Campingkirche

Camping Church is the name of a range of Protestant and Catholic churches for campers. At the campsite an open program for campers will be offered. The term camping church marks at evangelical Christians as a church the way, is not clear-cut. Also understand what the individual churches including camping is very heterogeneous. The spectrum ranges from occasional church services at the campsite that offers the local church, to a varied daily program during the holiday season. But living and working volunteer team leaders at the campsite. A great camping Church as the leisure center Upper Rhine (Baden- Württemberg), offers approximately 90 days per year with about 60 volunteers a program that includes more than 40 events in the peak season per week. Many of the camping church use the two symbols of camping church. This is for a cross of red tesserae. The other shows a stylized boat off a trailer and a tent.

Program

Possible religious program are worship, morning and evening prayers and meditations. Examples of the non-religious program are child care with community singing, games and crafts, children's parties, lantern parade and bonfire, youth games, crafts and sports for adults and crafts, sports, movie night, skat evenings and musical evening. It is striking that is, have the same names for some program points of the different camping churches and this despite significant differences of content. Very often there are, for example, in the children's program, a children's hour and a sandman.

Objectives

The church dares with this pastoral care of tourism out of the safe walls of their fixed order into the narrow world of glass and a campsite. Here, looking church direct contact with people. The fact that it participates in the daily schedule, the joys and sorrows of the people who are rejected for a limited time together, it is part of a "church on time."

History

In the 1960 'has been discussed in many congregations and church bodies about whether the church should respond to the empty places of worship during the holiday season and will accompany the vacationer during his vacation. For this reason, the end of the 1960 ' and the beginning of the 1970 ' year was the first camping churches in the German resort areas such as Eifel, Lüneburg Heath, North Sea and Lake Constance founded.

Camping Church in the Archdiocese of Freiburg

The Archdiocese of Freiburg organized and financed two camping churches. As the two work closely together, they have a program with respect to a similar extent and content focus. A camping church, it is one of the largest in Germany, works at the leisure center Upper Rhine (48 ° 47 ' N, 8 ° 2' O48.7756628.036927Koordinaten: 48 ° 46 '32 " N, 8 ° 2' 13" E ) in Stollhofen ( Rhine Münster), located between Buhl and Baden- Baden on the Rhine, and provides the campers one of the largest programs. Per season visit 40,000 to 50,000 campers setting up. For a program to be offered at about 90 days of use, about 60 volunteers are active.

The second offers their program at Lake Constance in the campsite Horn ( 47 ° 41 ' N, 9 ° 0' O47.687888.99573 ) in horn at. There, a program is offered at five weeks in the summer holidays in Baden-Württemberg.

Program

As religious offerings, there is the Sunday service, morning and evening prayers impulses. By far the largest part of the program is not religious. So in the morning the children's hour with singing, games and crafts will be for children aged 3 to 13 years factory offered daily and evening, the Sandman, again with some hands-on songs, and a bedtime story. Teens and adults can repeatedly come to Basteltreff week. It offered several techniques in parallel. For the same target group and morning exercise almost every afternoon volleyball is offered three days a week. There are either on Saturday afternoon a large children's party or the evening after the Sandman, a lantern procession with bonfires. As evening events, there is the youth rock, family movie nights, night walks or a skat evenings. Not just for rainy days, there is the books and game rental.

Team

The composition of the team is very heterogeneous. In 2008, for the following occupational groups worked with: high school seniors, educators, IT operator, nurse, teacher, physicists, students, social workers or educators, students, technicians and theologians ( It was for simplicity used the male form, although most of the staff are female ). Most come as an intern for camping church and many of the device then remain for many years, some even get decades. It is this mixture of experienced team leaders and the fresh wind of the novice distinguishes the team.

History in the diocese of Freiburg

In 1970, the camping chaplaincy was established on two campsites on Lake Constance, in Hagnau and Allen Bach, along with the Evangelical Church. For the Catholic side organized a Father of the SAC, Rector of the Catholic school building and boarding Hersberg, a team that consisted of several students. One of these students, organized since the camping Church in the Archdiocese of Freiburg. In 1977, the first negotiations for a church camping at the leisure center Upper Rhine, Stollhofen (Rhein Münster), out. In 1978, for the first time a team was on the court and five weeks there for the campers. Since that time, the offer and use of time to this extent, continuously expanded. The use of Lake Constance was passed until 1989 at various camps of the local communities. 1990, there were by the Archdiocese only at the campsite Willam a program. Since this year, the two camping churches working in the Archdiocese together very closely. In 1997, the use of the campsite Willam ( Allen Bach) was due to the conditions laid into the campsite Horn and since then there is an established institution.

Literature / Sources

• Südkurier from March 25, 1970 Article: Campsite chaplaincy first in Hagnau and Allen Bach.
• Konrad Journal on July 11, 1976 Article: Exemplary pastoral camping on Lake Constance.
• Konrad Journal 1978 Item: An unobtrusive range of the campers
• Germany Kultur 30 August 2008 at 16:30 Post: Sandman, clown and pastors
• Place between Stretch and camper to God: Badisches Newspaper of September 5, 2008, Article