Alte Inselkirche Baltrum, Lutheran church in Baltrum, Germany.

Alte Inselkirche is a red-brick church with a steeply pitched roof of orange-red tiles, built in 1826 and seating about 50 people. Its long facade has two tall, narrow windows with white frames and rounded tops. A simple wooden frame beside the church holds the bell, cast in 1768 and taken from a Dutch sailing ship that ran aground off Baltrum.

The present church, at least the fifth on Baltrum, was built in 1826 after a storm surge destroyed its predecessor in 1825. The island's eastward drift repeatedly forced the village and church to be relocated; the site of an earlier church now lies on the beach of neighbouring Norderney. The 1768 bell came from a Dutch sailing ship stranded off Baltrum.

Since 1929/30 the larger Neue Große Inselkirche has served the island's many guests, and the Alte Inselkirche is now used only for weddings and baptisms, Monday and Friday evening devotions, and cultural events. The bell of 1768 hangs in a simple wooden frame beside the church; the frame is regarded as the island's landmark.

The church seats about 50 people and is used for weddings, baptisms, Monday and Friday evening devotions and cultural events, so visits depend on those occasions. The bell hangs in a simple wooden frame beside the building, visible from the lawn. Baltrum is car-free, so you reach the church on foot from the ferry.

The chalice in the altar vessels was donated by Katharina of Sweden, wife of Count Edzard II of East Frisia, between 1559 and 1599, so it predates the 1826 church. The organ is also older than its setting here: Hermann Hillebrand built the positive with 196 pipes, twelve of them wooden, in 1950, and it stood in Emden's cemetery chapel from 1968 until Martin ter Haseborg overhauled it and moved it here on 2 October 2004.