Gerechtigkeitsspirale (German: "spiral of justice") is a relief carving of a poem at the pilgrimage church of St. Valentin in Kiedrich, in Hesse, Germany.
The text is carved in the form of a spiral on the front of one of the pews for the congregation, creating possibly the earliest known shape poem in the German language.
The tendrils are stylized and include a caricature in the form of a human face in profile, just above and to the right of the last letter of the word "verlorn" (lost).
[2][6] The content of the text recalls the struggle of the virtues and vices described by the early Christian poet Prudentius in his work Psychomachia.
[7] The first lines of the text are used as the epigraph of the 2013 crime fiction book Tod im Klostergarten (Death in the Abbey Garden) by Roland Stark.