St. Bonifatius, Heidelberg
St. Bonifatius is a Catholic church in the Weststadt of Heidelberg. It is a Romanesque Revival basilica with a transept and a facade with double towers, which was designed by Ludwig Maier and built between 1899 and 1903. The church is part of the parish of Philipp Neri in the pastoral unit of Heidelberg within the deaconate of Heidelberg-Weinheim, in the Archdiocese of Freiburg. History In Heidelberg, which had been a centre of the Reformation, the was the only Catholic church until the 19th century. At the end of the 19th century, a new suburb, the Weststadt, was established to the west of the . From the beginning, it was planned that the suburb would have both a protestant and a Catholic church, with a marketplace in front of the churches. St. Bonfatius was dedicated on 19 October 1903. The curate was only appointed in 1909 - August Dietrich, who served in the role until 1950. By 1925, the parish had grown to over 8000 members, so that in 1934, the new parish of was split off for the suburb of Bergheim. In 1962, also received its own parish, based at . In 2005, the three parishes were once again