While the replacement of the Christianity with a new ‘Germanic’ religion was one of the goals of the national socialists, they borrowed some elements of Christianity in the Ordensburg Vogelsang in West Germany.

The Ordensburg Vogelsang was part of the never completed project of four NS-Ordenburgen (castles of the national socialist order) where the future leaders of the Third Reich were supposed to be trained for their tasks as administrators of the German Reich. The members were between 23 and 28 years old and participated voluntarily in the program, which was only reserved for those young men that already proved to be loyal to the NSDAP. All participants had to prove that they were Arians and they also had to renounce their Christianity.

The location at Vogelsang was started from scratch and specifically designed by the instructions of Robert Ley, Head of the German Labour Front and Reichsorganisationsleiter. For ceremonial purposes, a large hall with a tower was built. There, the participants of the program and members of the order were supposed to live their non-Christian spiritual life. However, several elements of Christian churches were copied and only changed to fit the national socialist ideology.

The hall itself was built like a church: It consisted of one larger hall with several rows of chairs that were separated by an aisle in the middle, and a smaller room on the opposite side to the entrance of the larger room. Both rooms were connected by an arch. On the visible Wall of the smaller room was an altar with a large statue of the ‘Neue Mensch’ (new man), which was a bodily well build man doing a Nazi salute. Underneath the statue were four letters HIER, which means here in German.

Next to the statue were ten names. Five on each side. These were the names of ten participants of the attempted 1923 Beer Hall Putsch who died during the attempted coup. Those names were read out during meetings of the order, and the members responded with screaming "hier" after each name.

When considering the hall's layout, the small room with the statue is comparable to an altar in church, the statue has a similar place, then a crucifix with Jesus, and the chairs all look in direction to the "altar".