Kreuzkirche in Schwabing, Protestant church in Schwabing-West, Germany

The Kreuzkirche is an evangelical Lutheran church in Schwabing-West, set slightly back from the street. Theodor Steinhauser designed it in 1968 as a white-plastered concrete skeleton building with brick-filled walls on a hexagonal plan, narrow windows below the flat roof and a high hall lined with clinker brick inside. A tall exposed-concrete campanile stands beside it, its clock face set near the top.

The congregation began as an offshoot of St. Markus and gained its own status on 1 April 1933. A wooden emergency church from 1930 stood on the site until a bombing raid destroyed it in July 1944. From 1946 the congregation used a barracks donated by Switzerland, and in 1950 Otto Bartning built the first permanent church on the foundation walls of a burned-out school gymnasium. The present church by Theodor Steinhauser followed in 1968.

The congregation grew out of a 1933 offshoot of St. Markus parish. The community hall, rebuilt from the 1950 Bartning church, has borne the name Albert-Lempp-Saal since February 2009, honouring a co-author of the Osterbotschaft Münchner Laien, a lay manifesto against Nazi terror. The parish runs a daycare centre and a public library.

The church stands slightly back from the street front, with the tall exposed-concrete campanile beside it as the landmark to look for. The congregation runs a kindergarten and a public library, so parts of the site are busy on weekday mornings. The interior is a high hall with clinker-brick walls.

The campanile's top cube-shaped segment holds three bronze bells cast in 1967 by the Erdinger Glockengiesserei, tuned to dis1, fis1 and gis1. The clock face with white Roman numerals and gold hands sits below a recessed opening near the flat top.