One world church
The One World Church is a church in the south-eastern part of Schneverdingen . It was built in wood in 1999 as part of a decentralized Expo 2000 project . Within the One World Church, the One Earth Altar is the main attraction. Numerous soil and sand samples from all over the world contributed by donors are collected in it in so-called books . All books are numbered and listed in a list (also available on the Internet) so that the collection location of the soil or sand sample can be stated for each book.
The One World Church is home to the Evangelical Lutheran Markus parish of Schneverdingen in the Hanoverian Sprengel Stade .
Church building
- Idea: Pastor Paul Dalby
- Planning: Lothar Tabery architects, Bremervörde
- Board stacking technology: Julius Natterer , Lausanne (Switzerland)
- Conception of the one-earth altar: Marianne Greve, Hamburg
Wood was primarily used as the building material for the church . The supporting beams are made of spruce wood with steel bracing. The walls and roof are made of oak on the outside and pine on the inside. There is thermal insulation and a moisture barrier between the outer and inner walls. The walls are built using a board stack construction. Pine trunks form the gray-looking spire. The boards and planks cut from tree trunks were put together to form wall elements, placed vertically in the wooden frame with a crane and connected to form a closed wall. This construction principle is shown schematically on one of the four window pictures, which are to the side of the entrance to the church. The wood comes from necessary thinning in local forests. The pine from the Sellhorn forestry office ( Heidekreis district ), the oak from the Harsefeld forestry office ( Stade district ). Around 600 cubic meters of wood were processed in sawmills and carpentry businesses in the region. The wood of the walls is untreated.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 6 ′ 35 " N , 9 ° 48 ′ 34" E