Stuttgart Collegiate Church, Gothic church in Stuttgart-Mitte, Germany

Stuttgart Collegiate Church is a Gothic church with two unequal towers: the square west tower with clock faces and a slate spire, and the lower south tower, whose base is the only surviving structure from the Staufer period in Stuttgart. The polygonal choir with tall pointed windows and a red tiled roof adjoins the nave, and an octagonal turret with a cross rises behind it.

A small Romanesque church of the 10th or 11th century stood on the site; around 1240 a three-naved church with a south tower followed. In 1320 the counts of Württemberg moved their collegiate foundation and burial place here from Beutelsbach, and a new Early Gothic chancel rose between 1321 and 1347. Ulrich V added the Late Gothic nave from 1436 to the end of the 15th century, built by Hänslin Jörg and his son Aberlin Jörg.

The church is the main church of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Württemberg. Since the Reformation of 1534, pictures and altars were removed and pews and a gallery added; tombstones were moved inside. From 1574 small statues of all the Counts of Württemberg since Ulrich I line the north wall of the chancel.

The church stands in Stuttgart-Mitte, a short walk from the Schlossplatz and the Old Castle. The main axis runs northeast to southwest, so the tower called the west tower actually sits at the southwest corner, and the south tower stands further north than it. The nave and chancel were rebuilt in modern style after 1944, while the north wall and west tower keep their late Gothic form.

The oldest bell, cast in 1285, hangs in the south tower and is called the Gate Bell: it was rung in the evening to remind citizens outside the walls to return before the gates closed. It is still rung by rope, only on special occasions, and is not part of the regular peal.