Evangelical Lutheran Deanery Leutershausen
 Dean's Office |
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 Dean's office and parish office in Leutershausen |
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| Deanery district | Leutershausen |
| Church district | Church district Ansbach-Würzburg |
| Regional church | Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria |
| statistics | |
| surface | 253 km² |
| Parishes | 8th |
| Parishes | 19th |
| Parishioners | 9,999 (2008) |
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| dean | Rainer Horn |
| Address of the Dean's Office | Badgasse 2 91578 Leutershausen |
| Web presence | www.dekanat-leutershausen.de |
The Evangelical Lutheran deanery in Leutershausen is one of the 19 deaneries in the Ansbach-Würzburg parish . A Bavarian deanery corresponds to the church districts of many other regional churches. In terms of area and number of members, Leutershausen is one of the small deaneries of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria . The dean has his seat in Leutershausen and heads the deanery district in cooperation with the deanery synod and the deanery committee.
geography
The deanery is located in western Central Franconia on the upper Altmühl on the Frankenhöhe . It borders on the dean's offices in Rothenburg, Bad Windsheim, Ansbach and Feuchtwangen.
The Central Franconian section of the Way of St. James leads through the deanery from Krakow via Prague , Pilsen to Nuremberg and Rothenburg ob der Tauber and from there on via Switzerland or France to Spain. The pilgrimage chapel of St. Jakob in Häslabronn on the road between Ansbach and Rothenburg ob der Tauber has been part of the Colmberg parish since 1812.
The political communities are in the deanery:
history
After Margrave Georg the Pious introduced the Reformation in the Margraviate of Ansbach, the many parishes in his principality had to be supervised and regularly visited. Ten superintendents with the title of dean were appointed for this purpose. At that time, all 27 parishes of the margravial offices of Ansbach, Birkenfels, Colmberg and Leutershausen were combined into a new deanery based in the city of Leutershausen.
The first dean, Magister Paulus Wahrbeck, chaired the first annual synod of his subordinate pastors on November 10, 1556.
In 1810 St. Georg (Immeldorf) , the Dreieinigkeitskirche (Lichtenau) , St. Alban (Saxony near Ansbach) came to the newly founded dean's office in Windsbach .
Parishes
For Dean's office district Leutershausen include 8 parishes (Pfarrämter) which partially from several churches , 19, there are a total. Listed here with their respective churches:
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Three diaconal associations support the diaconal work in the dean's office:
- Frankenhöhe (Rothenburg-Leutershausen, seat: Schillingsfürst)
- Upper Altmühl
- St. Peter Leutershausen
literature
- Address manual for the Franconian principalities of Ansbach and Bayreuth . Publishing house of the two orphanages, Ansbach and Bayreuth 1801, p. 138-143 ( digitized version ).
- Address manual for the Rezat district of the Kingdom of Baiern . Johann Baptist Reindl, Bamberg 1814, p. 108-109 ( digitized version ).
- Address and statistical handbook for the Rezatkreis in the Kingdom of Baiern . Buchdruckerei Chancellery, Ansbach 1820, p. 213-215 ( digitized version ).
- Official handbook for the Protestant clergy of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Publishing house of the general Protestant Pfarrwittwen-Casse, Sulzbach 1821, p. 293-296 ( digitized version ).
- Eberhard Krauss: Exiles in the Evangelical Luth. Deanery Leutershausen. Nuremberg 2006, ISBN 3-929865-10-6 .
Web links
Coordinates: 49 ° 17 '56.84 " N , 10 ° 24' 26.63" O