Deanery Mergentheim
| Deanery Mergentheim | |
|---|---|
| Diocese : | Rottenburg-Stuttgart |
| Pastoral care units: | 4th |
| Municipalities: | 19th |
| Believers: | 18,000 (as of 2015) |
| Dean: | Ulrich Skobowsky |
| Deputy Dean: | Bogdan Stolarczyk |
| Website: | Deanery Mergentheim |
The Mergentheim deanery is one of 25 deaneries in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart and consists of 19 parishes, four pastoral care units and around 18,000 Catholics. The Dean's office is located in Bad Mergentheim in the Main-Tauber district . Its area is congruent with the Protestant church district Weikersheim .
history
The Mergentheim deanery was mentioned in the earliest surviving list of deaneries in the middle of the 14th century. It included parishes to the left and right of the upper Tauber. Until the early 19th century, the old dean's office Mergentheim belonged to the diocese of Würzburg . The Reformation changed the structure of the deanery: around two thirds of the parishes became Protestant through their local authorities. In 1608, the Mergentheim deanery comprised only eleven parishes, but was able to continue to exist thanks to the Teutonic Order , which remained Catholic .
In the course of the Counter Reformation , additional parishes were founded. The incorporation of eight parishes, which previously belonged to the diocese of Mainz and fell to Würzburg in 1656, brought further growth. As a result, the Mergentheim deanery grew again to 27 parishes by 1790.
The Napoleonic era brought another turning point when the Würzburg Monastery was abandoned (1803) and the area of the Teutonic Order in the Confederation of the Rhine was secularized (1809). Most of the parishes of the Mergentheim deanery belonged to these two spiritual territories. The deanery was subsequently divided between three states: 14 parishes fell to the Grand Duchy of Baden, six parishes went to Bavaria. Mergentheim itself and six other parishes came to the Kingdom of Württemberg, where a greatly reduced deanship Mergentheim was formed. As early as 1811, two parishes from the old Krautheim deanery and one parish from the Ochsenfurt deanery were added.
Since the dean's office in Mergentheim belonged to the Rottenburg diocese, which was founded in 1821, the number of parishes has remained stable for a long time. There were also isolated new parishes. A final increase was triggered by the arrival of numerous expellees after the Second World War : the parishes of Gerabonn (1958), Schrozberg (1964), Weikersheim (1965) and Creglingen (1966) were founded. In 1965 the formation of the Crailsheim deanery led to the transfer of the parishes of Bartenstein, Gerabronn and Schrozberg. The Mergentheim deanery was not affected by the various mergers of the deanery since 2006, in which the districts were often adapted to the existing districts. In this way, the dean's office has largely been able to preserve the spatial layout that it had received since the beginning of the 19th century.
structure
The Mergentheim dean's office is divided into the following four pastoral care units :
Demographic and socio-spatial structure
The Mergentheim deanery is the northernmost deanery of the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese. With around 18,000 Catholics, who are divided into 19 parishes and four pastoral care units, it is one of the smaller deaneries in the diocese. The deanery includes part of the Main-Tauber district , the other part of which belongs to the deanery Tauberbischofsheim of the Archdiocese of Freiburg . Laibach (a district of Dörzbach in the Hohenlohe district ) is the only parish of the deanery outside the Main-Tauber district. The Mergentheim dean's office is at its external borders with the Archdiocese of Freiburg, the Diocese of Würzburg and the Archdiocese of Bamberg . The neighboring deaneries within the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart are Hohenlohe and Schwäbisch Hall .
The area around the former Teutonic Order and district town Bad Mergentheim is predominantly Catholic ( pastoral care units 1a, 1b and 2 ). In the area in the east of the deanery ( pastoral care unit 3 ), Protestant Christians predominate.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Mergentheim deanery: Parishes of the Mergentheim deanery . Online at www.kathdekanat-mgh.de. Retrieved December 12, 2015.
- ↑ a b c d e f Deanery Mergentheim: Deanery Mergentheim, History of the Dean's Office . Online at www.kathdekanat-mgh.de. Retrieved December 12, 2015.
- ^ Deanery Mergentheim: Pastoral care units of the Deanery Mergentheim . Online at www.kathdekanat-mgh.de. Retrieved December 12, 2015.
- ↑ Deanery Mergentheim: Homepage ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Online at www.kathdekanat-mgh.de. Retrieved December 12, 2015.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 29 ' N , 9 ° 46' E