Kreuzkapelle, Church building in Olpe, Germany

Kreuzkapelle is a small chapel with baroque architecture in Olpe, built in a three-sided rectangular shape and topped with a decorative roof tower. Inside are three ornate wooden altars, detailed ceiling paintings depicting scenes from Christ's Passion, and an organ from 1756 decorated with carved details.

A late-Gothic predecessor chapel was first documented in 1503, with an attached hermit's cell and later the town poorhouse Heilig Kreuz. The present baroque hall church was built in 1737, as an inscription records, in the middle of a former cemetery. Its three altars were consecrated in 1753; the north side altar holds a carved Pietà from around 1480.

The chapel stands within a walled enclosure of natural stone on the Bratzkopf, together with a Stations of the Cross painted on metal panels around 1910. A predecessor chapel in late Gothic style was first documented in 1503, and a hermitage (Klause) was attached to it, later followed by the town's Heilig Kreuz almshouse. The present baroque hall church was built in 1737 in the middle of a former cemetery.

The chapel stands at Am Bratzkopf, within a walled enclosure of natural stone that also holds the Stations of the Cross painted on metal panels around 1910. Old trees and benches are part of the grounds, which lie in the middle of a former cemetery. The site is entered on foot from the surrounding streets of Olpe.

The barrel vault is decorated with octagonal paintings of the Passion by church painter Friedrich Adolf Ruegenberg, not copies after Rubens or Rembrandt. The roof turret holds two small bronze bells rung by an electric automatic mechanism. Among the Baroque figures is a 17th-century carved Christ as physician.