Faith in decline: the future of Germany’s churches

DW (English)

Christian churches across Germany are closing as congregations shrink and upkeep costs soar. The former Protestant church of St. Luke in Essen is now a kindergarten, apartment block, and physiotherapy practice.

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00:00Once a Protestant church, now a place for living, learning, and healing.

00:04I find it good that the church is used for such a good reason.

00:11To help people who are helping people, and to be there for people who are helping people, that is the belief.

00:19As Christianity declines across Germany, churches are closing and transforming in ways you'd never imagine.

00:25The former St. Luke's Church is now a kindergarten, an apartment, and a physiotherapy practice.

00:31When we go up there, then it's actually the area where preached.

00:35It's a different feeling, a nice, calm feeling.

00:39There are more people who really came in and said, here we're going to get married, here we're going to confirmation.

00:46Closing St. Luke's hasn't been easy for everyone.

00:49I didn't think so good for the old people who came in because of their faith.

00:53Despite the debate, new lives are already taking shape here.

01:03St. Luke's is no longer a place of worship, but is still a building with purpose.

01:08St. Luke's hasn't been asymptomatic yet.

01:09St. Luke's hasn't been nice about tonight, except for an adult up here today.

01:11St. Luke's hasn't been a place of worship.

01:12St. Luke's haven't been broadcast bats,ails are not only a marathon outside of London.

01:13So you've just been a Наquist nation, or my friend...

01:15Only a noises is an American Ну and SolidSystem this morning.

01:17St. Luke's haven't been able to meet his expectations.

01:19St. Luke's bén not alone when it comes up but it seems that water is totally dry enough.

01:20St. Luke's hasn't come yet.

01:21St. Luke's haven't been waiting for Jesus for our sake ofctions.

01:23St. Luke's hasn't been busy hours about this time, and besoin, believing in a pharmaceutical standpoint.

01:26St. Luke's hasn't been civilian that if you're going through off.

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