Photo Gallery Churches for the Highest Bidder
Churches in Germany today are being forced to make dramatic cuts due to dire financial straits and declining membership. Hundreds of chuches around the country have closed, including this former Catholic facility, the St. Peter Parish Church in Mönchengladbach near the Dutch border.
The former religious facility is known today as the Kletterkirche, or climbing church, and is used for the purely secular activity of indoor rock climbing.
Workers at the Church of the Holy Spirit in Hamburg remove windows as they prepare to tear the building down.
Restaurateur Achim Fiolka has created a restaurant in the St. Martin Church in Bielefeld, where patrons relax in lounge chairs and dine on white truffle cream and wasabi dip to the tinkling of background piano music.
The Church of St. Maximin in Trier, a former abbey, now houses school physical education classes and concert performances.
