Herz-Jesu-Kirche, Parish church in Tegel, Germany

Herz-Jesu-Kirche is a red-brick Gothic Revival church at Brunowstraße 37 in Tegel. Its front combines a square tower with a clock face and a tall spire clad in pale green copper panels, beside a stepped gable with white-rendered panels and pinnacles. The interior is a three-aisled pillar basilica with ribbed vaults and no transept.

Catholics in Tegel first gathered in 1894 in a schoolroom, then from 1899 in a restaurant ballroom. A church building association collected 1,000 marks, and the Breslau bishopric granted 9,000 marks, enabling a 2,367 m² plot to be bought in 1902. The foundation stone was laid on 14 August 1904; the church was blessed on 7 May 1905 and consecrated on 16 June 1936. Tegel became an independent parish on 1 June 1920.

The parish takes its name from the Heart of Jesus, to whom the church was dedicated at its blessing on 7 May 1905. Teacher Max Jähnert founded a church choir and gave Sunday concerts in Brandenburg and Mecklenburg to raise money for the first organ. Since 1 July 2004 the parishes of St. Joseph and St. Marien have again been attached to Herz Jesu.

The church is located in the Tegel area and can be reached on foot or by public transport. Visitors should check in advance whether tours or visits outside service times are available.

The tower's pointed roof is clad in copper sheeting, which turns pale green with age. The bell foundry Otto of Hemelingen cast bells for the church in 1904/1905 and 1928; of the three from 1904/1905, two were melted down for armaments in the First World War and only the small a-bell survived both wars.