St. Anna
St. Anna stands in Dortmund’s Innenstadt-West as a former Roman Catholic parish church. Its neo-Romanesque façade presents twin towers in ashlar masonry around the main portal. A square beside the building is flanked by the parish house and community centre, while the recessed choir closes in a semicircular apse. The broad central nave has a flat ceiling, and low side aisles open through arcades with alternating supports.
Georg Spelling designed the basilica, which rose in 1912 and 1913. The clerestory windows gather in groups of three, giving the interior a measured rhythm. In 2003, the building passed to the Polish Catholic Mission in Dortmund, and the parish dissolved in 2013. Its architecture holds a visible link between Dortmund’s industrial past, migration history and urban transformation.
- City
- Dortmund
- Content updated
Take this page with you
The myTuur app is free, and once you are standing at a spot its story starts by itself.
Spots like this one are the stops myTuur strings into tours through Dortmund. In the app, each story begins where you stand: walk up to a spot and it starts, read it on screen or listen as you go, then follow the route to the next one.
What is myTuur?
myTuur is a free city-guide app. Its tours are built from spots, and each spot carries a story that starts when you get there, to read or to listen to as you like.