St. Michael Kirche was built in the 1960s as a Catholic parish church for the northern residential quarter of Völklingen, a small industrial city in the Saarland. The building sits slightly above the town centre on a quiet side street, surrounded by overgrown grass and mature trees.
The architecture combines a tall, dark brick tower with a perforated concrete facade and a grid-patterned annex — a restrained but graphic modernism typical of postwar German church construction. Three white cross reliefs mark the base of the tower.
Discovered on a morning walk during a visit to the nearby Völklinger Hütte UNESCO World Heritage steelworks.
