St. Liborius, Church building in Gröningen, a town in the Börde district in Saxony-Anhalt

St. Liborius is a rendered, single-nave church with a red-tiled roof and a square tower at the north-east, topped by a dark grey pyramidal roof with a cross. The rounded apse has three stained-glass windows made by Christof Grüger in 1974, and a hanging cross dominates the chancel.

The church was built in 1906 after Catholics arrived in the predominantly Protestant town through factory work in the late 1880s. It marks the return of Catholic life to the town after nearly 300 years since the Reformation had fundamentally altered the faith landscape.

The church was consecrated in 1906 as St. Libori-Sühne-Kirche, a name chosen as atonement for Christian of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, born in Gröningen, who in 1622 looted and destroyed the shrine of Saint Liborius in Paderborn and minted coins from its precious metals. Liborius is the patron of Paderborn Cathedral and the former Diocese of Paderborn, to which Gröningen belonged.

The church stands at Magdeburger Straße 6, on the eastern edge of the old town, with the tower and rounded apse facing the street. The entrance is on the lower right side of the building, so approach from the street rather than the rear. The site is a listed monument (no. 094 55737); visitors should keep to the paved path around the apse.

The organ was bought second-hand from an unknown builder and re-erected in the church by the Löbling firm of Erfurt, rededicated on 26 May 1974. In 1996/1997 the Principal 4′ and Mixtur stops were almost entirely replaced; the instrument has seven stops on one manual and pedal.