St. Bonifatius is a Catholic church on Luisenplatz in Wiesbaden, in the Diocese of Limburg. The Duke of Nassau gave the parish the grounds after an earlier Neoclassical church by Friedrich Ludwig Schrumpf collapsed on February 11, 1831, probably because of poor foundations on former ponds. Philipp Hoffmann was commissioned on May 24, 1843. The foundation was laid on June 5, 1845, and Bishop Peter Josef Blum consecrated the interior on June 19, 1849. The facade was completed in 1856 and the towers in 1866.
The style is Gothic Revival, with Romanesque elements. The twin steeples are 68 meters high, and a rib vault rests on 22 columns.
An air raid on February 2, 1945 destroyed the windows, the roof and part of the vault. The postwar work included a simpler vault in 1949 and a new altar by Elmar Hillebrand in 1967.
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