Werner Pfetzing Stiftung Himmelsfels
About the funder
The Werner Pfetzing Foundation Himmelsfels is a non-profit private foundation based in Spangenberg (Hesse). It promotes intercultural youth, educational, and faith work on the 10-hectare site of the former limestone quarry "Galgenberg," now known as "Himmelsfels." Core tasks include the expansion, maintenance, and affordable provision of the foundation’s properties (especially the castle estate) for operational program work, which is primarily carried out by Himmelsfels gGmbH with comparable non-profit objectives. The foundation supports, among other things, further training in voice training, pop and gospel singing, intercultural church, youth welfare, and biblical storytelling, as well as education at a state-recognized college for educators and community pedagogues and the Himmelsfels Academy for intercultural church and society. Since 2013, the foundation has mainly fulfilled its purpose by mobilizing infrastructure and liquidity assistance for partners and networks in the church and social sectors.
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Mission & Vision
"Let all that you do be done in love" (1 Cor 16:14) – the Werner Pfetzing Foundation Himmelsfels aims to bring together people from all over the world at Himmelsfels into a lived intercultural community, to promote Christian youth work, education, and international understanding, and to create places of reflection, encounter, and inspiration.
Target groups
The funding programs are aimed at artists, theologians, and educators who wish to lead or participate in advanced training courses (e.g., voice training, pop and gospel singing, intercultural training); youth and seminar groups, pilgrims, and retreat guests who use the castle residence as a conference center or retreat house; intercultural networks, church congregations, and professionals working on intercultural openness and integration in the church and social sectors; as well as students and trainees at the Himmelsfels College for educators and community pedagogues, and participants of the Himmelsfels Academy for intercultural church and society.