Anti-war house in Sievershausen

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Anti-war house
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The Anti- War House in Sievershausen is supported by the non-profit organization Documentation Center for War Events and through Peace Work eV . Founded in 1979, the association has set itself the task of “encouraging peace work for Christian and humanitarian motives, carrying out and promoting peace work itself” and “advocating international understanding and peaceful coexistence” (statute). The association operates a seminar and overnight accommodation with the anti-war workshop and an event center with the anti-war building on the grounds of the Sievershausen / Lehrte parish .

history

From 1967 onwards, events of the peace movement called anti-war workshops took place in the Protestant parish of Sievershausen on the initiative of pastor Klaus Rauterberg . The occasion to institutionalize the work was a larger commemorative event at the memorial stone for Elector Moritz on July 9, 1978, which was experienced by many people as cynical due to the speeches. As a result, in the late autumn of 1978, the initiative to set up a documentation center was formed. On September 1, 1979, the foundation stone was laid for today's building, which had been given to the association and which young people demolished elsewhere and rebuilt at the current location, where the bloodiest battle on Lower Saxony soil took place in 1553 . In front of the anti-war house, a history field has been created on the former battlefield. The DankMal was erected here in 1989 in memory of those who helped those who were persecuted during the Nazi era. This also includes the DankMal archive with literature and documents from that time. After the fall of the inner-German border, the MauerMahnMal was added in 1991, consisting of three parts of the Berlin Wall, which reminds of the non-violent overcoming of an inhuman border. The third element of the historical field is the deserter's memorial , which since 1997 has honored all those people who opposed and withdrew from state-ordered murders or who do so today.

Fields of work

  • Peace education youth work in cooperation with schools and parishes
  • Event center with public lectures, panel discussions, exhibitions
  • Memory work and awareness of history
  • Impulse generator within the Ev.-luth. Regional Church of Hanover
  • Participation in networks of the peace movement
  • Award of the Peace Prize "Sievershausen Encouragement"
  • International work camp in Sievershausen

Sievershauser encouragement

The Anti-War House Peace Prize - the Sievershausen Encouragement - has been awarded every two years for exemplary peace and human rights work for over 20 years. The prize is endowed with 5000 euros. The award ceremony takes place on December 10th on Human Rights Day.

Foundation "Peace is a human right"

In 2014 the church foundation “Peace is a human right” started its work. In the long term, it should help to secure and intensify the peace work of the anti-war building in Sievershausen and to enable special projects within the peace work.

literature

  • Heinrich Grosse, Hans Otte, Joachim Perels: Church in turbulent times . Lutheran Publishing House, Hanover 2011, ISBN 978-3-78-5910368 .

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Coordinates: 52 ° 22 '28.69 "  N , 10 ° 7' 48.63"  O