Christuskirche, Protestant church in Alt-Oberhausen, Germany

Christuskirche is a Protestant church built in 1864 to plans by Cologne architect Maximilian Nohl, completed by Essen district master builder August Kind. The red-brown brick building combines round-arched neo-Romanesque and classical elements with iron construction. Its square tower, topped by a shortened slate pyramid roof reaching 36.5 metres, carries a clock face; the nave has six arched windows with light frames.

Protestant services in Oberhausen began in 1853 in the Rubbert house on Mülheimer Chaussee; a school with a brick bell turret followed on Nohlstraße in 1857. Pastor August Koenigs, elected in 1859, raised funds through collections in the Netherlands and the Gustav-Adolf-Verein for a church, built from 1863 to 1864 under August Kind after architect Maximilian Nohl died. A 1943 bombing gutted it; the 1950–51 rebuild removed the neo-Gothic pinnacles.

The five apsidal choir windows were made in 1959 by the Dutch glass painter Henk Schilling, son of Henk Schilling the Elder. They depict the Expulsion from Paradise, the dove as a sign of the new covenant, Christ as the Lamb of God at the centre of time, the dove of the Holy Spirit, and the hope of Paradise. They are his last work in a concretising pictorial language.

The building is accessible to visitors during regular services and at scheduled times; check with the parish for specific visiting hours and group tours. Planning your visit around announced events allows for a more complete experience of the church.

The first organ, built by the Beyenburg firm Ibach in 1876, had 21 stops on two manuals and pedal; Paul Faust converted its action to pneumatic in 1908 and raised the count to 30. That instrument burned with the church on Easter Monday 1943. The Aachen firm Georg Stahlhuth & Sohn supplied the present organ in 1951, with 40 stops on three manuals and a Rückpositiv.