Ge-DENK-Time: Remembering Together and Keeping Responsibility in Utting
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Ge-DENK-Time: Remembering Together, Keeping Responsibility
When the darkness of November evening falls over Utting, the ecumenical Ge-DENK-Time invites to a silent path of remembrance. The Protestant parish Ammersee-West, the Catholic parish community Utting-Schondorf, and the municipality of Utting commemorate the people who were persecuted, forced into labor, and murdered during the Shoah.
A Silent Path Through Memory
The memorial evening begins at the memorial on Josef-Clemens-Straße. From there, a silent path of remembrance leads to the death march memorial on Holzhauser Straße and further to the Jewish cemetery. The stations connect local history with the overarching commemoration of the victims of National Socialism.
Ecumenical Commemoration in Utting
The Ge-DENK-Time stands for a shared religious experience across denominational boundaries. Prayer, silence, reflection, and mindful walking create a space for mourning, dignity, and responsibility. The participating churches and the municipality thus send a message against forgetting, against anti-Semitism, and against any form of inhuman ideology.
Remembrance of the Kaufering-Utting Concentration Camp Subcamp
The focus is on those individuals who were systematically murdered in the Kaufering-Utting concentration camp subcamp through forced labor, hunger, and the arbitrariness of the camp personnel. The local memorials and the Jewish cemetery make visible that the crimes of National Socialism also occurred in the immediate vicinity of Utting.
A Faith Experience with Social Responsibility
The spiritual atmosphere of this commemoration arises not through grand staging, but through shared silence, mindful walking, and conscious lingering at the places of remembrance. The Ge-DENK-Time connects Christian peace ethics, historical responsibility, and the commitment to the dignity of every human being.
Visitors can expect a dignified ecumenical memorial evening at several locations of the local memorial culture. Those who experience Ge-DENK-Time live together with others send a sign for humanity, peace, and the commitment that such crimes should never be repeated.
