St. Joseph, Catholic church in Stadthagen, Germany.

St. Joseph is a red-brick Catholic church on Bahnhofstraße, a few hundred metres west of Stadthagen's old town. Its stepped body has a lower front section and a taller rear section, with a square tower and pointed spire rising on the right. Tall narrow windows with light mullions sit on the facade, and the 40-metre tower, known locally as "the long Joseph", carries two round clock faces.

St. Joseph was built from 1886 in the Gothic Revival style and consecrated in 1887 by Bernhard Höting, Bishop of Osnabrück, to whose diocese Stadthagen then belonged. The parish was raised to full status in 1911. In 1953–54 the original polygonal choir was replaced by a transept and a new sanctuary to accommodate Catholics who arrived as expellees after 1945. The parish passed from Osnabrück to the Diocese of Hildesheim in 1965.

The parish grew from a mission station founded in 1877 and was raised to a parish in 1911. Since October 1996 the parish hall has housed the Schaumburger Initiative gegen Arbeitslosigkeit (S.I.G.A.), founded on an ecumenical basis after the German bishops' social statement, which became a non-profit association and later a cooperative running projects against long-term unemployment across the district.

St. Joseph stands on Bahnhofstraße, a few hundred metres west of Stadthagen's old town, next to the historic "Vor dem Westerntor" cemetery. The entrance lies at the base of the 40-metre tower, the "long Joseph". Look for the two clock faces on the tower; the quarter-hour is struck by the small Bonifatius bell of 1959.

The tower is nicknamed "der lange Joseph" (the tall Joseph) for its 40-metre height. Inside, the oldest bell, "Bonifatius", cast in Bremen in 1886, still hangs; its Latin inscription asks the saint to pray for the congregation. The bell "Peter" was cast in 1510 and came from a Hamburg bell store in 1952.