Lutherkirche, Protestant church in Fellbach, Germany

Lutherkirche is a church building in Fellbach that combines a medieval tower with an 18th century Baroque interior. The structure displays various architectural styles added over centuries of use and renovation.

The church was completed in 1518 as St. Gallus Church, part of a fortified churchyard with walls and a moat. Its 40-metre tower followed in 1519 and the choir in 1524. Around 1650 the Gothic nave was rebuilt as a transverse church, and in 1779 Johann Adam Gross the Younger replaced it with a broad transverse church seating over a thousand. In 1927 it was renamed Lutherkirche.

The name Lutherkirche dates only from 1927, when the new church in the north of Fellbach was called Pauluskirche and the old St.-Gallus-Kirche was renamed. Inside, the seven Stations of the Cross paintings were donated in 1842 by Emanuel Wilhelm Auberlen, then living in Augsburg; made around 1700 in the Augsburg academy, they hang in Passion order beneath the organ gallery.

The building is accessible during worship times and is best visited during regular services and events. Visitors should check ahead about current schedules to ensure they can see the interior.

The pulpit's octagonal basket was reworked for its place on the north wall; its matching sound cover keeps images for its seven visible sides, where winged angel heads frame arched gates crowned with broken pediments, meant as the angel-guarded gates of the heavenly Jerusalem. Above them stands the risen Christ with the cross banner, and a dove is painted beneath the cover.