Symposium Marking "750 Years of St. Nikolai"
The St. Nikolai Friends Association invites you to a two-day symposium featuring a diverse program. Registration is required to attend on Saturday. For more information, please visit the Friends Association’s website:
https://www.verein-st-nikolai-stralsund.de/aus-dem-vereinsgeschehen/veranstaltungen-2026/kirche-in-bewegung-die-stralsunder-nikolaikirche-im-20.-jahrhundert
PROGRAM for Saturday, September 12, 2026
9:00 a.m. Welcome
Lectures on the history of the Stralsund church in the 20th century:
“Pastor, Conservative, and Nationalist—The Stralsund Superintendent D.Dr. Johannes Hornburg (1846–1927)”
Christoph von Houwald, Stralsund
“In Democracy and Dictatorship. Church Life in Stralsund 1918–1945”
Prof. Dr. Thomas K. Kuhn, church historian, University of Greifswald
– Coffee break –
“The Church in a Changing Socialist City”
Pastor Dr. Irmfried Garbe, Chair of the Working Group on Pomeranian Church History
“New Freedoms?! – The Stralsund Church Congresses of 1978 and 1981”
Dr. Sophie Ludewig, journalist
12:30 p.m. Lunch break (on your own)
2:00 p.m. Guided walking tours: “Traces of Church Life in Stralsund” – Meet at the Old Market
4:00 p.m. Coffee break at St. Nikolai
4:30 p.m. “Traces of the 20th Century at St. Nikolai”
Prof. Dr. Karin Berkemann, moderneREGIONAL
Evening Program
6:00 p.m. Organ tour
7:00 p.m. Organ concert “Music from the Gothic Era to the Present”
KMD Matthias Pech, Stralsund
