Kirchenamt Hildesheim

What Kirchenamt Hildesheim does

Kirchenamt Hildesheim is the administrative office of the Ev.-luth. Kirchenkreis Hildesheim-Sarstedt, a regional district (Kirchenkreis) of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Hanover (Ev.-luth. Landeskirche Hannovers) operating across the Hildesheim and Sarstedt region in Lower Saxony, Germany. The legal entity coordinates multiple parishes anchored by five principal churches — St. Andreas (Bürgerkirche), Michaeliskirche, St. Lamberti, St. Thomas, and St. Jakobi — and delivers a portfolio of spiritual, educational, cultural, and social services spanning baptism, weddings, funerals, pastoral counseling, worship services, religious education, youth programs (Kirchenkreisjugenddienst), church music (Kirchenmusik), literary and cultural events at Literaturhaus St. Jakobi, and a city pilgrimage path (Stadtpilgerweg).

The underlying 'product architecture' is a single unified church district with co-equal programmatic modules rather than a software platform: services are distributed through physical churches, church-operated Kindertagesstätten (KiTas), an information website (kk-hs.de), and a daily devotional/weekly broadcast partnership with the local citizen radio station Tonkuhle. No proprietary technology, APIs, or AI systems are described in the available data. The organization is non-commercial; worship and pastoral services are provided free of charge, and the organization is governed by a superintendent and the Kirchenkreissynode (church district synod).

Revenue mechanics differ from a commercial enterprise: funding flows primarily through the German Kirchensteuer (church tax), collected by state tax authorities as a percentage of members' income tax and remitted to the Landeskirche, which then allocates to individual Kirchenkreise based on membership and need. Listed headcount is 14 administrative employees, which understates the total workforce given operations across parishes, daycare centers, and youth services. The organization also publishes a Schutzkonzept (protection concept) for vulnerable populations and Hinweisgeberschutzgesetz compliance, indicating engagement with German safeguarding and whistleblower regulations.

Name

Kirchenamt Hildesheim

Legal name

Ev.-luth. Kirchenkreis Hildesheim-Sarstedt

Website

https://hildesheim-kirche.de

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Kirchenamt Hildesheim is the administrative body of the Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirchenkreis Hildesheim-Sarstedt, coordinating parishes, Kindertagesstätten, youth, music, and cultural programs for residents of the Hildesheim-Sarstedt region in Lower Saxony, Germany, funded primarily through the state-collected Kirchensteuer.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Religious and Community Services

NAICS

Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations (813)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYBPAGAJAA

Local Congregations & Worship Communities (Churches, Mosques, Temples, Synagogues)

Business & Public Services/Nonprofit, NGO & Social Services/Religious & Faith-Based Organizations

Keywords

• Religious services
• Pastoral care
• Church music
• Youth ministry
• Church daycare

Headquarters

HQ city

Hildesheim

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Church Tax (Kirchensteuer): German church organizations receive funding through a church tax collected by the state tax authorities, calculated as a percentage of income tax. This is the primary funding source for Lutheran church districts in Germany.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

The Kirchenamt Hildesheim operates as the administrative body of the Ev.-luth. Kirchenkreis Hildesheim-Sarstedt, an Evangelical-Lutheran church district in Lower Saxony, Germany. It coordinates multiple parishes and offers worship services, pastoral care, lifecycle rites (baptisms, weddings, funerals), youth programs, church music, a literature house, church-operated daycare centers (Kindertagesstätten), and radio ministry broadcasts through the local citizen radio station Tonkuhle.

Product overview

Kirchenamt Hildesheim operates as the Kirchenkreis Hildesheim-Sarstedt, an Evangelical-Lutheran church district offering a multi-service portfolio centered on spiritual, educational, cultural, and social programs. The core offering is the church district itself, which coordinates parishes across Hildesheim and Sarstedt. Around this core, the district provides specialized modules including Kirchenmusik (church music coordinated by a district cantor), Literaturhaus St. Jakobi (a literature house bridging language and contemporary culture), Kindertagesstätten (daycare and kindergarten services), Kirchenkreisjugenddienst (youth services with camps, seminars, and workshops), and pastoral services such as Taufe/Trauung (baptism and wedding rites). Additional modules cover radio ministry (Kirche im Radio via Tonkuhle), a city pilgrimage path (Stadtpilgerweg), a superintendent's office, and a job listings portal. The overall architecture is a single unified church district offering multiple co-equal programs and services rather than a platform-plus-modules software product.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Kirchenkreis Hildesheim-Sarstedt (Church District)

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Tonkuhle (Bürgerradio)minorGTM or Marketing PartnerTonkuhle is a local citizen radio station that broadcasts daily short devotionals and weekly programming about church life. This partnership extends the church district's reach to radio listeners in the region.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Others

• Caritas Deutschland: The Catholic counterpart to Diakonie, providing social services in Germany. Comparable as an adjacent faith-based social services operator whose scope (childcare, family services, elder care) overlaps with the ecclesiastical community services the Kirchenkreis offers.
• Diakonie Deutschland: The social welfare and charitable arm of the German Protestant church (EKD). Comparable because it operates many of the same adjacent services (childcare, youth, counseling, elder care) that the Kirchenkreis provides or partners with, and represents the institutional infrastructure linked to the church ecosystem.

Broad incumbents

• Ev.-luth. Landeskirche Hannovers: The parent-landeskirche of which Kirchenamt Hildesheim's Kirchenkreis is a district. Provides governance, oversight, and shared resources; comparable as the broader institutional framework within which the Kirchenkreis operates.
• Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland (EKD): The national umbrella organization of German Protestant Landeskirchen. Operates at a higher level but is comparable as the broader institutional, policy, and advocacy layer for the type of Lutheran church administration the Kirchenkreis exemplifies.
• Erzdiözese München und Freising: Large Catholic archdiocese in Bavaria operating parishes, schools, daycare, and cultural programs. Comparable as a similarly faith-based, multi-service regional religious administrative body in Germany, though Catholic and operating at greater scale.

Direct peers

• Ev.-luth. Kirchenkreis Hannover: Another Evangelical-Lutheran church district within the same Landeskirche Hannovers, operating multiple parishes, daycare centers, and community programs in the Hannover region. It is the most structurally comparable Lutheran Kirchenkreis peer, sharing governance, funding model, and service mix.
• Ev.-luth. Kirchenkreis Braunschweig: Lutheran church district in the Braunschweig region of Lower Saxony, also part of the Landeskirche Hannovers. Operates the same multi-program portfolio (parishes, KiTas, youth, music) under the same legal and financial framework.
• Ev.-luth. Kirchenkreis Göttingen: Lutheran Kirchenkreis within the Landeskirche Hannovers serving the Göttingen area with comparable parish, youth, music, and daycare programming. Comparable scale, structure, and church-tax funding model.
• Ev.-luth. Kirchenkreis Lüneburg: Lutheran Kirchenkreis within the same Landeskirche Hannovers, covering the Lüneburg area with parish, educational, and cultural programming. Direct operational and structural peer.

Regional players

• Bistum Hildesheim: The Catholic diocese covering the same Lower Saxony region as the Kirchenkreis Hildesheim-Sarstedt. Comparable because it operates parishes, schools, daycare, and pastoral services in the identical geographic footprint, providing a denomination-level mirror for benchmarking.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/kirchenamt-hildesheim

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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