Stadtkirche Göppingen, Medieval church in Göppingen, Germany.

Stadtkirche Göppingen is a Protestant Renaissance church built from 1618 to 1619 to plans by Heinrich Schickhardt, oriented south to north because the tight site beside the castle allowed no east-facing choir. Its grey stone tower, taken over from the town fortifications and the earlier Johanneskapelle, was raised above the new high roof in 1619 and carries a clock face with a red rim on each visible side. The tower stands behind a pink-walled building with a red tiled roof and dormer windows.

A chapel on the site, first mentioned in 1348, became the town church after the Reformation reached Göppingen in 1534. Duke Friedrich Karl commissioned Heinrich Schickhardt to build a larger church; the foundation stone was laid on 13 February 1618, and Philipp Schickhart consecrated it on 7 November 1619 after twenty months of construction. An existing fortification tower was incorporated into the south-west corner and raised in 1619.

The church is the main church of the Protestant deanery of Geislingen-Göppingen and the easternmost station on the Council of Europe's Heinrich-Schickhardt-Kulturstrasse. Besides central services, it hosts concerts, lectures, school youth culture days (school@church) and exhibitions, and the district Protestant youth organisation holds its youth services there.

The church sits in the centre of Göppingen, north of the Hauptstraße and south of the castle, so it is reached on foot from the pedestrian zone. The tight plot forced a south-north axis, meaning the altar end faces north rather than east. Enter from the street side and look up at the tower, raised in 1619 above the new high roof.

The tower incorporated into the southwest corner began as part of the town fortification and later belonged to the Johanneskapelle; in 1619 it had to be raised above the new high roof. On 9 April 1769 the roof structure cracked loudly during the Good Friday service, causing a panic in which four people died at the inward-opening doors.