Heiligen-Geist-Kirche, Baroque church in Barmstedt, Germany.

The Heiligen-Geist-Kirche is a rectangular Baroque hall church of brick, 34 metres long, with a polygonal east end and basket-arch windows. Its interior is covered by a wooden barrel vault. The 53-metre round tower, partly Romanesque inside, stands at the west end and holds the main portal.

The building was constructed in 1717-1718 and reused the foundations of a 12th-century fieldstone church. The original tower remained, while the nave was completely redesigned in Baroque style.

The gallery parapets carry a cycle of 30 paintings of the life of Jesus, ten after the Merian Bible and eight after the Stern picture Bible, framed by simple rhymes on a gold ground with the donors' names below. The ceiling shows an Old Testament sky, repainted in 1754, whitewashed later and restored in the 1980s.

The nave is entered through the main portal in the tower, with further portals on the north and south walls; the counts' box has its own entrance on the south exterior wall. The tower is 53 metres high and its interior partly dates from the Romanesque period. Check service times before visiting, as worship limits access.

The tower's slender spire earned it the nickname 'Schusterahle' (cobbler's awl), a nod to Barmstedt's former role as a shoemaking town; the term is rarely used today. The tower's inner core partly dates to the Romanesque period and may once have served as a defensive tower, though whether it ever did is unclear.