Dorfkirche Kirchdorf, Gothic church in Kirchdorf, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

The Dorfkirche Kirchdorf is the only church on the island of Poel, a brick building whose late Romanesque west tower survives from the second quarter of the 13th century. Around 1400 a three-bay brick hall replaced the older nave, with buttresses, pointed-arch windows and vaulting; the square tower was raised six metres, given four gables and an eight-sided helm reaching 47 metres, called a bishop's mitre.

The church was first mentioned in 1259 in a register of churches and monasteries of the Diocese of Lübeck, so the original building went up between about 1210 and 1258, after Prince Heinrich Borwin I settled German colonists on Poel. Of that late Romanesque structure only the tower survives; around 1400 a larger brick church replaced the nave, and the tower was raised by six metres to its 47-metre helm. The Reformation reached Poel after 1533 without iconoclasm, and a 1660 storm caused damage whose repair costs were still being sued over in 1662.

The church keeps two medieval carved altars and a Gothic triumphal cross from the 15th century. A small Marian altar of around 1470 shows scenes from Mary's life; in the central shrine she wears a ray halo and holds the Christ Child with an apple. After the Reformation was introduced on Poel after 1533, the old furnishings were not removed.

The church sits in the village center and is easily reached via the main road through Kirchdorf. Parking is available near the adjacent cemetery grounds, making a visit straightforward.

In a niche to the right of the main altar lies a 13th-century grave slab of Gotland limestone with a disc-cross, moved there from the church centre in 1850. The Mecklenburg archivist Friedrich Crull suggested in the 19th century that it may be the oldest Christian grave monument in Mecklenburg; comparable slabs are otherwise known only from Denmark.