Jakobikirche, Cultural heritage church building in Freiberg, Germany.

Jakobikirche is a Neo-Gothic hall church built 1890–1892 to plans by Theodor Quentin, standing slightly outside Freiberg's old town. The unplastered rubble-stone building with dressed-stone bands follows a cruciform plan with a polygonal choir. Its 57 m tower rises into a slender masonry spire with crockets and a finial cross; the pointed-arch portal, carved by Peter Pöppelmann, shows Mary and Martha on the left, Paul and James on the right, with a pelican above.

Around 1160 a church was founded as the parish church of Christiansdorf, the oldest settlement in the Freiberg area. By 1887 the medieval building was dilapidated, and the town wanted its site at Talstraße/Pfarrgasse for a school. The old church was demolished and the present one built slightly outside the old town to plans by Theodor Quentin between 1890 and 1892.

The parish belongs to the Jakobi-Christophorus congregation within the Freiberg district of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Saxony. The name refers to the apostle James, shown with Paul on the right side of the portal carved by Peter Pöppelmann. Above the entrance, a pelican stands as a symbol of self-sacrificing love.

The church lies slightly outside Freiberg's old town, on the site chosen after the medieval predecessor at Talstraße/Pfarrgasse was demolished for a school. The unplastered rubble-stone walls and the 57 m tower with its green-faced clock make it easy to recognise from the street. Inside, the three-sided galleries and brick vaulting reward a slow walk; check opening times before setting out.

The 1610 altar by Bernhard Diterichs and Sebastian Grösgen is a three-storey wooden structure showing the Last Supper in the predella and a near-sculptural Crucifixion between paired columns. Its ivory crucifix, made around 1710, is attributed to Balthasar Permoser. The medieval furnishings were deliberately carried over from the predecessor church, an early act of heritage conservation.