Apostelkirche, Romanesque Revival church in Kaiserslautern, Germany

Apostelkirche is a Protestant church built from 1897 to plans by Ludwig Ritter von Stempel in Romanesque Revival style. It is a central building on a Greek-cross plan, with a squat octagonal tower over the crossing, smaller towers on the cross arms, and a gable front on Pariser Straße featuring a large portal with steps and a huge rose window.

Apostelkirche was built from 1897 to plans by Ludwig Ritter von Stempel in Romanesque Revival style and consecrated in 1901. A 1944 bomb attack badly damaged it; it was rebuilt in simplified forms between 1952 and 1956 with a completely redesigned interior. The two towers were restored in the early 1960s, and after a 1991 fire a chapel was installed in the west wing.

The church's name refers to the twelve apostles, whose reliefs decorate the pulpit parapet carved by Kaiserslautern sculptor Richard Menges. Since 1994 an abstract cycle on the Lord's Prayer by local artist Erika Klos hangs in the nave. The smallest bell is rung for baptisms, the middle one 30 minutes before services, and all three ten minutes before worship begins.

The church stands on rising ground between Pfründner, Spital, Kennel and Pariser streets; the main portal with its stair and rose window faces Pariser Straße. The three bells, cast in 1900 by Johann Georg Pfeifer, ring ten minutes before services and on Saturdays at 17:50 to usher in Sunday. The smallest bell is rung for baptisms.

The three bells, cast in 1900 by Johann Georg Pfeifer of Kaiserslautern, are the only surviving turn-of-the-century set in a Protestant church in southwest Germany. The two large bells were seized in 1942 and found again in 1947 at the Hamburg bell cemetery; the smallest fell into the nave during the 1944 air raid and stayed intact.