St. Nikolai, Lutheran church in Bobritzsch-Hilbersdorf, Germany.

St. Nikolai is a long, single-nave church with a west tower whose lower storeys date to the 14th century. The walls are rough rubble masonry, plastered, with tall round-arched windows and a three-sided east end. Inside, a flat barrel vault painted with stencil patterns covers a space lined by two-tier galleries on three sides; the pulpit projects from the north gallery, supported by columns.

The church's core is medieval, with the lower storeys of the west tower showing 14th-century forms. A thorough rebuilding, mainly of the interior, followed in 1710, and further major changes came in 1902/1903, when the former cross roof and tall roof turret were replaced by a copper top. Restoration work was carried out in 1966 and 1979. The organ was built by Gottfried Silbermann in 1716 and rebuilt by Julius Jahn & Sohn in 1915/1916.

The church is dedicated to Saint Nicholas, whose legends fill the 1521 winged altar: the first transformation shows him saving three impoverished nobleman's daughters from being sold, rescuing three condemned soldiers, and as patron of sailors and bakers. The surrounding churchyard holds a World War I memorial, soldier graves and a burial vault.

The church stands in Oberbobritzsch, part of Bobritzsch-Hilbersdorf, in the Mittelsachsen district. The surrounding churchyard is a protected ensemble that also takes in the boundary wall, a war memorial for the dead of the First World War, soldiers' graves, a burial vault and a tools shed. The parish belongs to the Freiberg church district of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Saxony, so enquiries about seeing the interior go through the parish office.

The 1716 Silbermann organ was rebuilt by Julius Jahn & Sohn in 1915/1916, replacing the slider chests with cone chests and the mechanical action with pneumatic action. Eule Orgelbau Bautzen altered it in 1946 and Wilhelm Rühle in 1980; in 2001 Georg Wünning approximated the 1916 disposition and reused Jahn's pipework. Its tuning is set at a1 = 441 Hz.