# Heilige Familie

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Heilige Familie stands as a Roman Catholic parish church in Reichelsdorf, a district of Nuremberg.

Its neo-Romanesque design uses unplastered sandstone brickwork.

The building presents a nave, a recessed polygonal choir, a gabled roof, and a bell tower.

Rolf Behringer designed the original church building.

The church was first consecrated as St Joseph’s before its later expansion and renaming.

The parish later adopted the name Heilige Familie.

Peter Leonhardt’s work remodelled and extended the nave westwards during the late 1960s.

The planned extension of the tower never happened.

Floor-height windows line the nave’s northern side, while a weekday chapel occupies the southern side.

A wooden sculpture stands behind the altar.

A late-Gothic-inspired Marian image decorates the right front wall, while a late-seventeenth-century Austrian crucifix dominates the southern wall.

An organ gallery fills the western side.

Stations of the Cross line the nave.

The church holds protected-monument status in Bavaria.

Its parish belongs to the Nuremberg-South Deanery within the Diocese of Eichstätt.

A parish community centre was built beside the church during the 1990s.

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