Deanery Heidelberg-Weinheim

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Deanery Heidelberg-Weinheim
Diocese : Freiburg
Decant number: 08
Pastoral care units : 6th
Parishes : 26th
Believers: over 80,000 (as of 2015)
Dean : Alexander Czech
Deputy Dean: Klaus Rapp
Website: [1]

The Heidelberg-Weinheim deanery is one of 26 deaneries in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Freiburg . The seat is in Heidelberg .

history

prehistory

Heidelberg and Weinheim originally had independent deaneries.

Deanship reform

On January 1, 2008, with a reform of the deanery in the Archdiocese of Freiburg, the Heidelberg-Weinheim deanery was established as one of 26 deaneries. The previously independent dean's offices in Heidelberg and Weinheim were merged as part of this reform.

The dean's office together with the dean's offices in Mannheim , Wiesloch and Kraichgau form the Rhine / Neckar region .

structure

The Deanery Heidelberg-Weinheim is divided into the following six pastoral care units :

Pastoral care units associated parishes and branches
SE Hemsbach St. Laurentius (Hemsbach) with St. Maria (Sulzbach), St. Bartholomäus (Laudenbach)
SE Weinheim-Hirschberg Herz Jesu (Weinheim), St. Laurentius (Weinheim) , St. Marien (Weinheim), St. Jakobus (Hohensachsen) with the branches Christkönigskirche (Großsachsen) and St. Josef (Lützelsachsen), St. Johannes Baptist (Leutershausen) with the Branch community Herz Jesu (Oberflockenbach).
SE Ladenburg-Heddesheim St. Gallus (Ladenburg) , St. Remigius (Heddesheim)
SE Steinachtal Heiligkreuzsteinach, Schönau, Wilhelmsfeld
SE Schriesheim-Dossenheim Assumption of Mary (Schriesheim) with branch St. Michael (Altenbach), St. Pankratius (Dossenheim)
Catholic city church Heidelberg Holy Spirit (old town), St. Laurentius (Ziegelhausen), St. Laurentius (Schlierbach), St. Raphael (Neuenheim), St. Vitus (Handschuhsheim), St. Michael (Südstadt), St. Johannes (Rohrbach), St. Peter (Kirchheim), St. Paul (Boxberg), St. Bartholomäus (Wieblingen), St. Marien (Pfaffengrund), St. Albert (Bergheim), St. Bonifatius (Weststadt), St. Joseph (Eppelheim)

Demographic and socio-spatial structure

The Dean's Office Heidelberg-Weinheim has 26 parishes with over 80,000 Catholic Christians. Geographically, the deanery extends along the Baden Bergstrasse from Laudenbach in the north to Heidelberg-Kirchheim in the south.

The pastoral care unit Catholic City Church Heidelberg of the Dean's Office Heidelberg-Weinheim is the largest pastoral care unit in the Archdiocese of Freiburg with around 40,000 Catholics (in the two cities of Heidelberg and Eppelheim).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Archdiocese of Freiburg: Rhine / Neckar region . Online at www.erzbistum-freiburg.de. Retrieved May 4, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Deanery Heidelberg-Weinheim: Welcome to the website of the Deanery Heidelberg-Weinheim . Online at www.kath-dekanat-hw.de. Retrieved December 14, 2015.
  3. ↑ Catholic City Church Heidelberg: Catholic City Church Heidelberg . Online at www.stadtkirche-heidelberg.de. Retrieved December 14, 2015.