Dorfkirche Gägelow, Early Gothic fieldstone church in Sternberg, Germany.

Dorfkirche Gägelow is a Gothic fieldstone church in Gägelow, part of Sternberg. Its walls are rough grey fieldstone with red brick surrounds on the tall, narrow arched windows; a square tower with a dark pointed spire stands on the left, and a tall brick gable with narrow arched windows and a brick cross rises on the right. The main body has a steep red tiled roof, with a lower red tiled roof section at the front left and a small low porch with a red tiled roof at the front. The choir was built around 1260 and the nave around 1270.

The church is first documented on 1 January 1270, when Bishop Hermann of Schwerin assigned it, as Goghelow, to the archdeaconry of the collegiate church of Bützow. Its choir was built around 1260 and the nave around 1270; a fire in the mid-14th century led to the renewal of the roof structures of both between 1353 and 1354, with charred traces still visible in the roof space. After the Thirty Years' War the tower had collapsed and only its lowest part stood; the building was restored and rededicated on 21 February 1858 in the presence of Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II.

The village name likely derives from the Old Slavic gogoli, meaning duck, linking Gägelow to a "duck place"; by 1270 the church appears as Goghelow in a document of Bishop Hermann of Schwerin. A 1684 repainting gave rise to the local saying "as colourful as the Gägelow church".

The church belongs to the parish of Dabel in the Sternberg church district of the Nordkirche. It stands in the Gägelow district of Sternberg, in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The building is a fieldstone church with brick window surrounds and a west tower with a pointed spire; the entrance is through a small porch with a red tiled roof at the front.

The church's 1684 painted interior gave rise to the Mecklenburg saying "So bunt als die Gägelow'sche Kirche" ("as colourful as the Gägelow church"). The 1857 restoration was carried out by Schwerin master builder Voß, with painting by Theodor Fischer, who also worked in Schwerin Castle and its castle church and lodged with the tenant farmer Schmidt in Gägelow.