Herz-Jesu-Kirche, Catholic parish church in Thale, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Herz-Jesu-Kirche is a Catholic parish church on Walther-Rathenau-Straße, built from 1911 to designs by Paderborn diocesan architect Arnold Güldenpfennig. The plastered building, aligned north-south near the Bode, has a cross-shaped hall and a north tower whose pointed-arch stepped portal carries a tympanum of Christ in a mandorla with angels, above it a rose window. The south end closes in a trefoil-shaped trikonchos.

The church was built after a legacy from Wilhelm Josef Nagel of Erfurt in 1899 and the purchase of the site from the Thale ironworks on 1 April 1901. Construction began in August 1911 to a design by Arnold Güldenpfennig, after an earlier church at Obersteigerweg was halted by the building authority. Bishop Karl Joseph Schulte of Paderborn consecrated it on 10 June 1913.

The church is named after the Sacred Heart of Jesus and belongs to the parish of St. Mathilde in Quedlinburg. Its choir windows, made in 1911 by Ferdinand Müller of Quedlinburg, show Saint Barbara, patron of miners and smelters, Queen Mathilde, patron of the mother parish, the Apostle Andrew and Joseph of Nazareth.

The church stands at Walther-Rathenau-Straße 2, near the Bode, aligned north-south with the main entrance and tower on the north side. That entrance is a stepped portal under a pointed arch, with Christ in a mandorla in the tympanum and a rose window above. The interior is plain, so the 1911 stained-glass windows in the choir and the 1967 Resurrection window near the entrance are the details to seek out.

The church's first organ was replaced by an instrument from the Eggert Orgelbau-Anstalt with 58 stops on two manuals. The high altar came from Magdeburg's St. Sebastian Cathedral in 2003 and was consecrated in Thale that November by Bishop Leo Nowak; its carving shows vine branches.