Ringkirche, Romanesque church in Wiesbaden, Germany.

The Ringkirche is a Protestant church built in Romanesque Revival style, with light brown stone walls, a dark slate roof and twin spires rising from a central square tower. Its front facade has a large rose window flanked by two smaller round windows above a projecting entrance porch. Inside, a ribbed vaulted ceiling arches over dark wooden pews and a central aisle leading to the altar.

The Ringkirche was built between 1892 and 1894 to designs by Johannes Otzen, one of the authors of the Wiesbadener Programm. It was the first Protestant church in Germany built on that programme, which placed altar, pulpit and organ together and arranged the seating in a semicircle around them. Consecrated in 1894 with 1,100 seats, the building became a model for Protestant churches until the end of World War I.

The Ringkirche's name comes from its site on the Ringstraße, and its twin towers close the western vista of Rheinstraße. It was the first Protestant church built according to the Wiesbadener Programm, devised by pastor Emil Veesenmeyer, which placed altar, pulpit and organ together so the congregation surrounds them. Today it also hosts concerts, including the Rheingau Musik Festival.

The Ringkirche stands at the western end of the Rheinstraße axis, on the Ringstraße between the Westend and Rheingauviertel districts; the twin towers close the view along the boulevard. The main entrance is on the west side, facing the street axis. The building is used for services and for concerts, including the Rheingau Musik Festival, so check the programme before planning a visit.

The church has no circular plan: it is a Zentralbau, a hall with pews closing a semicircle around altar, pulpit and organ stacked centrally. Otzen kept the main entrance in the west but gave the exterior the look of a west-facing church with a cross-shaped plan to close the Rheinstraße axis. The Walcker organ, restored from 2015, has about 1,800 pipes, a quarter of them replaced.