St. Augustine’s of Canterbury

St. Augustine’s of Canterbury stands in Wiesbaden, Germany, as a heritage-listed Anglican parish church in Gothic Revival style. Theodor Goetz designed the building, whose cornerstone was laid on 3 June 1863. Construction finished in 1865, giving British visitors to the spa town an English-speaking place of worship.

British subjects had held English-language services in Wiesbaden since 1836, before this building existed. The Kurhausaktiengesellschaft held the property in trust because the parish initially lacked legal incorporation. The First World War ended worship there when the British spa visitors who formed the congregation departed. The state later expropriated the property during the National Socialist period.

After the Second World War, the U.S. military used the building as a chapel until 1955. Ownership then returned to the Bishop of London. A fire gutted the church in 1966, but donations and insurance proceeds enabled its restoration. The multinational congregation includes members from eight countries, including Germany, Britain, the United States and Nigeria. In 2003, the parish called Martha L. Hubbard as its first woman rector.