Deanery Geldersheim

The dean's office in Geldersheim is a former dean's office of the Roman Catholic diocese of Würzburg . The ecclesiastical district existed between 1811 and 1905.

history

In its early days, the diocese consisted of a few parishes , to which a large number of branch villages were assigned. These original parishes lost their importance during the Middle Ages , because more and more of the former branches became their own parishes. This made a more complicated organization of the diocese necessary. Ten parishes were merged into so-called deaneries. In the 12th century, so-called archdeaconates were established , who administered one or more deanery districts.

In the Middle Ages, Geldersheim was also of church importance as a small royal palace, but was later assigned to the Schweinfurt dean's office .

With the secularization initiated by Napoleon in 1803, the Würzburg monastery was dissolved as a spiritual territory and established exclusively as a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church. In 1811, therefore, the administrative units of the diocese were redistributed. Geldersheim became the seat of the deanery and thus the ecclesiastical center of the west of Schweinfurt and the upper Wern valley . The Catholic parish in Schweinfurt was also part of the Geldersheim dean's office.

Parishes and their branches

• Bergrheinfeld
• Ebenhausen with Hain and Poppenhausen
• Egenhausen
• Eltingshausen
• Eßleben with vineyards
• Ettleben
• Euerbach with Obbach
• Geldersheim
• Hergolshausen with Garstadt
• Kronungen with Oberwerrn
• Kützberg
• Maibach with Hambach and Dittelbrunn
• Sacrificial tree
• Pfersdorf with Oerlenbach and Holzhausen
• Rannungen with Pfändhausen and Rottershausen
• Schleerieth with Eckartshausen , Rundelshausen and Vasbühl
• Schnackenwerth
• Schweinfurt with Sennfeld and Zell
• Stettbach
• Waigolshausen
• Werneck with the so-called district insane asylum (Kuratie)
• Zeuzleleben

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• Real schematic of the Diocese of Würzburg, 1877.