committed and sometimes controversial panel members and about 100 attendees of the forum + Quarter Ruhr city of Essen eV in the church market questions about the future of the abandoned Churches in the Ruhr "? Leave the church in the village" The invitation to the podium were followed: Dr. Christoph Zöpel, in the 1980s, Minister for Urban Development in North Rhine-Westphalia and as such, "father" of the industrial cultural thought, Hans-Dieter Collinet Director of Urban Development in the Ministry of Construction NRW, Dr. Herbert Fendrich, Representative of the diocese for the church and art, Michael Heering, pastor and former superintendent of the Protestant Church, Dr. Christine Darmstadt, architect, church historian, color designer, Joachim Greifenberg, evangelical pastor of the Church of St. Luke Holsworthy and Andreas Bierod, youth leader and educator (BDKJD). Bierod as recently demonstrated in the round less in the maintenance of empty and oversized church buildings as an active and financially better-equipped community work, interested while the architect and monument expert Chris Darmstadt vehemently for the preservation of as many - no longer "pre-recorded" - entered the church buildings, because of their local and regional identity mooring. She called for a "protected and reflection period" of ten to 15 years. Head shaking and defense of the church leaders of both denominations. For this purpose, the means ranged far from the best intentions and "it hurts to close a church, but in the Ruhr area, the distance is on average one Km to the closest church to overcome. " The church practitioners showed the proposal Michael Heering not opposed in principle to use church buildings in the foreseeable future ecumenical.
vehemently for the preservation of listed church buildings - even as a state responsibility - was a former Urban Development Minister Christoph Zöpel: "What the industry culture was with her identity-preserving moment on the part of communities and the country to stem right and should, in the churches in the same as possible. Financial and budgetary reservations apply only as long as there is the political will is lacking. " group picture From left: Manfred Schoenberg, Moderator, Christoph Zöpel, Joachim Greven Stein, Andreas Bierod, Ernst Wauer (CEO Forum City + district), Stephan Pasztor (Chairman), Herbert Fendrich, Christel Darmstadt, Hans-Dieter Collinet, Michael Heering, and the two Forums Board Members Chris Voigt and Joachim Sälzer
