Saint Justin's Church, Frankfurt-Höchst

St. Justin's is important both for its stonework (the Carolingian capitals and the late gothic north doorway), and that it is one of the few nearly completely surviving early medieval churches - which has been continuously used for around 1200 years.

It did not really serve as a parish church then, but as a symbol for the power of the Electorate of Mainz proximate to the royal court at Frankfurt.

The fact that today St. Margaret's Church is once again named after its original patron saint can be traced back to an initiative of the Höchst parish priest Emil Siering (1841-1899).

St. Justin's was restored in the 1930s and 1980s and today belongs to the parish of St. Josef in the Frankfurt district of Roman Catholic Diocese of Limburg.

The entrance was originally at the west end of the central nave,[1] but is now on the north side of the church at the northern sanctuary.

In the 1420s the southern Carolingian sanctuary was replaced by a gothic Holy Cross chapel, in the place of today's vestry.

In April 2017, a comprehensive cleaning and restoration was completed by the State Office for Monument Preservation of Hesse in Wiesbaden.

Due to the change in position of the entrance, a richly decorated pointed-arch north doorway was built in around 1442, which is flanked by statues of Paul of Thebes and Anthony the Great.

Construction which commenced in 1441 are the works of the so-called Frankfurt school, under the master builder Madern Gerthener.

The garden of the Justinus Church, located on the Main River side, was created in its planting in the early 1990s.