Protestant Church, Protestant church building in Wald district, Solingen, Germany.

The Protestant Church of Solingen-Wald, known as the Walder Kirche, is a neoclassical building with a Romanesque west tower. The 41-metre tower of greywacke rubble masonry, over two metres thick at its base, carries a baroque copper-clad spire and clock faces; its west portal has a triangular pediment on volutes. The interior has white walls, pale yellow recessed panels, dark pews and a curved gallery on tall columns.

A church at Wald is documented as early as 1019, when Archbishop Heribert of Cologne confirmed it to Deutz Abbey. Around 1150 the abbey built a Romanesque basilica, of which only the west tower survives; the nave was demolished in 1816 after its vault partly collapsed in 1804. Adolph von Vagedes designed the replacement, but its barrel vault collapsed on 5 May 1820; Friedrich Felderhoff redesigned it, and the neoclassical church was consecrated on Reformation Day 1824, the first new church in the Rhineland after the Napoleonic era.

The parish became a united Lutheran-Reformed congregation in 1830 under the Prussian Union, and the church has been the centre of the Wald district since. Its patron changed from John the Baptist to Saint Sebastian in 1420, and the 1926 memorial room in the tower base commemorates the fallen of the First World War.

The church stands on Walder Kirchplatz in the centre of Wald, with the classicist west portal reached by a small flight of steps from the square. The 41-metre tower and the raised apse are the landmarks to orient by. The surrounding streets carry heavy lorry traffic, and the exterior was last fully renovated in 2001–2004.

The tower's masonry is over two metres thick at ground level, at its thickest 2.88 m, and was filled with stone rubble and lime mortar; the greywacke blocks probably came from quarries in the Ittertal. The ground-floor room, once linked to the nave by an arch and likely used as a baptistery, was remodelled in 1926 by Düsseldorf sculptor Siegfried Meinardus as a memorial to the dead of the First World War.