Saint Catherine Church, Parish church and heritage monument in Germany.

Saint Catherine Church is a parish church on Lange Straße, left of the Kocher. Its 13th-century crossing tower, built of tan and brown masonry, carries a gold-faced clock, a band of small arches and a steep dark four-sided spire; the neo-Gothic nave by Heinrich Dolmetsch replaced the old one in 1896–1898, while the Gothic choir stayed.

A church stood here by around 900; the present one was founded around 1240 by the Barons of Westheim, with a late-Romanesque crossing tower. A Gothic choir replaced the apse in 1343. In 1896–1898 Heinrich Dolmetsch rebuilt the nave in Gothic Revival style, kept the 13th-century lower tower stages, and replaced the 1727 baroque dome with a spire.

The parish takes its name from Saint Catherine of Alexandria, shown in a medieval glass roundel in the south choir window, where she disputes with the scholars of Alexandria. Ten late-Gothic panes of about 1340–50 were assembled there in 1900. A wall painting of about 1450 on the choir arch wall shows Christ being nailed to the cross, watched by onlookers.

The church stands at Lange Straße 38 on the left bank of the Kocher, in the old town. The tower's two lower storeys date from the 13th century; the 1896–98 nave by Heinrich Dolmetsch replaced the medieval one. The Gothic choir and its 1449 Louvain altarpiece remain in place. Look for the 1450 wall painting of the Passion on the north choir-arch wall, uncovered in 1961.

The two lower tower storeys above the crossing survive from the 13th century; the two above them were rebuilt in 1727 and again in 1896–98, when Heinrich Dolmetsch added a gallery and replaced the baroque domed roof with the present pointed spire. The Gothic choir was left untouched.