Leaving the church declaration
Source: Serviceportal Rheinland-PfalzIf you wish to leave a religious community, you must register this with the responsible office.
You must submit the declaration of withdrawal from the church in person to the responsible office. The resulting change in religious affiliation under registration law is transmitted electronically by the responsible office to the Federal Central Tax Office (BZSt). The employer is automatically informed of the withdrawal from the church by retrieving the electronic wage tax deduction features (ELStAM), which are stored at the Federal Central Tax Office. It is therefore not necessary for you to contact the tax office.
If you are leaving the church, the municipal administration of the independent municipality, the association municipality administration and, in independent and large towns belonging to a district, the municipal administration of your place of residence or habitual abode is responsible.
You can leave the church at the municipal administration of the municipality not belonging to an association, the association municipality administration or, in cities not belonging to a district or large district, the municipal administration of your place of residence or habitual abode.
You can declare your withdrawal from a church, religious community or ideological community if you have reached the age of 14. If you have not yet reached the age of 14, your legal representative who has custody of you (parents or, if applicable, one parent) can declare your withdrawal from the church. Children who have reached the age of 12 cannot declare their withdrawal against their will.
Identity card or passport or foreign ID with a confirmation of registration that is not older than six months.
You can also provide details of the place of baptism. However, this information is voluntary.
Fee: 30,00 EURPayment in advance: noFee for leaving the church
The declaration of resignation shall take effect at the end of the day on which the minutes of the declaration of resignation have been signed or the written declaration has been received by the competent authority. The obligation to pay church tax ends at the end of the month in which the declaration becomes effective.
18.01.2024
Your responsible office:
Verbandsgemeinde Cochem - Fachbereich 3 - Bürgerdienste
Address
56812 Cochem
Building access
Contact
Telephone
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Website
Opening hours
Monday-Friday 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Tuesday 14:00 - 16:00
Thursday 14:00 - 18:00
Contact person
Address
56812 Cochem
Telephone
Fax
Website
room
Responsible for:
- Cochem (Verbandsgemeinde):
- Apply for a birth certificate
- Apply for a certificate of no impediment
- Apply for a change of surname as a displaced or late resettled person, their spouse or descendant
- Apply for a death certificate for a family member
- Apply to change the child's surname by renaming or renaming back
- Applying for a civil partnership certificate
- Applying for a marriage certificate
- Certificate of Descent
- Certify birth abroad
- Change first name
- Change of surname due to the declaration on the name of spouses
- Change of surname due to the declaration on the naming of civil partners
- Church tax
- Comply with reporting obligations in hospitals, homes and similar institutions
- Declaration on the use of the name - Declaration on the use of the name of spouses without a domestic marriage or marriage entry
- Family Book
- Family name change child - by single parent
- Having a death certified abroad
- Issuance of a certificate of marriageability for German citizens with residence, or habitual abode abroad.
- Issuing a certificate of no impediment to marriage for foreign persons
- Issuing birth certificate for births in former German territories or consular and colonial registers
- Leaving the church declaration
- Marriage consummation
- Notarize death on a German seagoing vessel
- Notarizing birth on seagoing vessels
- Obligation to report in hospitals, homes and similar institutions
- Printout from the birth register
- Register marriage
- Registration of a burial
- Registration of a cremation
- Request multilingual birth certificate
- Requesting a change of surname
- Requesting a change of surname for important reasons
- Requesting a change of the child's birth name in the event of subsequent joint custody, pseudo-paternity or a declaration of connection
- resume one's birth name
- Show birth
- Show Death
- Show home birth
- Subsequent certification of a marriage contracted abroad
- Surname change child - redetermination of the birth name
Address
56812 Cochem
Telephone
Fax
Website
room
Responsible for:
- Cochem (Verbandsgemeinde):
- Apply for a birth certificate
- Apply for a certificate of no impediment
- Apply for a change of surname as a displaced or late resettled person, their spouse or descendant
- Apply for a death certificate for a family member
- Apply to change the child's surname by renaming or renaming back
- Applying for a civil partnership certificate
- Applying for a marriage certificate
- Certificate of Descent
- Certify birth abroad
- Change first name
- Change of surname due to the declaration on the name of spouses
- Change of surname due to the declaration on the naming of civil partners
- Church tax
- Comply with reporting obligations in hospitals, homes and similar institutions
- Declaration on the use of the name - Declaration on the use of the name of spouses without a domestic marriage or marriage entry
- Family Book
- Family name change child - by single parent
- Having a death certified abroad
- Issuance of a certificate of marriageability for German citizens with residence, or habitual abode abroad.
- Issuing a certificate of no impediment to marriage for foreign persons
- Issuing birth certificate for births in former German territories or consular and colonial registers
- Leaving the church declaration
- Marriage consummation
- Notarize death on a German seagoing vessel
- Notarizing birth on seagoing vessels
- Obligation to report in hospitals, homes and similar institutions
- Printout from the birth register
- Register marriage
- Registration of a burial
- Registration of a cremation
- Request multilingual birth certificate
- Requesting a change of surname
- Requesting a change of surname for important reasons
- Requesting a change of the child's birth name in the event of subsequent joint custody, pseudo-paternity or a declaration of connection
- resume one's birth name
- Show birth
- Show Death
- Show home birth
- Subsequent certification of a marriage contracted abroad
- Surname change child - redetermination of the birth name
Address
56812 Cochem
Telephone
Fax
Website
room
Responsible for:
- Cochem (Verbandsgemeinde):
- Apply for a birth certificate
- Apply for a certificate of no impediment
- Apply for a change of surname as a displaced or late resettled person, their spouse or descendant
- Apply for a death certificate for a family member
- Apply to change the child's surname by renaming or renaming back
- Applying for a civil partnership certificate
- Applying for a marriage certificate
- Certificate of Descent
- Certify birth abroad
- Change first name
- Change of surname due to the declaration on the name of spouses
- Change of surname due to the declaration on the naming of civil partners
- Church tax
- Comply with reporting obligations in hospitals, homes and similar institutions
- Declaration on the use of the name - Declaration on the use of the name of spouses without a domestic marriage or marriage entry
- Family Book
- Family name change child - by single parent
- Having a death certified abroad
- Issuance of a certificate of marriageability for German citizens with residence, or habitual abode abroad.
- Issuing a certificate of no impediment to marriage for foreign persons
- Issuing birth certificate for births in former German territories or consular and colonial registers
- Leaving the church declaration
- Marriage consummation
- Notarize death on a German seagoing vessel
- Notarizing birth on seagoing vessels
- Obligation to report in hospitals, homes and similar institutions
- Printout from the birth register
- Register marriage
- Registration of a burial
- Registration of a cremation
- Request multilingual birth certificate
- Requesting a change of surname
- Requesting a change of surname for important reasons
- Requesting a change of the child's birth name in the event of subsequent joint custody, pseudo-paternity or a declaration of connection
- resume one's birth name
- Show birth
- Show Death
- Show home birth
- Subsequent certification of a marriage contracted abroad
- Surname change child - redetermination of the birth name