Christian Jensen College
The Christian Jensen College is an ecumenical conference and meeting center for church and society in the North Frisian community of Breklum . The educational institution was founded in 2005 and is organized in the legal form of a non-profit GmbH .
history
Christian Jensen and the Breklumer Mission
The theologian Christian Jensen , born in Fahretoft , North Frisia , was appointed senior pastor of the Breklum parish in 1873. In 1876 he bought the farmhouse, which today is part of the Christian Jensen College as a so-called mission house . Here he set up the Breklum Mission , which had the task of training evangelical theological missionaries and then sending them out into the world.
In the following years this facility was supplemented by more. So a printing house for literature of Christian journalism was created, with the so-called Martineum an evangelical high school and the sanatorium . The first missionaries were sent out into the world as early as 1881. The earliest mission stations were in the Asian culture (initially India, shortly afterwards also China). Due to the high number of North Frisian emigrants overseas in the 19th century, the Breklum Preachers' Seminar for America soon sent over 200 pastors to the German immigrant communities in the United States and Canada. Later the geographic focus of the missionary work shifted to Africa (including Tanzania, Kenya and Congo) and Central America. In this way, the small village of Breklum in the Duchy of Schleswig (later the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein) quickly became a world-famous place through its missionary work. The Breklum missionary work, which always followed a model of social responsibility, also resulted in many social institutions such as schools, hospitals and orphanages in the target countries. The model followed, among other things, the religious renewal movement of these years.
20th century
During the German National Socialist era, Breklum was an important place of resistance by the Confessing Church . After the end of the Third Reich, the place remained a center of church educational work. The establishment of a preacher's and catechistic seminary was evidence of this. From 1945 to 1970 there was also a seminar for community workers.
The rededication of the facility to the North Elbe Center for World Mission and Church World Service in 1970 was followed a year later by the relocation of the mission administration to Hamburg-Othmarschen. Since then, the outside contacts have been taken over by the Hamburg facility. To this day, however, Breklum is the seat of the so-called Center for Mission and Ecumenism - Northern Church worldwide, which was renamed in the course of the founding of the Northern Church .
Christian Jensen College
In the new millennium, the church and municipal sponsors finally decided to found the Christian Jensen College named after the founder of the missionary institution . It was agreed that the existing real estate could be used in the best possible way with the establishment of an education center. The inauguration of the facility took place on September 30, 2005. Since then, the rooms have been used as a conference venue by various groups of both ecclesiastical and secular nature in northern Schleswig-Holstein.
A fire destroyed the mission house in 2009; numerous archive documents were destroyed. The house was rebuilt by 2010.
building
The Christian-Jensen-Kolleg is located in the contiguous settlement area of the village of Breklum on both sides of Kirchenstrasse. The embankment of the Marschbahn runs to the west of the site .
Seminar events usually take place in the so-called mission house. There are administrative offices on the upper floors. The ballroom, which can be used for larger events and lectures, is located in the neighboring building to the south. It is arranged in such a way that it can be divided into three individual lecture halls, even for medium-sized groups. The youth hostel is located in the rear of the building . A small chapel is housed in the side wing of the mission house. In an extension with an additional separate entrance from the outside area there is a bookstore, the Breklumer Bücherstube with the local post office as a branch of the Deutsche Post .
On the opposite part of the property, separated by Kirchenstrasse, there are three guest houses and with the Martineum the central building of the facility. This is where the reception, a dining room (cafeteria) and the auditorium are located. Are there any additional cafés? Sí! Bar and a fireplace room available. The upper floors contain further seminar rooms. The dining room has access to the outside terrace. Another guest house has now been set up in a building west of the embankment. The guest houses are named after the continents in which the missionaries worked (East Asia, India, Africa, Latin America).
The paths on the main site are accompanied by granite steles.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Inke Raabe: "The damage runs into the millions." Sylter Rundschau from December 9, 2009, accessed on August 9, 2018
- ^ Website of the CJK , accessed on August 9, 2018
Coordinates: 54 ° 36 ′ 25.3 ″ N , 8 ° 59 ′ 7.1 ″ E