St. Stephan, Catholic church building in Sprendlingen, Germany

St. Stephan is a modern-style Catholic church in northern Sprendlingen, built from 1965 to 1966 to designs by Darmstadt architect Josef Leibl. It consists of a campanile in the southeast and a wide, triangular nave with a tent-like roof in the northwest, seating about 450 people. The white interior, focused on the altar, features large wall paintings in orange, yellow and blue by Eberhard Münch, installed during the 2006–2008 renovation.

St. Stephan was built from 1965 in northern Sprendlingen because the parish church St. Laurentius, designed for about 200 worshippers, could no longer hold the Catholic congregation that had grown after 1945 with refugees from the Sudetenland. The Darmstadt architect Josef Leibl, who had drawn St. Laurentius thirty years earlier, designed the modern church, consecrated by Mainz bishop Hermann Volk on 25 September 1966. Renovated in 1996–1998 and 2006–2008, it became the parish church of the merged parish St. Laurentius in 2012.

The church is named after Saint Stephen, and since 2012 it has been the parish church of the merged parish of St. Laurentius Dreieich, together with St. Laurentius in Sprendlingen and Heilig Geist in Buchschlag. Its four bells include the Paulus bell, formerly in a Protestant church tower in Düsseldorf, and the John the Baptist bell from an unknown church in Alsace, which reached the Diocese of Mainz via the Maria Laach abbey foundry.

St. Stephan lies in the north of Sprendlingen, with the campanile at the southeast and the triangular nave at the northwest. The interior, oriented toward the altar, holds about 450 people. The sources give no opening hours or parking details, so check locally before visiting.

The building is part of a partnership of three churches, an unusual arrangement that unites multiple communities under shared management. This collaboration allows resources to be pooled and religious services across the region to be better organized.