The Evangelical Church Conference (German: Deutscher Evangelischer Kirchentag) was a convention of delegates from the different Protestant denominations in Germany and Austria.
The conference originated in 1848, when the general desire for political unity made itself felt in the ecclesiastical sphere as well.
A preliminary meeting was held at Sandhof near Frankfurt in June of that year, and on September 21 some five hundred delegates representing the Lutheran, the Reformed, the United Protestant regional and state churches and the Moravian church assembled at Wittenberg.
[1] The movement exercised considerable influence during the middle of the 19th century, convening fifteen times until 1871.
Though no Kirchentag, in such a form, has been convened since then, its place has been taken by the Kongress für innere Mission, which held annual meetings in different towns.