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The Church of the Holy Cross, originally the Church of St. Michael and All Angels, was built in 1899 by Rudolf Zapfe for the Anglican parish of Weimar. Zapfe based the style and proportions of the exterior on the type of a small English church from the early Gothic period. It has belonged to the local Evangelical Lutheran congregation since 1928.

The construction of the Church of the Holy Spirit dates back to the beginning of the 14th century. Originally part of a hospital, it became a church in 1524. In 2007, after extensive restoration work, the North German Nativity Museum was opened in this building.

The Catholic parish church of the Holy Spirit was built in 1898-99 according to the plans of the Stuttgart architect Ulrich Pohlhammer. The neo-Gothic interior of the church was redesigned in 1998-99 with concentric seating and a new altar.

The Church of the Holy Spirit is a building built between 1398 and 1515, mixing Gothic and Baroque architecture. Originally used as a burial place for the electors of the Palatinate, most of the tombs were destroyed along with parts of the church during the Nine Years' War (1688-1697). From 1706, the church was divided into two parts between a Protestant and a Catholic side, but after 1936 it became entirely Protestant.

The Church of the Holy Spirit dates back to the middle of the 15th century. Founded as a private place of worship, members of the Stier donor family could enter the Wolfgangskapelle, the higher of the two chapels attached to the parish hall in the eastern part, directly from their property, today's Stockhammerhaus.

Construction of the Church of the Holy Spirit in Wolfsburg began in 1961 and was finished in 1962. It was planned by the Finish star architect Alvar Aalto. The expressive, curved ceiling - a curved slab formwork made of Oregon pine - and the interior are designed from Aaltos own hand, down to the last detail.

Construction of the Church of the Resurrection in Essen began in 1929. It was finished in 1930. The architect was Otto Bartning. With the ultra-modern concrete skeleton building, Bartning transferred the tradition of the Protestant central church into the objective formal language of modernity. The stained glass windows were designed by Johan (Jan) Thorn Prikker. The glazing was largely lost during World War II and was restored until 2007 according to the original cartoons.

The Church of the Sacred Heart is a Roman Catholic church dating from the end of the 19th century. As the Jakobuskirche in Kissingen, built in the 14th century, was not designed for the ever increasing number of spa guests, a new church building became necessary in the 19th century. The foundation stone was laid on Saturday, 25th March 1882. The construction of the church, under the direction of the master builder Andreas Lohrey, was based on the plans of the Munich architect Karl von Leimbach in the neo-gothic style.

The Church of the Sacred Heart is a Catholic church that dates back to the end of the 19th century. At the initiative of Napoleon, a Catholic parish was founded in the area in 1806, initially based in Jena. In 1817 it was moved to Weimar. However, it was not until the second half of the 19th century that the congregation had so many members that a new church was planned.

The Church of the Saviour is a Gothic church that was built in the 14th century on the site of an old Romanesque church. It is the most historically and architecturally important religious building in the town of Duisburg and, together with the Willibrordi Cathedral in Wesel, is one of the most significant late Gothic religious buildings in the Lower Rhine region. In the middle of the 19th century, it was extensively revised to its original late Gothic appearance. At the end of the Second World War, Allied bombing caused severe damage to the church, destroying part of the tower and almost the entire vault. Restoration was completed in 1960, but the tower spire remained unfinished.