Deanery Kinzigtal
Deanery Kinzigtal | ||
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Basic data | ||
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Political situation | Main-Kinzig district | |
Ecclesiastical province | Church province of Paderborn | |
diocese | Diocese of Fulda | |
dean | Markus Günther (Gelnhausen) | |
Parish communities | 6 pastoral associations (2019) | |
Parishes | 27 (2019) | |
Catholics | 51,310 (2019) | |
rite | Roman rite | |
Liturgical language | German | |
Website | dekanat-kinzigtal.de |
The Kinzigtal deanery is one of ten deaneries in the Roman Catholic diocese of Fulda . It includes the former districts of Gelnhausen and Schlüchtern with the central and eastern Kinzig valley as well as the Hessian Spessart and the foothills of the Vogelsberg . It borders on the Neuhof-Großenlüder dean's office in the east, the Würzburg diocese in the south, the Hanau dean's office in the west and the Mainz diocese in the north . Markus Günther, pastor of St. Peter, Gelnhausen is dean.
history
With the reform of the deanery on April 1, 2007, the Kinzigtal deanery was re-established as one of ten deaneries in the Fulda diocese. It emerged from the previous deaneries in Gelnhausen, Bad Orb and Salmünster.
structure
The Kinzigtal deanery is divided into the following six pastoral associations :
Pastoral associations | associated parishes and curatia with branches |
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St. Cross-Salmünster-Kinziggrund |
St. Peter and Paul (Salmünster) with the branches St. Laurentius (Bad Soden), Hl. Kreuz (Alsberg) and Immaculate Conception (Ahl); Holy Trinity (Steinau an der Straße) with the parish church St. Paulus (Steinau) and the branches Mariae Himmelfahrt (Ulmbach), Hl. Dreifaltigkeit, St. Anna and St. Wendelin (Uerzell) as well as the chapel Mother of God and 14 Holy Helpers ( Klesberg); St. Franziskus (Romsthal) with the branches St. Elisabeth (Katholisch-Willenroth) and Immaculate Conception (Marborn) |
St. Jakobus Vogelsberg-Spessart | Mariae Visitation (Birstein); St. Peter and Paul (Biebergemünd); Mariae Birth (Biebergemünd) with the Burgbergkapelle St. Mauritius; St. Johannes Nepomuk (Biebergemünd) ; Mariae Himmelfahrt (Wächtersbach) with the branch Herz Jesu (Schlierbach) |
St. Martin in the Spessart | St. Peter (Mernes); Sorrowful Mother of God (Aufenau) with the St. Johannes Evangelist branch (Neudorf); St. Martin (Bad Orb) with the branches St. Michael (Bad Orb) and St. Jakobus (Lettgenbrunn) ; St. Martin (Oberndorf) with the branches Herz Jesu (Pfaffenhausen) and Precious Blood (Burgjoss) |
St. Maximilian Kolbe Schlüchtern-Sinntal | Assumption of Mary (Mottgers) with the St. Josef branch (Altengronau); St. James (Herolz); Mariae Himmelfahrt (Sannerz) with the branches St. Michael (Sterbfritz) and St. Wigbert (Weiperz); St. Bonifatius (Schlüchtern); St. Bonifatius (Züntersbach) |
St. Peter and Paul Freigericht-Hasselroth | St. Anna (Somborn) with the St. Vincenz (Somborn) chapel; St. Bartholomäus (Bernbach) with the Fatima chapel “Maria Frieden” (Bernbach); St. Markus (Altenmittlau); St. Michael (Horbach); St. Wendelin (Neuses); Maria, Hilfe der Christisten (Neuenhaßlau) with the branch St. Joseph der Arbeiter (Niedermittlau) |
St. Raphael Kinzigtal |
St. Peter (Gelnhausen) ; St. Wendelin (Höchst); St. Johannes Apostel (Altenhaßlau); Maria Queen (Meerholz-Hailer) with the branch Christkönig (Gründau-Rothenbergen) |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schematism of the Diocese of Fulda
- ^ Diocese of Fulda: The diocese in numbers . December 31, 2018. Online at www.bistum-fulda.de. Retrieved September 25, 2019.
- ↑ a b Diocese of Fulda: Digital Diocese Map (PDF; 12.4 MB). Online at www.bistum-fulda.de. Retrieved September 25, 2019.
- ^ Diocese of Fulda: staff of the dean's office in the online schematic of the Diocese of Fulda at imbfd.it-online.de. Retrieved September 25, 2019.
- ^ Diocese of Fulda: Pastoral associations and parishes of the Kinzigtal deanery . Online at www.bistum-fulda.de. Retrieved September 25, 2019.