German Evangelical Church Congress

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The Jerusalem cross is the logo of the DEKT.
The poster for the Kirchentag 2009
The poster for the Kirchentag 2007
Kirchentag in the "heart" of the host city (here: evening of the meeting in 2009 on the Bremen market square )

The German Evangelical Church Congress (DEKT) is a movement of Protestant lay people that holds the eponymous multi-day major event every two years.

The German Evangelical Church Congress sees itself as a free movement of people who bring together the Christian faith and commitment to the future of the Church and the world. It is institutionally independent of the Protestant churches.

The 2017 Kirchentag took place from May 24th to 28th in Berlin and Lutherstadt Wittenberg . The Kirchentag 2019 took place from June 19 to 23, 2019 in Dortmund .

In addition to Christianity, topics are many political and social issues of our time, such as B. the dialogue between Jews and Christians since 1961 in Berlin or the Evangelical-Catholic conversation in Cologne in 1965. The peace movement of the 1980s was strongly influenced by the Kirchentag. The first major peace demonstrations took place on the occasion of the German Evangelical Church Congress in June 1981 in Hamburg and 1983 in Hanover (motto: "Return to life").

The smaller (and older) Roman Catholic counterpart to the Kirchentag is the Katholikentag . The first ecumenical church convention took place in Berlin in 2003 . The host city of the second Ecumenical Church Congress in May 2010 was the city of Munich . The ecumenical church days are organized together with the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZDK).

program

From the beginnings of the Evangelical Kirchentag, a scheme has developed over the years that serves as a framework for the Kirchentag. Church days usually take place on the days around Ascension Day or Corpus Christi (=> bridging day ); they usually start on the Wednesday before the relevant public holiday and last until Sunday. The framework program of a church convention usually follows a grid that is adapted to local conditions. These include in detail:

Opening service

The Kirchentag begins with several opening services on Wednesday evening. In the past, these were up to 70 services in the region, which the Kirchentag calls the quarter area, as this is the region where the permanent participants have their overnight accommodation. Since the Kirchentag 2005 there have been few church services in central locations of the city, e.g. B. large spaces to keep the journey to the following evening of the meeting short.

Evening of encounter

Evening of encounter 2005

Church groups, initiatives and works from the host regional church organize the central opening event, the street festival Evening of Encounter , following the opening services in the city center of the venue. The different regions of the regional church present themselves with diverse (regional) culinary delicacies; In addition, a broad stage program is offered. Laypeople and professionals take turns entertaining the guests on numerous stages across the city center. The evening of the encounter is one of the largest street festivals in Germany with around 300,000 visitors in recent years .

The evening of the encounter is traditionally alcohol-free, thrives on the encounter element “hands-on activities” and increasingly has an “eco- fair ” focus (produced according to the criteria of organic farming and fair trade ); Food and drinks preferably come from the region and are sold with environmentally friendly reusable tableware. Its spiritual conclusion with an evening blessing, a sea ​​of ​​lights and an experimental sound installation is also typical . B. composed well-known artists like Markus Stockhausen or Sven Helbig .

Schedule from Thursday to Saturday

The three full days of the Kirchentag run roughly according to the same scheme, apart from the after-work meal on Friday evening. The main points are:

Bible study

The day of the event begins every morning with Bible studies . These take place in different settings (from an exhibition hall with several thousand visitors to small groups of ten people). They are led by lay people, such as artists or politicians, or by theologians. Some Bible studies by personalities from abroad are also held in English. All Bible studies of the day are based on the same Bible text.

Market of Opportunities

At the “Market of Opportunities”, which is open until the early evening, many (also non-church) initiatives are presented in the exhibition halls of the host city. There will be stands on topics such as fair trade , climate protection or homosexuality in the church, but also orthodoxy in Egypt, Braille or special projects by individual parishes. The thematic arrangement of the stands means that z. B. the military chaplaincy is only a few steps away from Christian peace groups.

Lectures and discussion events

In the morning and afternoon, the thematic priorities of the Kirchentag will be deepened through lectures and panel discussions. Numerous celebrities from politics, church and society also take part, including members of the federal government as well as well-known actors, musicians and television presenters. The number of listeners varies from several dozen to more than 10,000, depending on the topic and the cast of the podium.

Evening events

In the evenings there are more cultural or religious events for different target groups. For example, there are concerts by well-known pop musicians; at the Kirchentag in Dresden, among others, Nina Hagen , the Wise Guys , Laith Al-Deen and Andreas Bourani performed . However, there are also concerts by musicians who are more likely to be assigned to the Christian music scene, such as Gerhard Schöne , Clemens Bittlinger or Judy Bailey , as well as performances and premieres of old and new church music, musicals and theater pieces or thematic evenings with musical, acting and worship services Elements. An opera was commissioned for the first time for the Kirchentag in Hamburg .

Good night cafes

In some meetinghouses, youth centers and group quarters, you can end the day in a bedtime café. People meet there for drinks and snacks.

After-work meal

On Friday evening, parishes from the host city invite you to differently designed church services in their rooms. These are usually followed by a cozy get-together, which tries to bring the parishes of the city and the guests of the Kirchentag into conversation. At the same time various events of the Kirchentag take place; only a small part of the church convention attendees take advantage of the parishes' offers.

Closing service

The Kirchentag ends on Sunday with a central final meeting with a closing service, in which the Lord's Supper has also been celebrated since 1983 . Today it usually takes place on a large square with over 100,000 participants.

Thematic focus

The thematic focal points are reconsidered for each Kirchentag. The formulations are kept quite general, because they are intended to encompass and structure the entire range of current church discussion topics. Often they are very similar: questions of faith, individual lifestyle, ethics and social politics should find their place. Working methods are mainly lectures and panel discussions.

Picture from an event at the Kirchentag 2005

Cultural Opportunities

A cultural program is always part of the Kirchentag. These include numerous performances by theater and cabaret groups and concerts of all kinds of music. In recent years, visual artists have also increasingly been asked to collaborate.

Sports center

At the 2019 Kirchentag in Dortmund, the topic of sports was expanded into a large sports center with the help of Eichenkreuz-Sports and the YMCA. In addition to lectures and discussions on Christian values ​​in sport, visitors were able to take part in a wide range of sporting activities.

Spiritual offers

From the early morning hours until around midnight, church services are celebrated again and again, and prayer hours and meditations are offered at various locations. There is also the possibility of pastoral care throughout the day.

Resolutions

During the Kirchentag, resolutions can be passed and adopted as resolutions by the visitors involved in their formation by passing resolutions or signing them. For resolutions to come about, there are certain minimum requirements, and if these are met, the resolution will be made available to the media by the Kirchentag and sent to the addressees named in the resolution.

organization

Legal entity

The legal entity of the German Evangelical Church Congress is the “Association for the Promotion of the German Evangelical Church Congress e. V. “based in Fulda . The choice fell on Fulda because the Presidium was looking for a place that "was able to guarantee the independence and autonomy of the Kirchentag and was in the middle of the remaining Germany - east and west together". The Kirchentag maintains a central office there as a permanent institution. Julia Helmke has been the General Secretary of the Kirchentag since 2017 .

At the head of the association is the president for a term of two years. The leadership of the Kirchentag is incumbent on the Presidium, the Executive Committee of the Presidium, the Presidential Assembly, the Conference of the State Committees and the College. There are no institutional representatives in any of the bodies of the Kirchentag. There are only personal members. A large number of the members of the Presidium are appointed by it. This means that the board of the Kirchentag actually elects itself. Participation in the composition of the governing bodies by the visitors, the volunteers or, for example, parishes or individuals interested in the Kirchentag is not possible or only possible for a small number of the members of the Presidential Assembly.

In order to organize the respective church convention, the name “XX. German Evangelical Church Congress V. ”founded its own sponsoring association, which then sets up an office in the city where the church convention is held.

The host regional church establishes the position of a representative who takes over the coordination between the church convention and the inviting regional church and its institutions and communities. In addition, employees of the regional church and the respective city administration work in the Kirchentags office and take care of regionally important projects there. In some actions, the legal entity is the regional church directly. Entry is free there. So in 2019 at the Zentrum Sport in Dortmund on the parking lot of the Westfalenhalle.

Lay organization

Many of the organization's tasks are carried out by volunteers, including many Christian and non-denominational scouts . In total there are around 4,000 helpers at a church convention. About 10 percent of the helpers, also known as “hard core (HaKa)”, are on site between nine days and three weeks. The “contributors” in the program and in the market of opportunities do not receive any money for their appearances and stands, but rather discounted tickets. An exception are “draft horses” invited by the Kirchentag (e.g. well-known pop groups).

Medical service protection

Medical care during a church convention is traditionally secured by the Johanniter . Medical service, mobility service for people with disabilities and also child care are some of the tasks that are carried out by volunteers from all over Germany.

Kirchentag and environmental protection

The Kirchentag attaches great importance to the environmentally friendly implementation of the event. He creates an ecological balance . For the journey, great importance is attached to the use of the railroad or the formation of car-sharing opportunities. The participating groups, for example in the market of possibilities, are guided by a market organization to promote environmentally friendly behavior such as B. Committed to reducing waste and saving energy. The amount of energy consumed by the Kirchentag is offset by investments in environmentally friendly energy generation. Since 2007, the Kirchentag has been the first major German series event to be certified according to the Eco Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS). Since 2013, more attention has been paid to the effects on the climate in the catering sector. As part of the “KleVer - Climate Efficient Catering” project, the Kirchentag is working on a concept for climate-friendly and sustainable catering for all parties involved.

Sponsorship and funding

In 2007 the Kirchentag in Cologne cost around 14 million euros. Around 5 million euros came from the public sector (City of Cologne, State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Federal Republic of Germany). The then host Evangelical Church in the Rhineland also provided a good 5 million euros . Sponsors and tickets are further pillars of funding.

For the 2011 Kirchentag in Dresden, the Free State of Saxony pledged 5.5 million euros and the state capital Dresden 2.0 million euros.

The Kirchentag is sponsored by various companies and organizations. In 2007 these included Volkswagen AG, the Axel Springer Foundation, Deichmann, E-Plus Mobilfunk and Bread for the World .

The 2017 Kirchentag was budgeted for 23 million euros, half of which was financed from public grants. The rest came from sponsors (including Volkswagen and Bosch) and entrance fees. The share of the Protestant churches was three million euros.

criticism

In 2017, the selection of sponsors was discussed controversially within the regional churches, the Kirchentag leadership and also in the media. In particular, the cooperation with Volkswagen and Bosch was occasionally criticized as " indulgence trade ", while a spokeswoman for Volkswagen described this as "dealing with the diesel crisis".

history

In the history of the German church there were associations and meetings under the name Deutscher Evangelischer Kirchentag even before 1949 ; they have no direct connection with today's DEKT. For this see German Evangelical Church Congress (explanation of terms) .

In 1848 a meeting of "Protestant men" took place in Wittenberg, which was called the Church Congress. Up to 1872, 15 such church days were held (" German Evangelical Church Day ").

After the First World War a second Kirchentag movement emerged. A Kirchentag took place in Dresden in 1919, at which the individual regional churches in particular came together with the aim of founding a church federation , a forerunner of today's EKD.

Kirchentag 1999 Stuttgart with Salzberg:
"You are the salt of the earth."
Ὕμεῖς ἐστε τὸ ἅλας τῆς γῆς ·

The now known DEKT was founded in 1949 after the time of National Socialism and the Second World War , mainly by Reinold von Thadden-Trieglaff and friends and had its roots in a mixture of pietism and the connection to global ecumenism . It had been preceded by smaller regional church conventions as early as 1932. First there was a Pomeranian church convention in Stettin in 1932, which von Thadden helped to organize, and at which 20,000 people came together. In the following years these church days were mainly used by the Confessing Church to equip the community. In 1935 the first " Evangelical Week " took place in Hanover , organized by churches that saw themselves in opposition to the church that had been brought into line. After the Second World War, the first "Evangelical Weeks" took place in Flensburg in 1947 and in Frankfurt am Main in 1948.

In 1949, at the invitation of Regional Bishop Hanns Lilje, another “Evangelical Week” took place in Hanover, this time across Germany, which is now regarded as the first church convention. The President of the EKD Synod and later Federal President Gustav Heinemann read here the founding declaration of a German Evangelical Church Congress to be held regularly from now on, the

“Should serve to equip the Protestant laity for their service in the world and in the Christian community and promote fellowship and exchange with the laity of the churches united in the World Council of Churches. Initially, these meetings took place annually until a biennial rhythm was introduced in the mid-1950s. "

Evangelical Church Congress 1961

The 1951 Kirchentag in Berlin as a whole was of great importance and was also supported by the East Berlin authorities. For example, the FDJ camp ("butterfly nest") was made available to accommodate the young guests of the church. The 1953 Kirchentag in Hamburg took place shortly after the change of course and the popular uprising in the GDR. Special trains were used to Hamburg from the major cities of the GDR.

The participants originally came from both parts of Germany: The Kirchentag was still held in Leipzig in 1954, and 19,700 of the 42,900 permanent participants came from the GDR to the Kirchentag, which was held in West Berlin in 1961, shortly before the Wall was built. After the Wall was built in 1961, holding a joint German church convention became increasingly difficult. Therefore, separate church days were held in the GDR .

Richard von Weizsäcker (left) and Ludwig Erhard at the Evangelical Church Congress in Cologne, 1965

At the end of the 1960s, the Kirchentag required a fundamental revision. The church days of the 1950s and 1960s primarily served to reaffirm the specifically Protestant faith in an increasingly secular Germany. Topics such as ecumenism or peace policy only appeared marginally, as did new spiritual impulses. Nevertheless, even in its form at that time, the Kirchentag was already too liberal for the conservative wing of Protestantism. These founded an alternative event with the community day under the word .

The 1969 Kirchentag in Stuttgart was shaped on the one hand by this contrast and on the other hand by the influence of the Protestant student congregations, which addressed the then current issues of APO and the Vietnam War . There was no Kirchentag in 1971 as a pause for reflection. Instead, there was an ecumenical Pentecost meeting and various regional church days.

The 1973 Kirchentag in Düsseldorf was the Kirchentag with the lowest number of permanent participants to date, but this was the first time that a Kirchentag took place here with the framework that is still used today. New, for example, was the celebration of a “liturgical night”, which had a major impact on the youth services of the following decade.

New hymns and new ecclesiastical songs are often spread beyond the Kirchentag. Furthermore, discussions about peace and ecology started at church conventions.

Heinz Rudolf Kunze composed an official Kirchentag pop song for the first time for the Kirchentag in Hanover in 2005. Since then, the Wise Guys (2007 in Cologne and 2009 in Bremen) and the cabaret artist Bodo Wartke (2011 in Dresden) have composed password songs on behalf of the Kirchentag. In 2013 in Hamburg, composer Dieter Falk and singer Mic Donet were responsible for the Kirchentag song.

In order to advance the ecumenical movement, the Central Committee of German Catholics and the German Evangelical Church Congress launched the Ecumenical Church Congress . The first Ecumenical Church Congress took place in 2003 in Berlin, the second Ecumenical Church Congress took place from May 12 to 16, 2010 in Munich .

Planned church days

Reinoldikirche in Dortmund

Postage stamps

See also

literature

About history

  • Carola Wolf: Twenty years of the Kirchentag. Kreuz, Stuttgart 1969.
  • Carola Wolf, Hans Hermann Walz: hear, act, hope. 30 years of the German Evangelical Church Congress. Kreuz, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-7831-0573-0 .
  • Lutz von Padberg , Burghard Affeld: Controversial Church Congress. Reports, analyzes and comments on the German Evangelical Church Congress from 1949 to 1985. Publishing and writing mission of the Evangelical Society for Germany, Wuppertal 1985, ISBN 3-87857-195-X . (= Gospel and Society, 4)
  • Rüdiger Runge, Christian Krause (ed.): Zeitansage. 40 years of the German Evangelical Church Congress. Kreuz, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-7831-0966-3 .
  • Otto Schröder , Hans-Detlef Peter (Ed.): Dare to trust. Evangelical Church Congress in the GDR. Self-published, Berlin 1993.
  • Rüdiger Runge, Margot Käßmann : Church on the move. 50 years of the German Evangelical Church Congress. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2001, ISBN 3-579-02099-4 .
  • Rüdiger Runge, Ellen Ueberschär (Ed.): Festival of faith. Forum of the world. 60 years of the German Evangelical Church Congress. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2009, ISBN 978-3-579-08202-8 .
  • Ellen Ueberschär (ed.): German Evangelical Church Congress. Roots and Beginnings , Gütersloh 2017, ISBN 978-3-641-17692-1 .

Analyzes

  • Christiane Renner: "So that we can get smart" - Potentials of the community education processes at the German Evangelical Church Congress, in: Pastoraltheologie 107 (2018), pp. 130-137.
  • Ansgar Gilster: "The I in the We". The Kirchentag and the shared certainty of one's own existence. In: Richard Janus / Florian Fuchs / Harald Schroeter-Wittke (eds.): Masses and masks. Cultural and theological approaches. SV Springer, Wiesbaden 2017, pp. 79–96.
  • Gert Pickel, Yvonne Jaeckel, Alexander Yendell: The German Evangelical Church Congress - Religious confession, political event or just an event? An empirical study on attending church conventions in Dresden and Hamburg. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 2015, ISBN 978-3-8487-2276-1 .
  • Teresa Schall: Communication of Protestantism. Effects and repercussions of radio commentaries on the Kirchentag 1969 on the media image of Protestantism. In: Christian Albrecht, Reiner Anselm (Ed.): Participating contemporaries. Studies on Protestantism in the ethical debates of the Federal Republic of Germany 1949–1989. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2015, pp. 235–264. (= Religion in the Federal Republic of Germany; 1.)
  • Sebastian Tripp: Religious and political. Christian Anti-Apartheid Groups and the Transformation of West German Protestantism 1970–1990. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8353-1628-7 . (= History of religion in modern times: 6.)
  • Benjamin Pearson: A Divided Nation in a Divided World. The Kirchentag and the Globalization of German Protestantism from the 1950s to the 1970s. In: Katharina Kunter, Annegreth Schilling (ed.): Globalization of the churches. The World Council of Churches and the Discovery of the Third World in the 1960s and 1970s. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2014, pp. 257–276. (= Work on contemporary church history, 58.)
  • Harald Schroeter-Wittke: Church days and their forms of worship. In: Albert Gerhards, Matthias Schneider (ed.): The service and its music. Volume 2: Liturgy: Forms of worship and their agents. Laaber Verlag, Laaber 2014, pp. 217–225. (= Encyclopedia of Church Music; 4/2.)
  • Thomas Mittmann: Church in Performative Change. The development of the Catholic Days and the Evangelical Church Days in the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Frank Bösch, Lucian Hölscher (ed.): Beyond the Church. The opening of religious spaces since the 1950s. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2013, pp. 107–148.
  • Harald Schroeter-Wittke : Evangelical Church and Event Culture. Observations on a pop-cultural form of community based on the German Evangelical Church Days since 1949. In: Yearbook for Evangelical Church History of the Rhineland, 62 (2013), pp. 221–240.
  • Harald Schroeter-Wittke: Church as a mass. On the relationship between the German Evangelical Church Congress and public space, presented with special consideration of the Church Congress in the Ruhr area. In: Church in the Revier. Announcements from the Association for Research into the Church and Religious History of the Ruhr Area e. V. 26 (2013), pp. 9-16.
  • Harald Schroeter-Wittke: Church days, festivals, conventions. Religious Happenings as Places for the Formation of Faith (Kirchentags, Festivals, Conventions. Religious Happenings as Places for the Formation of Faith). In: Martin Friedrich, Hans Jürgen Luibl (Hrsg.): Belief formation. The transmission of faith in European Protestantism (Formation of Faith. Handing down Faith in European Protestantism). Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig, 2012, pp. 416–436.
  • Harald Schroeter-Wittke: Transmission and Eventual Church. Observations on Church, Catholic and World Youth Days between religion and society. In: Zeitschrift für Theologie und Gemeinde, 17 (2012), pp. 84-103.
  • Thomas Mittmann: “Christian identity” in the institutional church. The "eventization" of church formats in the Federal Republic of the sixties and seventies. In: Wilhelm Damberg (Ed.): Social structures and semantics of the religious in transition. Transformations in the Federal Republic of Germany 1949–1989. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2011, pp. 155–169.
  • Benjamin Pearson: The Pluralization of Protestant Politics: Public Responsibility, Rearmament, and Division at the 1950s Kirchentage. In: Central European History, 43 (2010), pp. 270-300.
  • Peter Bubmann: The Kirchentag as an educational offer. In: Gottfried Adam , Rainer Lachmann (Hrsg.): New community pedagogical compendium. Göttingen 2008, pp. 413-424.
  • Benjamin Carl Pearson: Faith and Democracy: Political Transformations at the German Protestant Kirchentag, 1949–1969. Diss. Phil. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2007.
  • Harald Schroeter-Wittke: The German Evangelical Church Congress in the 1960s and 70s - a social movement? In: Siegfried Hermle, Claudia Lepp, Harry Oelke (eds.): Umbruch. German Protestantism and the social movements in the 1960s and 70s. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2007, pp. 213–225. (= Work on contemporary church history, 47.)
  • Andreas Klawikowski: If your child asks you tomorrow - impulses, experiences and stories about the Kirchentag. Biblioviel, Bochum 2005, ISBN 3-928781-57-X .
  • Dirk Palm: "We are brothers!" The Evangelical Church Congress and the German Question 1949–1961. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-525-55736-1 .
  • Gabriele Kammerer: In your hair, in your arms. 40 years of the “Jews and Christians” working group at the German Evangelical Church Congress. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2001, ISBN 3-579-05322-1 .
  • Hanna Zapp: Rituals and systems for large groups in the church tradition. In: Roswita Königswieser / Marion Keil (ed.): The fire of large groups. Concepts, designs, practical examples for large events. Schäffer-Poeschel, Stuttgart 2000, pp. 100-113.
  • Peter Bubmann: Pentecost pilgrimage and confirmation ritual. The Kirchentag as a time announcement in the adventure society. In: Wolfgang Ratzman (Ed.): The Kirchentag and its liturgies. In search of tomorrow's church service. Leipzig 1999, pp. 33-55. (= Contributions to liturgy and spirituality, 4.)
  • Harald Schroeter: Kirchentag as a provisional church. The Kirchentag as a special form of Christianity between church and world. W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-17-012556-7 . (= Practical theology today, 13th)
  • Erika Godel: Counter-speeches. Bible studies by women at the German Evangelical Church Congress. Mosaic stones on the hidden church history of women. At the same time dissertation at the University of Hamburg, 1992. Kaiser, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-459-01959-X .
  • Andreas Feige, Ingrid Lukatis: The Religio-Political Functions of the Present-Day "Kirchentags" in West Germany in the Context of Post-modern Societies. In: Journal of Empirical Theology, 2 (1989), pp. 44-58.
  • Frans Haarsma: The Theological Place of the Kirchentag between Local Congregation and Denomination. In: Journal of Empirical Theology, 2 (1989), pp. 59-68.
  • Andreas Feige, Ingrid Lukatis, Wolfgang Lukatis: Kirchentag between church and world. Looking for answers. An empirical study at the 21st German Evangelical Church Congress in Düsseldorf 1985. Wichern-Verlag, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-88981-029-2 .
  • Tilman Schmieder, Klaus Schuhmacher (ed.): Youth on the Kirchentag. An empirical analysis by Andreas Feige, Ingrid Lukatis and Wolfgang Lukatis. Edition aej, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-7831-0773-3 . (Kreuz-Verlag, ISBN 3-88862-015-5 .)

Web links

Commons : Deutscher Evangelischer Kirchentag  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Catholic Day - Committees. (No longer available online.) Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK), archived from the original on February 6, 2015 ; Retrieved June 9, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.katholikentag.de
  2. ↑ Catholic Day - accommodation. (No longer available online.) Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK), archived from the original on April 27, 2015 ; Retrieved June 9, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.katholikentag.de
  3. ↑ Ecumenical Kirchentag 2003. (No longer available online.) Evangelical Church in Germany, archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; Retrieved June 9, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ekd.de
  4. ↑ 2nd Ecumenical Church Congress. 2nd Ecumenical Kirchentag Munich 2010 e. V., accessed on June 9, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Oak Cross
  6. ↑ YMCA
  7. ↑ Quoted from Brigitte Busold: Wittenberg - Fulda there and back. German Evangelical Church Congress and 500 years of the Reformation . In: Susanne Bohl and others (ed.): Fulda. 50 treasures and specialties . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-7319-0425-0 , pp. 70–73, here p. 70.
  8. ↑ Sports
  9. ↑ Oak Cross
  10. ↑ See: Deutscher Evangelischer Kirchentag, 2005 program, p. 576 f.
  11. ↑ See e.g. B. Market organization “Market of Opportunities”, German Evangelical Church Congress Hanover 2005.
  12. ↑ KleVer - Climate-efficient catering. German Evangelical Church Congress, accessed on November 26, 2015 .
  13. ↑ 3,000 events, 80,000 scarves, 55,000 cardboard stools. Evangelical Press Service , June 6, 2007, archived from the original on June 1 ; Retrieved November 26, 2015 .
  14. ↑ German Evangelical Church Congress: Whoever Supports and Helps Us ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kirchentag.net
  15. ↑ a b Andre Seifert: VW and Bosch exhaust gas sinners sponsor the church convention. (No longer available online.) MDR.de, archived from the original on May 30, 2017 ; Retrieved May 29, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mdr.de
  16. ↑ Grants, sponsors, admissions - why Berlin puts so much money into the Kirchentag. rbb.de, May 24, 2017, accessed on May 29, 2017 .
  17. ↑ Despite protests: Volkswagen sponsors the Kirchentag. FAZ.de, accessed on May 29, 2017 .
  18. ↑ http://www.geschichte-bk-sh.de/index.php?id=384
  19. ↑ https://www.hdg.de/lemo/kapitel/nachkriegsjahre/neuanfaenge/kirchen.html
  20. ↑ Rock poet Heinz Rudolf Kunze introduces a Kirchentag song. Evangelical Church in Germany , January 14, 2005, accessed on November 26, 2015 .
  21. ^ Notice from DEKT from November 2016. Accessed on November 20, 2016 .
  22. ↑ Kirchentag 2023 in Nuremberg. September 22, 2018. Retrieved September 22, 2018 .
  23. ↑ Joy about the plans to invite the Kirchentag to Baden. April 26, 2015, accessed July 3, 2020 .
  24. ↑ Tweet from @kirchentag_de. June 29, 2020, accessed July 3, 2020 .
  25. ↑ Funding of the German Evangelical Church Congress 2025 through a grant from the state. June 29, 2020, accessed July 3, 2020 .