Christuskirche, Lutheran church in Hallstatt, Austria

Christuskirche is a Protestant parish church built from 1859 to 1863 to a design by Munich architect Ludwig Lange, replacing the 1785 prayer house. Its Romanesque Revival exterior gives way to a transverse interior: the main entrance sits mid-way along the south side, the oak altar in a small apse on the north side, and a round-arched arcade divides the flat-ceilinged room into a narrower southern aisle filled with galleries and a wider northern one. It seats 550.

The Protestant community built its first prayer house in 1785 following Emperor Joseph II's Edict of Toleration, though the current building dates to 1863. This construction marked a turning point for a religious group that had faced significant restrictions in earlier centuries.

The church is also called Christuskirche, after Christ. Its organ, bought from the Catholic church in Ebensee in 1810, had already served in the 1785 prayer house. Since 1977 three bells named Glaube, Hoffnung and Liebe have rung here.

The church is a short walk from the market square and offers information boards in multiple languages at the entrance during visiting hours. Inside, the spaces are compact and easy to navigate, allowing visitors to explore the interior at their own pace.

The four bells arrived a year late, in 1864. In World War I the church had to hand over all four bells and 35 organ pipes, replaced with zinc pipes; the bells cast in 1934 were melted down again in 1943. Only from 1977 did three new bells ring again, named Faith, Hope and Love.