Visiting the local church is said to be a powerful case of participatory learning. Moreover, it is said to raise the situational interest of the students. An empirical study on the effects of such field trips, however, is still missing. This volume reports the theoretical background, the empirical design and the results of a project about the effects of field trips to the local church in compulsory Catholic religious education in German primary schools. It draws a comprehensive picture of such effects by identifying the benefits of scholastic field trips to the local church as well as the obstacles of this didactic Set-up. The volume closes with a description of didactic principles and methods which help to improve scholastic field trips to the local church.