St. Nikolai, Parish church in Moorfleet, Hamburg, Germany

St. Nikolai is a Lutheran hall church in Hamburg-Moorfleet, built as a half-timbered structure with a red-brick tower. The tower carries a clock face, a round window and a slender spire clad in green copper; the nave beside it has a red-tiled roof and a row of tall windows. Inside, a white, gold and dark-wood altarpiece with twisted columns and a Crucifixion painting rises to near the ceiling.

A church named St. Nikolai in Murenflet is first documented in 1331, when it was named in a bell charter for the Marschlande. Storm damage in 1648 led to a rebuild: the present nave was erected in 1680 around the old one under Lorenz Dohmsen and consecrated on 10 December 1680. The wooden tower was replaced in 1885 by the 50-metre neo-Gothic tower visible today.

The church keeps its 1622 pulpit by Hein Baxmann, moved twice and rebuilt each time; three of its four relief panels are original. The 1625 churchwardens' pews beside the altar show apostles on the left and Old Testament figures on the right. A brass baptismal bowl made in Nuremberg around 1470 was taken to Denmark during the Thirty Years' War and later returned to Moorfleet.

St. Nikolai stands at the southern edge of Moorfleet on Moorfleeter Kirchenweg, the westernmost church of the Marschlande. Its 50-metre tower is visible from the A 1 motorway near the Hamburg-Südost interchange, which helps with orientation. The nave is entered from the street side; the sacristy, built in 1769 as a confessional, lies to the right of the altar.

The brass baptismal bowl was made in Nuremberg around 1470 and disappeared to Denmark during the Thirty Years' War before returning to Moorfleet. The church also keeps three brass chandeliers, the two older ones dated 1653 and 1664, the youngest a 20th-century copy.