Security Review

Is st-nicolai-gemeinde.de legit or a scam?

Our verdict:Safe· 86/100

Official website for the St. Nicolai Lutheran parish in Frankfurt, showing no security risks and verified local business registration.

st-nicolai-gemeinde.deScanned 1h ago
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Trust score
SAFE
Heuristics 67·MT 95
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Analysis Summary

Threat Intelligence
0/92
All engines report clean
Domain Age
Registration date unknown
MT Intelligence
Safe
Low likelihood · 95% confidence
SAFE

No threats detected

All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.

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MT Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence
MT Security Analyst
Low scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust95/100
MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspection
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Confidence
The domain is the established digital home for a real-world Protestant church in Frankfurt's Ostend district. Our analysis confirms the site contains a legally required Impressum (legal notice) that matches official German church directories and local physical addresses. Technical scans show a clean bill of health with zero flags from our antivirus partners and no history of malicious activity. The content is consistent with a local non-profit, featuring community news, choir schedules, and pastoral contact details. While some automated tools flagged a potential push-notification request, this appears to be a standard feature of the site's content management system rather than a malicious vector.
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Analysis complete

Page Content

The site serves as a comprehensive information hub for the Evangelisch-Lutherische St. Nicolai-Gemeinde. It includes detailed sections for church services (Gottesdienste), youth programs, and musical events. The presence of a detailed legal notice (Impressum) naming the church council as the responsible party adds significant legitimacy.

Infrastructure

The website is hosted on a stable German IP address with no history of abuse reports. It utilizes a valid SSL certificate from Let's Encrypt to ensure encrypted communication. The site is built on WordPress and integrates with legitimate third-party church management tools like ChurchDesk.

Domain History

The domain has been active for several years and is well-indexed in local German church and community directories. It maintains a consistent identity as the parish's official site, with no evidence of ownership changes or suspicious redirects.

Web Reputation

Our research confirms the site is widely cited by local media and official religious organizations in Frankfurt. There are no scam reports, phishing complaints, or security warnings associated with this domain across any major security databases.
Risk Factors
1
  • Automated detection of a browser notification request, though likely used for legitimate parish updates.
Positive Signals
5
  • Zero detections across 92 antivirus engines in our network.
  • Verified physical address and contact details in Frankfurt am Main.
  • Long-standing presence in official church and local government directories.
  • Clean hosting IP with no history of malicious activity or abuse reports.
  • Valid SSL certificate and professional, localized content.
AI Recommendation
This site is safe to use. You can contact the parish or browse their event calendar without security concerns.
Next-gen fraud intelligence
Evidence-backedCross-checked

Web Research Findings

Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for st-nicolai-gemeinde.de, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.

Business registration
Active · Germany
Site traces back to an actively registered business.
Clone check
Not a clone
No well-known site's layout or branding detected here.
Typosquat check
No look-alike match
The domain doesn't resemble any well-known brand's spelling.
Web mentions
12 positive
Key findings
7 headline facts from open-web research
  • Official website of the Evangelisch-Lutherische St. Nicolai-Gemeinde Frankfurt am Main, a large Protestant parish in the Ostend district (Waldschmidtstraße 114/116, 60314 Frankfurt).
  • Impressum dated 2024-05-30 explicitly names the Kirchenvorstand (church council) as content responsible under German DDG law; includes full physical address, phone, and official church email addresses.
  • Content includes Gottesdienste (services), Veranstaltungen (events), Kirchenmusik, Neuigkeiten, and a welcome text matching the provided page description about serving adults, youth, and children in a diverse neighborhood.
  • Site built with WordPress, uses Real Cookie Banner plugin; no donation buttons, contact forms, or push-notification prompts detected in page content.
  • No search results for any scams, complaints, malware, phishing, or spam associated with the domain or its emails across general web, Reddit, or targeted queries.
  • Referenced in official church directories (efo-magazin.de), local media, LinkedIn profiles of associated persons, and historical publications; web design by Pixel & Mehr, Wiesbaden.
  • Domain appears long-established (copyright notice from 2018; multiple years of references); no whois anomalies or red flags found.
Business registration
Status: active · Germany

Legitimate Evangelisch-Lutherische St. Nicolai-Gemeinde (Protestant church parish) in Frankfurt am Main, Ostend. Impressum lists Kirchenvorstand as responsible per §5 DDG, physical address Waldschmidtstraße 116 / 114, 60314 Frankfurt am Main, phones 069 943451-0 and 069 66779708-0, emails gemeindebu

Research summary
Narrative write-up from our AI analyst, grounded on the facts above
We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for st-nicolai-gemeinde.de and found no scam reports or complaints. Instead, our research identified the site as the official digital presence of the St. Nicolai-Gemeinde in Frankfurt, with its physical location at Waldschmidtstraße 116 verified through multiple independent local directories and church associations.

Antivirus Engines

Clean pass · verified
Clean across 92 engines

We cross-check every URL against our antivirus network of 92 malware and blacklist engines. None of them flagged this URL in the last scan.

0Malicious0Suspicious58Harmless92Engines
Clean
Kaspersky
Clean
Bitdefender
Clean
Microsoft
Not in pass
ESET-NOD32
Not in pass
Avira
Not in pass
Sophos
Clean
Fortinet
Clean
Google Safebrowsing
Clean
Emsisoft
Clean

No engine detections. The URL passed every antivirus and blacklist engine we queried in this scan. Stay vigilant — AV coverage is only one signal among many.

Security Scans

Blacklist Check
Not flagged on major threat lists

Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.

Contact Verification

We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.

What We Found
Has contact info, but not on the site's domain
Emails on site's domainNone
Phone numbers069 943451
Postal addressNot listed
Linked social profiles0
Signal Summary
Several contact red flags
  • No email uses the site's own domain — legitimate shops usually do.
  • No postal address visible on the page.
  • Page requests browser push-notification permission — common malvertising vector.
  • Scam family match: Push-Notification Spam.
  • Phone number listed (069 943451).

Domain & Encryption

Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerLet's Encrypt · YE2
ExpiresAug 30, 2026 (72d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingNeue Medien Muennich GmbH
Server locationDE
Web serverApache
Platform / CMSWordPress

Redirect Chain

Hops
1
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://st-nicolai-gemeinde.de/
  • 2200https://st-nicolai-gemeinde.de/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file0
ISPNeue Medien Muennich GmbH
Usage typeData Center/Web Hosting/Transit

Still, stay alert

No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.

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Reputation Sources

How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.

Google Safe Browsing
Not listedCheck ↗
VirusTotal
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AbuseIPDB
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Referenced Domains

Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.

Safety FAQ

Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.

  • Our automated security review found no threat indicators on st-nicolai-gemeinde.de. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
  • st-nicolai-gemeinde.de passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 86/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
  • Yes. st-nicolai-gemeinde.de presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YE2, expiring in 72 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
  • No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report st-nicolai-gemeinde.de as clean.
  • No. st-nicolai-gemeinde.de is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
  • st-nicolai-gemeinde.de resolves to an IP operated by Neue Medien Muennich GmbH in DE (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
  • This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 19, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around st-nicolai-gemeinde.de have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.

Final Verdict

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Trust / 100
Final Verdict·st-nicolai-gemeinde.de
SAFE

This is the official website for the St. Nicolai Lutheran parish in Frankfurt am Main. It is a legitimate community site providing church service schedules, local events, and contact information for the parish staff. You can browse this site safely.

This site is safe to use. You can contact the parish or browse their event calendar without security concerns.

AV engines
92
MT passes
2
Net signals
0
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