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Duo develops digital church guides - this makes it possible to discover the church from the sofa

2020-09-22T18:08:40.763Z


Florian Wildmoser and Sven Sassnowski have developed a digital church guide that anyone interested can use to find out more about a church on the Internet.


Florian Wildmoser and Sven Sassnowski have developed a digital church guide that anyone interested can use to find out more about a church on the Internet.

Inhausen -

The first thing that strikes you in the church in Inhausen is the ceiling fresco.

A work of art by Johann Georg Dieffenbrunner stretches across the entire vault of the ceiling.

The painter placed St. Mary in the center because the Inhauser Church is a St. Mary's Church.

The ceiling painting is a specialty and is considered one of the most important Rococo works.

Florian Wildmoser and Sven Sassnowski have singled out this special feature of the church for a new type of digital church leader.

The two do not come from the Dachau district - Wildmoser is from Fahrenzhausen and Sassnowski from Saulgrub near Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

Nevertheless, the two started their new project in the parish association of Fahrenzhausen-Haimhausen.

"The contact with the parish association was close," says the 35-year-old Wildmoser.

"We ran into open doors with pastoral advisor Bernhard Skrabal."

Digital Church Guide: Concept is simple

Your concept is very simple.

The duo presents individual churches on the church leader's website.

"Small churches in particular have a special story to tell," says 39-year-old Sassnowski.

At the moment, the Inhauser Church and the Kuratiekirche St. Georg in Weng are on the website.

Five more are in progress.

Wildmoser and Sassnowski receive the information about the places of worship from the parish associations and feed this into their digital church guide together with photos of the church both from the inside and outside, drone recordings and audio tracks of the bell.

But there is nothing new behind their idea, as Wildmoser says.

“We wanted to raise the church leader, who is usually available in paper form in the churches, to a multimedia level,” he says.

Wildmoser and Sassnowski want to tell stories of a church

With their church leader, the two of them primarily want to "tell the impressive stories of a church," says Wildmoser.

“We care about the church as a building and don't want to do missionary work.” They highlight special features such as the ceiling fresco by Dieffenbrunner.

People can find out about the church with the church leader - regardless of whether the church is open or closed.

“So people can virtually click their way through a church and see whether they are interested in the story behind it,” says Sassnowski.

The website should in no way replace an on-site visit.

"Only then can people feel the atmosphere of a church."

The duo attach great importance to the quality of the content

Wildmoser and Sassnowski attach great importance to the quality of the content.

That is why they work with professional photographers, for example.

Her dream is that the church leader's visitors can walk through the church virtually using a 3-D model - similar to Google Street View.

"Hopefully that will come soon," says Sassnowski.

At the moment the church leader is still a project that the two of them are paying out of their own pocket.

Texts, photos, drone recordings - in the future Wildmoser and Sassnowski would like to settle these matters with the respective parish association.

"He has to release part of the money for it," says Wildmoser.

The two firmly believe that they can convince other parish associations of their project.

"With the church leader, the churches have a platform with which they can go modern ways," says Sassnowski.

Together with the parish associations, the two want to reach everyone, whether young or old, Christian or non-Christian.

The digital church leader

can be found on the Internet at der-kirchenfuehrer.de.

More information is available there.

Source: merkur

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