Heilig Geist, Fulda

The Baroque Church of the Holy Spirit in Fulda was built between 1729 and 1733 as a hospital church on the site of its 13th-century Gothic predecessor. The high altar is dedicated to the 3rd person of the Most Holy Trinity, the right side altar to the church patroness Margaret and the left side altar to St. Joseph. The church was intended as a meeting place for the 32 poor who lived in the attached hospital. The first pastor of the hospital was Johann Adam Henckel. In 1803, the magistrate of the city of Fulda assigned the St. Spirit Church as the meeting place for the Marian Men's and Young Men's Sodality, which held its last meeting on Passion Sunday 1803 in the University Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, hence the old name Sodality Church. Michael Henkel was the organist of the Sodality until 1851. In 1835 the Sisters of Mercy of St. Vincent de Paul took over the hospital and the sacristy service. On January 1, 1906, it becomes the church of the parish of Heilig Geist Fulda, before becoming a branch church of the inner city parish of St. Simplicius, Faustinus and Beatrix in 2015.