Wattenscheid.
The Protestant community in Bochum-Wattenscheid shows its colorful diversity. The new stele will be unveiled alongside the historic tombstones.
“We are building our future” was the motto of the thematic afternoon in the Protestant parish of Wattenscheid on Sunday (15th). Symbolically, the visitors in the old church first built their “free space”, which is the project name for the special services.https://www.waz.de/staedte/bochum/party-statt-beten-entwidmete-kirche-bleibt -meeting place-id237368027.html
An offer for young families with children is to be made five more times this year. Pastor Frank Dressler and the children on the second Sunday of the “Frei-Raum” series unveiled the “Lebensstein” in front of the historic church building.
In October, at the first project meeting, interested parties designed small stone tablets with the Gelsenkirchen stonemason and sculptor Martin Künne. 27 very different plaques now adorn the stele made of Ruhr sandstone (“from Herdecke, i.e. regional”), which weighs a good 110 kilograms.
Wattenscheid municipality collects ideas for the design
Dressler described at the presentation: “This is now our all stone. It shows in a colorful and diverse way that life in our community is also full of surprises and that as many people as possible, big and small, can help shape the open spaces according to their taste.” Dressler humorously described the collection of ideas that afternoon as: “We don’t know where we want to go, but we want to be there first.”
The open design of the offer as a “messy church” (roughly: “untidy church”) comes from the English-speaking world and aims to create a network of relationships among visitors. The morning service is omitted.
The evangelical community will soon have to move on to the community center anyway due to construction work. The roof truss of the old church is being extensively renovated, and the baroque altar and the organ have to be covered to protect them from dust.
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