure for public use.

The windowless apse is lined with mosaics designed by painter Walter Klocke in 1942 but completed only in 1947. They show Christ enthroned in a mandorla, flanked by Saints Kunigunde and Henry, Boniface and Elisabeth, Francis de Sales and John Bosco, with a dove and the hand of God above.

The church has been closed to the public since 2019 because of serious damage to the vault; a net is stretched under the ceiling to catch falling pieces. Since early 2023 a meal gathering for local residents, run by the Catholic parish, the nearby Protestant Marienkirche and the Salvation Army, occupies the area under the gallery, while the rest of the nave is cordoned off. A full restoration was estimated at one million euros in early 2023, and an investor is still being sought.

Walter Klocke designed the apse mosaics in 1942, but they were only completed in 1947, five years later. The central figure is Christ enthroned in a mandorla, flanked by Kunigunde and Heinrich, Boniface and Elisabeth, Francis de Sales and John Bosco. Above them hover a dove and the hand of God with swords, each accompanied by three angels.