St Agatha, Roman Catholic church in Mettingen, Germany

St Agatha is a Roman Catholic parish church built from 1891 to 1894 to plans by Wilhelm Rincklake. Its tan and grey stone exterior has a tall central gable with a round-arched, three-section window above a carved portal, a slender pointed spire on the left and a taller square tower with clocks and a pyramidal roof on the right. Inside, a central nave with two square cross vaults is flanked by two aisles of four vaults each, and the separating arches rest alternately on clustered piers and columns.

The current building was designed by Wilhelm Rincklake to replace an earlier 1777 structure and was consecrated in 1895 by Bishop Hermann Jakob Dingelstad. This reconstruction reflects the architectural ideals of the late 19th century.

The parish celebrates its patron saint's feast day on 5 February, the name day of St Agatha. Inside, a wooden Marian lament from the 15th century, a Madonna with pomegranate on a crescent moon from around 1460, and two apostles from the high altar of the 1777 predecessor church are kept. The church also holds a small Vesper image from the early 16th century made in an Osnabrück workshop.

The church stands in the centre of Mettingen, and the Michaelsbrunnen fountain of 1902 marks the site of the altar of the 1777 predecessor church directly in front of the building. The nave is flanked by two aisles with four bays each, so the interior is easy to survey from the entrance. The organ of 2010 stands in the tower room, with the free-hanging Prinzipal 16' pipes placed to the left and right of the tower opening.

The stone pulpit carved in 1897 was dismantled in 1957; its columns now support the baptismal font. Three of its reliefs, including "Jesus and the People" and "Jesus at Jacob's Well", were set into the new altar island in 2009.