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Heilig Geist (Holy Spirit) is the name of a 
File:St. Josef-Frankfurt Pfarrei Logo+Text lang.png, Logo of the Parish of St. Josef Frankfurt am Main
File:St. Josef-Frankfurt Heilig Geist Logo+Text kurz.png, Logo of the church location
File:BistumLimburg-logo.svg, Logo of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Limburg
The church was designed intentionally modest, different from more monumental works by Weber such as Heilig Kreuz in Bornheim. The church is connected to the minister's house.
St. Josef Frankfurt
Roman Catholic churches in Frankfurt Churches in the Diocese of Limburg
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church in the suburb Riederwald
Riederwald is a quarter of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It is part of the ''Ortsbezirk
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of Frankfurt am Main
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, Hesse
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, Germany. The parish church of the Riederwald congregation is part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Limburg
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. On 1 January 2015 the parish became a ''Kirchort'' (church location), part of the parish ''St. Josef, Frankfurt''.
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History
In 1923, the parish bought a property to build a church, designed by Martin Weber on a commissioned by minister Georg Heinrich Hörle. Groundbraking was on 13 July 1930. It was dedicated by BishopAntonius Hilfrich
Antonius Hilfrich (also Anton Hilfrich; 3 October 1873 – 5 February 1947) was a German priest and Roman Catholic Bishop of Limburg, Germany.
Ordained in 1898, in March 1930 he was appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Limburg and Titular Bishop of Se ...
on 20 September 1931.
The church was severely damaged during World War II. It was restored after the war. Wilhelm Kempf, later Bishop of Limburg, was parish priest of the congregation from 1942 to 1949. From 1991, Peter Reulein
Peter Reulein (born 1966) is a German composer, organ improviser, academic teacher and church musician, from 2000 at the church Liebfrauen in Frankfurt am Main. In 2016 he composed for the Catholic Diocese of Limburg the Franciscan oratorio ''La ...
was the church musician, who moved then to the Liebfrauen in the centre of Frankfurt.
On 1 January 2015, four parishes were combined to St. Josef, with locations (''Kirchort'') , Maria Rosenkranz, Heilig Geist and Herz Jesu.
Building
The church was designed intentionally modest, different from more monumental works by Weber such as Heilig Kreuz in Bornheim. The church is connected to the minister's house.
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{{Commonscat, Heilig-Geist-Kirche (Frankfurt-Riederwald)St. Josef Frankfurt
Roman Catholic churches in Frankfurt Churches in the Diocese of Limburg