Route of industrial culture - sacred buildings

Merkez Mosque in Duisburg

Synagogue in Duisburg inner harbor

Liebfrauenkirche in Duisburg

Holy Cross Church (southwest view) in Gladbeck-Butendorf

Tower of the Holy Cross Church in Gelsenkirchen-Ückendorf

Altenhofkapelle, today the chapel of the Alfried Krupp Hospital in Essen-Rüttenscheid

Old synagogue in Essen

Ruhr motorway church

Sri Kamadchi Ampal Temple in Hamm

Churches, mosques, synagogues and a Hindu temple can be found on the 26th themed route of sacred buildings . The Ruhr Regional Association published the route at the beginning of May 2013, thus adding a completely new route to the route of industrial culture after a few years .

The 70 or so sacred buildings , some of which have been deconsecrated and converted, were selected because they are typical of the Ruhr area . Church buildings from the Middle Ages were not included because they were built before what was later known as the Ruhr area. The route is intended to bring the diversity and history of denominations and religions in the Ruhr area closer.

Stations on the route

Protestant Kreuzeskirche , built in 1905, a listed building since 1985, open district church in Duisburg-Marxloh
Merkez Mosque , with meeting place, Islam library / archive, Duisburg-Marxloh
Catholic Church of Our Lady , has also been used by the Russian Orthodox community, Duisburg-Bruckhausen, since 2006
Protestant Jakobuskirche (only the tower is preserved) and formerly Calvinist prayer house , today the parish hall, Duisburg-Ruhrort
Liebfrauenkirche , today supported by the Burning Dornbusch Foundation, the upper church, profaned in 2009, is available for cultural events, church services and city pastoral work in the lower church, Duisburg-Mitte
Synagogue at the inner harbor in Duisburg
St. Mary's Birth , built in 1928/29 in the New Objectivity style and with financial support from Thyssen, Mülheim an der Ruhr-Mitte
Resurrection Church Heilig Kreuz , profaned in 2007, rededicated in 2009 as an urn burial site , Mülheim an der Ruhr-Nord
St. Barbara , living mining tradition u. a. with the annual musical in honor of Nikolaus Groß , Mülheim an der Ruhr-Dümpten
St. Mariae Rosenkranz , Mülheim an der Ruhr-Styrum
Former Holy Family Church , built in 1958, now used for the Oberhausener Tafel
Friedenskirche Oberhausen-Sterkrade , the grave sites of the Jacobi, Huyssen and Lueg families are located in the adjacent Protestant cemetery
St. Ludgerus , Alt-Schermbeck
St. Antonius , the youngest Catholic church, completed in 1997, Neukirchen-Vluyn
Heart of Jesus , Bottrop
Holy Cross , Bottrop
St. Marien , Gladbeck
DITIB mosque , Gladbeck
Holy Cross , Gladbeck-Butendorf
Martin Luther Forum Ruhr , in the former Markuskirche, Gladbeck
Herz Jesu , Gladbeck-Zweckel
Bleckkirche , Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck
Christ Church , Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck
New Synagogue , Gelsenkirchen
Holy Cross , Gelsenkirchen-Ückendorf
St. Josef , Gelsenkirchen-Schalke
St. Dimitrios , Herten
Christ Church , Recklinghausen
St. Johannes , Recklinghausen-Suderwich
Friedenskirche Datteln , 2007 rededication to the ship's church of the inland shipping pastoral care of the Protestant parish of Recklinghausen
St. Antonius , Castrop-Ickern
Ev. Katernberg Church , so-called miner's cathedral , Essen-Katernberg
St. Nikolaus , Essen-Stoppenberg
To the holy guardian angels , Essen-Frillendorf
Apostle Church and Emergency Church , Essen-Frohnhausen