Sankt Michael

Sankt Michael is a Roman Catholic church in Frankfurt am Main’s Nordend district, recognised as a cultural monument under Hessian law. Clinker brick frames its rounded, cross-shaped plan beside surrounding expressionist residential buildings.

Rudolf Schwarz won the architectural competition, introducing a centrally placed altar influenced by the Liturgical Movement. Construction followed, and Bishop Wilhelm Kempf consecrated the church in October 1954. A stone from St. Bernhard formed the cornerstone, linking the new building to its mother church. The bright interior receives even light through a high band of glass blocks above the walls.

The three-conch choir places Maria Schwarz’s altar at the centre, with the organ in the eastern conch. A weekday chapel occupies the western conch. Beneath the church, a crypt altar holds relics of the Apostle Matthias. Since 2007, the filial church of St. Josef has also provided spaces for baptismal and funeral remembrance, alongside grief counselling.