Rengsdorf church vandalised with stones

Case information
Incident date
Country
Germany
Place
Rengsdorf
Categories
  • Social Hostility / Intolerance
Attack Against
  • Faith
Perpetrator / Motive Indicators
  • Private
Hate Crime & Violent Incidents
  • Vandalism (all)
  • Vandalism of Church
Place of Incident
  • Church
Bias Indicators
  • Lack of Other Motive
  • Pattern or Frequency of Attacks
  • Significance of Property/Structure/Location to religious community
Reported to Police
  • Yes
Response of Local Authorities
  • Investigated

As reported in September 2024, the Catholic Church of St Kastor in Rengsdorf, Rhineland-Palatinate, was again the target of vandalism in early August. In a recent incident, unknown persons threw stones at the church, breaking three large stained glass windows facing the street. A window to the sacristy and a display case were also damaged.

This act of vandalism was discovered by the church's sexton, Franz-Rudolf Nalbach, who noticed that the right-hand window had been broken three to four weeks before the report.

This is not the first time St Kastor has been vandalised; a similar incident occurred in 2021.

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