Deanery Lohr (Diocese of Würzburg)

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Deanery Lohr
Basic data
Political situation Main-Spessart district
Ecclesiastical province Church province Bamberg
diocese Diocese of Würzburg
Diocesan bishop Franz Jung
dean Hermann Becker
Alexander Eckert, deputy
Parish communities 9 (2014)
Parishes 27
11 Board of Trustees (2014)
Catholics 44,114 (November 1, 2010)
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language German
Dean's offices in the diocese
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The Lohr deanery is one of 20 deaneries in the Roman Catholic diocese of Würzburg .

In 1821 the Lohr deanery consisted of the parishes of Ernstkirchen , Esselbach , Frammersbach , Heimbuchenthal , Keilberg, Krombach , Lohr, Oberbessenbach, Rechtenbach (officially parish from 1829), Rothenbuch , Sailauf , Weibersbrunn, Wiesthal and Wintersbach. In 1827 Ernstkirchen and Krombach were given to the dean's office in Alzenau , and in 1845, Esselbach to the dean's office in Rothenfels.

The Lohr dean's office today includes the old districts of Lohr am Main and Marktheidenfeld , today in the district of Main-Spessart . It borders in the east on the Deanery Karlstadt , in the southeast on the Deanery Würzburg on the left of the Main , in the southwest on the Archbishopric Freiburg , in the west / southwest on the Deanery Miltenberg , in the west on the Deanery Aschaffenburg-Ost and in the north on the Diocese of Fulda .

Twenty-seven parishes and eleven curatia have formed nine parish communities by 2010. The parish of St. Andreas Wiesthal with the branch Herz-Jesu Krommenthal and the curate of St. Josef the Bridegroom Neuhütten left the Hochspessart parish community in the Aschaffenburg-Ost deanery on March 14, 2012 and are now temporarily independent in the Lohr deanery.

The dean is Hermann Becker, the coordinating pastor of the parish community of St. Laurentius am Spessart , Marktheidenfeld. His deputy Alexander Eckert, coordinating pastor of the parish community Heilig Geist im Spessartgrund , Esselbach.

structure

The parishes are sorted according to parish communities, all branches , charities and branches belonging to a parish are listed according to the respective parish, followed by chapels, monasteries and pilgrimage churches. The individual parishes are also listed at the end.

Parish communities

Parish community Erlenbach - Triefenstein (Triefenstein)

  • St. Burkard (Homburg am Main)

  • St. James the Elder

  • St. George

Parish community St. Laurentius in Spessart (Marktheidenfeld)

  • St. Laurence

  • Assumption Day

  • St. Georg, Rothenfels Castle

Parish community Maria - Patroness of Franconia (Urspringen)

  • St. Valentine

  • St. Cyriac

Parish community St. Sebastian on the Franconian Platte (Steinfeld)

  • Visitation of the Virgin Mary

Parish community St. Martin - Neuendorf - Ruppertshütten (Neuendorf)

Parish community of 12 apostles at the gate to Spessart (Lohr am Main)

  • St. Michael

  • St. Peter and Paul

  • St. Michael and St. Gertraud

  • St. John the Baptist

  • St. James the Elder

  • Maria Visitation and St. Sebastian

  • St. Josef, Steinbach

  • St. Boniface

Parish Community Effata (Frammersbach)

  • St. Bartholomew

  • St. Thecla

Parish community Haseltal - Himmelreich (Kreuzwertheim)

Parish community of the Holy Spirit in the Spessartgrund (Esselbach)

  • St. Margareta

particularities

Pastoral care offices of the Lohr deanery in parish communities of other deaneries

  • St. Andrew

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Diocese of Würzburg - deaneries
  2. ^ Historical Atlas of Bavaria , Franconia, Volume 34: Lohr am Main. The former district, by Günter Christ, Commission for Bavarian State History, 2003, p. 406 ff. Search Google Books
  3. ↑ Diocese of Würzburg - Parish communities and individual parishes ( Memento of the original from November 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pfarreisengemeinschaft.bistum-wuerzburg.de
  4. ↑ Schematism of the Diocese of Würzburg 2002, 2010