Schifferkirche, Lutheran church in Arnis, Germany.

The Schifferkirche stands at the southwest end of Arnis's single street on a hill that may have been an old fortification guarding the Schlei narrows. The flat-roofed Baroque hall church is brick on three sides, while the north wall keeps its original 1673 half-timbering. A tower and south porch were added in 1825, and ship models hang from the ceiling.

Duke Christian Albrecht allowed Kappeln families who had fled serfdom to settle on the Arnis peninsula in 1667, and they began building a church in 1669. Bricks ordered from Gotland were lost when the transport ship sank, so the church was built in half-timbering and finished in 1673. Brick walls replaced the timber in 1733, except on the north side, and the tower and south porch were added in 1825.

The name Schifferkirche came into use because Arnis skippers donated votive ships from the 18th century onward, thanking God for rescue from distress at sea. The oldest inventory is the pulpit of 1573, a century older than the church; a legend claims an Arnis fisherman netted it after the Burchardiflut of 1634, though no fishermen lived in Arnis then. Danish services are still held here occasionally.

The church stands at the southwestern end of Arnis's single street, on a hill that was probably an old fortification guarding the Schlei narrows. The cemetery around it still holds old gravestones, several carved with ships. The north wall keeps its original timber framing from the 1670s, while the tower and south porch date from 1825.

The oldest votive ship, the "Ansul Arnis" from the 18th century, is now an exhibit in the Schleswig State Museum. The most splendid model, the "Privilegia", was stolen from the church in 1971 and later replaced by the "Santa Cruz". On one of the remaining models the Danish Dannebrog flag still flies.