Schinkelkirche, Parish church in Neuhardenberg, Germany

The Schinkelkirche is a Protestant parish church in Neuhardenberg with a five-bay nave and a west tower topped by an oval temple-like lantern with clock faces. Inside, a white and pale blue barrel-vaulted ceiling covers the nave, and behind the altar a curved wall holds five arched painted panels beneath the inscription "EINEN ANDERN TRÖSTER". A brass chandelier hangs above white pews.

Following the devastating fire that destroyed the village in 1801, architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel designed this church, which was consecrated in December 1809. The building arose from the need to rebuild the damaged community.

The church's name refers to Karl Friedrich Schinkel, who took over the rebuilding after the village fire of 1801 and designed the new interior in 1817 for Karl August von Hardenberg. The east end is a conch divided by pilasters into five fields on each of two levels, with the pulpit and its sounding board in the middle field above. The organ, built by Sauer in 1924, has 14 stops on two manuals and pedal and stands in Schinkel's 1817 case.

The church stands in the centre of Neuhardenberg, its west tower facing the visitor; the entrance is through the dark blue double door beneath the round window. The nave is entered at ground level, and the pews leave a central aisle leading to the altar and the curved east wall. The Hardenberg mausoleum, built as a temple front, adjoins the east wall and is seen from outside.

Preserved within the back wall of the church mensa is the heart of Chancellor Karl August von Hardenberg, who died in Genoa in 1822. This unusual resting place connects the building to an important Prussian statesman.