St. Petri und Pauli, Medieval church in Alberstedt, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

St. Petri und Pauli is a church in Alberstedt featuring architecture with typical medieval characteristics including Gothic elements such as pointed arch windows and stonework. The building displays the craftsmanship of earlier centuries with solid stone walls and a classical church structure.

Built as a chapel between 1262 and 1297, the church gained a parish in 1327 and a four-sided choir end in 1506, when the nave roof was probably raised. Storms damaged it in 1720 and 1723, and after 1990 it fell out of use and decayed until the Kultur- und Heimatverein Alberstedt restored it around 2010.

The church is now rarely used, but the Kultur- und Heimatverein Alberstedt e.V. has looked after it since 2004 and completed its restoration around 2010. The paintings on the horseshoe-shaped gallery, added in 1934 by Karl Völker, show Christ symbols, farming scenes such as a shepherd and a sower, psalm verses, and two views of Alberstedt with angels above them.

The church stands in Alberstedt, part of Farnstädt in the Saalekreis, and is rarely used, so visits depend on the Kultur- und Heimatverein Alberstedt e.V., which restored it around 2010. The interior is entered through a plain porch on the north side, and an outside stair on the tower's south side leads to the gallery.

The tower holds two medieval bells in a three-bay bell frame of 1751. The smaller, cast in the early 13th century, carries Romanesque majuscules and animal symbols that remain undeciphered; the larger dates from the second half of the 13th century and bears divine names in mirror-image majuscules. A third bell, cast by Schilling of Apolda in 1905, was surrendered in 1917.