Klosterkirche St. Georg und Pancratius, Romanesque monastery church in Hecklingen, Germany

Klosterkirche St. Georg und Pancratius is a Romanesque monastery church in Hecklingen with two towers on its western facade and a square floor plan centered on a crossing. The interior space is shaped by Saxon design principles visible in the arrangement of columns and arches throughout the structure.

Founded around 1070 as a Benedictine nunnery at Kakelingen, the community moved to Hecklingen and began building the basilica between 1150 and 1176. At the end of the 13th century the nuns adopted the Augustinian rule, becoming an Augustinian choir convent. A fire in 1496 destroyed parts of the monastery but spared the church. In 1559 abbess Barbara Schildes converted to Lutheranism and the convent was secularised.

The fourteen stucco angels along the nave arcades, dated 1225/30, are about 1.25 m tall; the four corner figures hold lurs, the others scrolls, read as an apocalyptic angel choir. Five 12th-century donor heads and filigree capitals under the galleries of 1240/50 are also worth spotting.

The former abbey church stands on the Romanesque Road in Hecklingen and is used today by the Protestant parish and for concerts. Visitors should arrange viewing with the parish, since regular opening hours are not documented; the 1992–1996 renovation restored the neo-Romanesque interior colour scheme.

The 1884 organ was built by Wilhelm Rühlmann of Zörbig as his Opus 59, with the case, altar, pulpit and stalls carved by Gustav Kuntzsch of Wernigerode. The instrument stands in a church whose interior was refitted in the Historicist taste during the 1878–1883 restoration.