The Bremen clause (german: Bremer Klausel) is Article 141 of the
Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany
The Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany (german: Grundgesetz für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland) is the constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany.
The West German Constitution was approved in Bonn on 8 May 1949 and came in ...
.
Background
The clause states:
The sentence cited provides:
It limits the range of application of the constitutional (Basic Law) rule over
religious education, making it possible to have other types of instruction in some areas of
Germany
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. A well-known example is the "instruction in
Biblical history" in
Bremen. It is not religious education in the sense of the Basic Law, because its content is not accountable to a
religious order; therefore it is not a "
common affair" (
res mixta).
References
Religious education
German constitutional law
State law in Germany
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