Kilianskirche, Gothic Revival church in Bad Salzuflen, Germany

Kilianskirche is a neo-Gothic hall church built of rough brown stone blocks in Schötmar, a district of Bad Salzuflen. A square west tower with narrow round-arched windows and a clock carries an octagonal upper storey crowned by a steep copper-clad spire with small dormers. The main body has a steep gabled roof, a pointed-arch window and tall buttresses along the side wall; inside, the central nave has a wooden saddle ceiling and the side aisles flat ceilings.

A wooden church stood here around 800, followed before the year 1000 by a small hall building 10 metres wide. After 1150 a three-aisled, cruciform basilica rose on those foundations, resembling the Kilianskirche in Lügde; it was demolished in 1847 as dilapidated. The present church was built in 1850–54 to designs by Friedrich Heinrich Ludwig Goedecke, with renovations in 1960, 1980 and 2004.

The parish keeps the Katharinenglocke of 1437 in the tower, the oldest bell still in use in Bad Salzuflen and the town's oldest continuously used monument; it rings at fis1 and weighs about 1,500 kg with a diameter of 1,270 mm. In 1980 the Rincker foundry in Sinn added two bells, g1 and a1, following the former medieval arrangement. Friedrich August Wessel was Second Pastor in 1844 and First Pastor from 1864 to 1866 before becoming Generalsuperintendent of the Lippische Landeskirche.

The church stands in Schötmar, a district of Bad Salzuflen, and is open as an Offene Kirche on weekdays from 10 am to 5 pm and on Saturdays from 10 am to noon. The west tower with its copper-clad spire marks the entrance side; the nave lies to its right.

The oldest object in Bad Salzuflen still in continuous use is not a building but the Katharinenglocke, cast in 1437 and taken over from the predecessor church. It hangs in the tower today, weighs about 1,500 kg and sounds the note fis1; in 1980 the Rincker foundry added two bells, g1 and a1, restoring a medieval peal.