Kindergarten St. Michael

What Kindergarten St. Michael does

Katholische Kirchengemeinde Pfarrei Heilig Geist Bergkamen is a non-profit Catholic parish community operating across three physical church sites (Herz-Jesu-Kirche, Elisabeth-Kirche, and St. Michael) in Bergkamen, Germany, under the ecclesiastical governance of the Erzbistum Paderborn (Archdiocese of Paderborn). The parish delivers the full spectrum of Catholic sacramental and pastoral services — including Baptism, First Communion, Confirmation, Marriage, Anointing of the Sick, and Confession — alongside grief support, youth and family programs, religious education, and community engagement activities. It also operates ancillary charitable and social-service programs, notably the Kleiderladen CARIert (charity clothing shop), the Flüchtlingshilfe Haus Frieden (refugee support center established 2016), and a Familienzentrum & Kitas cluster that includes the referenced Kindergarten St. Michael, which provides early childhood education and family services.

The organization's technical footprint is modest and non-commercial. The parish website (TYPO3 CMS) is hosted on Hetzner infrastructure in Germany and instrumented with Matomo analytics hosted by Dialog Medien Agentur GmbH. Community outreach runs through public Facebook and Instagram profiles, a YouTube channel that live-streams Sunday Mass from Herz-Jesu-Kirche, and a monthly email newsletter distributed via Brevo — the latter being discontinued due to low engagement. The Liturgie-Server provides an embedded liturgical calendar module. There is no proprietary software, no API surface, no app, and no AI/ML capability of any kind.

The entity generates no commercial revenue. Religious services and pastoral counseling are explicitly provided free of charge. As a Körperschaft des öffentlichen Rechts (public-law corporation) within the German Catholic Church structure, the parish is funded through archdiocese-administered church tax (Kirchensteuer) allocations and voluntary donations; it does not have private-equity or venture-capital ownership and does not disclose financial figures. The parish is led by Pfarrer Thorsten Neudenberger and is currently undergoing structural transformation: starting December 2026 it will be consolidated into the new Seelsorgeraum Unna as part of the Erzbistum Paderborn's broader Bistumsprozess reorganization, driven by declining clergy personnel and weakening church membership across the archdiocese.

Name

Kindergarten St. Michael

Legal name

Katholische Kirchengemeinde Pfarrei Heilig Geist Bergkamen

Website

https://st-michael.de

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Non-profit Catholic parish community (Pfarrei Heilig Geist) in Bergkamen, Germany, operating three churches under the Erzbistum Paderborn and delivering sacraments, pastoral care, youth programs, charity services, and a kindergarten subsidiary free of charge.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Early Childhood Education

NAICS

Child Care Services (624410), Child Care Services (62441), Child Care Services (6244)

SIC

Services-Child Day Care Services (8351)

akta.pro primary industry

Preschool Programs within Childcare Centers (EDACABAL)

akta.pro secondary industry

Faith-Based Preschools (EDACABAF)

Keywords

• Early childhood education
• Kindergarten services
• Catholic preschool
• Childcare services
• Religious education

Headquarters

HQ city

Bergkamen

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Kindergarten St. Michael is a Catholic-affiliated kindergarten providing early childhood education and daycare services to young children in Bergkamen, Germany. It operates as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Pfarrei Heilig Geist Bergkamen parish, under the parish's Familienzentrum & Kitas (family center) program, integrating preschool education with Catholic faith formation and family support services.

Product overview

The source data pertains to a Catholic church parish (Pfarrei Heilig Geist Bergkamen), not a kindergarten. No products or services related to Kindergarten St. Michael are present in the source data.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Kleiderladen CARIert: Charity clothing store selling donated men's, women's, and children's clothing to those in need.
• Haus Frieden

Products and services

• Kindergarten St. Michael

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Erzbistum PaderborncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe parish belongs to the Erzbistum Paderborn (Archdiocese of Paderborn), which provides overarching ecclesiastical governance, resources, and the Bistumsprozess transformation framework. The diocese is implementing a new pastoral structure with 21 Seelsorgeräume (pastoral areas), with the parish belonging to the new Seelsorgeraum Unna.

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Fröbel e.V. Fröbel is a major German non-profit operator of kindergartens and family centers with a strong pedagogical identity, the closest large-scale secular parallel to the Familienzentrum model in which Kindergarten St. Michael sits.
• Caritas: Caritas is the German Catholic social welfare organization operating a national network of Catholic kindergartens (Caritas-Kitas) and family centers, the most direct faith-based parallel to Kindergarten St. Michael's parish-anchored model.
• Diakonie Deutschland: Diakonie is the social welfare arm of the Protestant churches in Germany and operates a large network of faith-based kindergartens and family centers, mirroring the religious-organization-anchored early childhood education model of the subject.
• pme Familienservice: pme Familienservice operates family centers, daycare, and backup childcare across Germany, competing for similar dual-income families seeking integrated early childhood services.
• AWO (Arbeiterwohlfahrt): AWO is one of Germany's largest welfare operators running hundreds of kindergartens and family centers, directly comparable as a non-profit social-organization-anchored early childhood education provider competing for the same families.
• Kindertagesstätte der Evangelischen Kirche (EKD-Kitas): The Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) operates a national network of Protestant kindergartens and family centers through its regional churches, the closest faith-based parallel at scale to the Catholic-anchored kindergarten model.
• Educcare: Educcare is a German operator of multiple kindergartens and family centers with an integrated family-services model, structurally comparable to the Familienzentrum & Kitas bundle surrounding Kindergarten St. Michael.
• Internationaler Bund (IB): IB is a large German non-profit operating kindergartens, family centers, and youth services nationwide, comparable in mission and operational structure to a parish-based Familienzentrum.

Others

• Der Kinderschutzbund (DKSB): The German Child Protection Association operates family-support and some early childhood services; relevant as an adjacent child-and-family-services ecosystem player rather than a direct daycare competitor.

Emerging players

• Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe: Johanniter operates a smaller but growing network of daycare and family services in Germany, an emerging faith-adjacent welfare competitor with overlapping mission and target families.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCQ_1mogn379b2sIAEd54EbQ
• Facebookfacebook.com/heilig.geist.bergkamen
• Instagraminstagram.com/katholisch_in_bergkamen
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/kindergarten-st-michael

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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