Holy Cross Church, Frankfurt-Bornheim

The Holy Cross Church (German: Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche) is a Catholic church in the Bornheim district of Frankfurt am Main (Germany) in the Bornheimer Hang settlement. From 1929 to 1950 and again from 2007 to 2015, it was a branch church of the parish of St. Josef in Frankfurt am Main. In between, the church had its own parish from 1950 to 2007. From 2007 to 2025, it was the seat of the meditation centre of the Diocese of Limburg, and since 2011 it has been a church location for the International English-speaking Catholic Parish, which is expected to continue until mid-2026. The future of the church building after that was still uncertain at the end of 2025. It is located in the Diocese of Limburg.

The church was built by Martin Weber from 1928 to 1929, on a rise then known as Bornheimer Hang. It was finally completed on 25 August 1929 and handed to the Catholic congregation of Bornheim. It was damaged during Second World War and subsequently rebuilt with the help of donations. The Holy Cross Church is considered an important example of modern Catholic sacred architecture from the late 1920s. Martin Weber's design is attributed to New Objectivity or avant-garde church architecture of the interwar period and is part of the urban planning program New Frankfurt (German: Neues Frankfurt), which is considered part of the New Building (German: Neues Bauen) movement in architecture. The church is in the context of modernist architecture, without belonging to the Bauhaus style in the narrower sense. Its design is similar to the Frauenfriedenskirche (Church of Our Lady of Peace) in Frankfurt-Bockenheim.