Church boat

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A church boat , also: nave (not to be confused with the lengthways space of churches ), is a place of worship on the water, which is primarily used for the pastoral care of the people who live and work on the inland ships. These can usually not be based on the fixed dates of a local church. The offers of inland waterway chaplaincy take into account the special working conditions in inland waterway transport . There are six church boats across Germany.

River boat church Hamburg

Church boat St. Nikolaus of the diocese of Essen

In November 1964, Bishop Franz Hengsbach consecrated the church boat of the diocese of Essen . It is a Catholic church on the water in the Rhine at Duisburg harbor , the largest inland port in Europe. The name of the church boat is the patron saint of the driving people: St. Nicholas .

The boat has a church room for 32 people. It is 15.3 m long, 4.3 m wide and has a 1.27 m draft. A 169 HP diesel engine propels the ship at a speed of twelve knots (approx. 22 km / h).

At the time of the consecration, the bishop called the boat “a sign of the tireless care of the church, even for the people on the river who hardly have time to attend a service and only see the church from afar”. For more than 30 years, the Catholic skipper pastor Werner Paquet (1942–2016) drove through the port as captain and pastor on the St. Nikolaus.

St. Nikolaus appears in the TV series MS Franziska , in which she is used by the harbor pastor Blacky.

Evangelical church boat Johann Hinrich Wichern in Duisburg

There is also another church boat here, that of the Protestant church. It is named after the theologian of the same name . The Catholic and Protestant inland shipping chaplains work with their own ship. The employees of the Protestant inland shipping service travel with the Johann Hinrich Wichern through the port several days a week. With its small church service room, the boat offers u. a. also the possibility of ship weddings and baptisms. The boat entered service on April 13, 1980.

Evangelical Schiffergemeinde Berlin-Brandenburg

One of six church boats in Germany sails in Berlin . On 14 April 1999, was maiden voyage of Wichernhaus Arche Nova . The ship is 7.5 m long and has a 208 hp engine. The costs were financed through donations. The ship is on the Havel , Spree and Dahme .

Nave Rose des Wörthersee

On the occasion of the Reformation anniversary in 2017 , a floating sanctuary was consecrated with the Rose des Wörthersee , which is to be used in the communities around the Wörthersee . The boat, which was built by students from Klagenfurt HTL1 , is sponsored by the superintendent .

Belgium

See Kerkschip St. Jozef , Antwerp

See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ Catholic news agency : Germany's “last ship chaplain” died , December 13, 2016.
  2. ^ Klagenfurt: nave for church services on Lake Wörthersee «kleinezeitung.at. In: kleinezeitung.at. Retrieved August 28, 2017 .
  3. ↑ The nave on Lake Wörthersee "baptized" - being Evangelical. (No longer available online.) In: evangelisch-sein.at. Archived from the original on August 28, 2017 ; accessed on August 28, 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 / evangelisch-sein.at

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