Sunday School

[Eva Elisabeth]

You only have to pay if you are Lutheran or Catholic, and it's up to you to leave/secede (but for some professions, such reduces your job options, a lot of kindergartens, hospitals, nursing homes and other social/care institutions are operated by the church(es) and would only employ "members"). How other denominations collect their taxes or donations is up to them. Of all citizens, there are ~30% Catholics, 30% Lutherans, 30% atheists, 7% Muslims, and the remaining 3% of other denominations. If there are any Episcopal churches they fall under the 3% as do Jewish and Baptist, and of the latter two you would find a church at least in big cities. (It will be easier to find a mosque though, I guess.) Most of our public holidays are religious ones, enforced by the Catholic and Lutheran church as is that shops are not allowed to open on Sundays etc, that might give an idea of the influence the church has.

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Laurie, I did a research - you could go to one of these 14 cities (all former or current British/US military bases):
http://www.caecg.de/
And better not to move to former East Germany (except Berlin).