Deanery Mosbach-Buchen

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Deanery Mosbach-Buchen
Diocese : Freiburg
Decant number: 15th
Pastoral care units : 10
Parishes : 54
Believers: approx. 83,000
(as of November 19, 2009)
Dean : Johannes Balbach
Deputy Dean: currently vacant
Website: [1]

The Mosbach-Buchen deanery is a deanery in the diocese of Freiburg . Geographically, the area of ​​the Mosbach-Buchen deanery is an extensive rural deanery. The deanery includes the entire Neckar-Odenwald district , the city of Eberbach in the Rhein-Neckar district and the Neudenau pastoral care unit in the Heilbronn district .

history

On January 1, 2008, with a reform of the deanery in the Archdiocese of Freiburg, the Mosbach-Buchen deanery was formed as one of 26 deaneries. The seat of the deanery is Buchen . The Deanery Mosbach-Buchen and the Deanery Tauberbischofsheim form the Odenwald-Tauber region .

From the original 13 pastoral care units in the Mosbach-Buchen dean's office, their number was reduced to ten by merging by January 1, 2015:

  • The parishes Billigheim-Schefflenz and Neudenau merged to form the pastoral care unit Billigheim-Neudenau-Schefflenz.
  • The parishes of Elz-Neckar and Mosbach merged to form the pastoral care unit Mosbach-Elz-Neckar.
  • The parishes of Hardheim and Höpfingen merged to form the pastoral care unit Hardheim-Höpfingen in the Madonnenland.

structure

The Mosbach-Buchen dean's office is divided into the following ten pastoral care units :

Pastoral care units associated parishes and branches
SE Adelsheim - Osterburken - Seckach St. Kilian (Osterburken) , St. Gangolf (Schlierstadt) , St. Marien (Adelsheim) with Jakobskirche (Adelsheim) , St. Josef (Sennfeld), St. Karl Borromäus (Rosenberg), St. Sebastian (Seckach), St. Bernhard (Seckach blade)
SE Aglasterhausen - Neunkirchen St. Bartholomäus (Neunkirchen), St. Matthäus (Aglasterhausen)
SE cheap home - Neudenau - Schefflenz St. Michael (Billigheim) , St. George (Allfeld) with St. Anne's Chapel (Allfeld) , St. Martin (Billigheim-Sulzbach), St. Nicholas (Waldmühlbach) , St. Lawrence (Neudenau), St. Kilian (Herbolzheim), St. Kilian (Schefflenz)
SE booking St. Oswald (Buchen), St. Bartholomäus (Götzingen), St. Magnus (Hainstadt), St. Johannes and Paulus (Hettigenbeuern), St. Peter and Paul (Hettingen), St. Johannes Baptist (Hollerbach), St. Michael (Waldhausen)
SE Mosbach - Elz - Neckar St. Dionysius (Haßmersheim), St. Cäcilia (Mosbach) with branch Stiftskirche St. Juliana (Mosbach) , St. Josef (Mosbach), St. Paulus (Lohrbach), St. Maria Neckarelz-Diedesheim, Temple House St. Maria (Neckarelz) , St. Laurenzius (Obrigheim) with branches St. Maria (Asbach) and Christ Church (Mörtelstein)
SE Elztal - Limbach - Fahrenbach St. Valentin (Limbach), St. Cross (Limbach-Wagenschwend), St. Maria (Elztal-Dallau), St. Georg (Rittersbach) , St. Jakobus (Fahrenbach)
SE Hardheim - Höpfingen in the Madonnenland St. Alban (Hardheim), St. Sebastian and Vitus (Bretzingen), St. Wendelin (Erfeld), St. Burkard (gerichtstetten), St. Andres (Schweinberg), St. Egidius (Höpfingen) , St. Justinus (Waldstetten)
SE Mudau St. Pankratius (Mudau) with the branch St. Josef (Donebach), St. Peter and Paul (Scheindental), St. Wolfgang (Mudau-Schlossau), St. Martin (Steinbach) with St. Veit and St. Martin (Steinbach )
SE Neckartal -Hoher Odenwald Edith Stein St. Johannes Nepomuk (Eberbach), St. Josef (Eberbach), St. Afra (Neckargerach), St. Maria (Waldbrunn)
SE Walldürn Pilgrimage basilica St. Georg (Walldürn) , St. Valentin (Altheim), St. Wendelin (glass furnace), St. Sebastian (Rippberg)

Demographic and socio-spatial structure

The Deanery Mosbach-Buchen is located in the northernmost region of the Archdiocese of Freiburg. Together with the deanery Tauberbischofsheim , it forms the Odenwald-Tauber region . The Odenwald-Tauber diocesan office (name since October 1, 2015; previously called regional office ) is located in Hainstadt , a district of Buchen .

In terms of area, the Mosbach-Buchen dean's office with 1237.9 km² is the largest dean's office in the archdiocese with around 83,000 Catholics, that is 53% of the total population of the corresponding area (as of November 10, 2009).

Ecumenical cooperation

The borders of the Catholic deanery Mosbach-Buchen overlap with four Protestant deaneries. There are common areas of work and contacts with the Protestant deanery of the Mosbach church district and the Protestant deanery of the Adelsheim-Boxberg church district . In addition, cooperation in hospice work, mourning pastoral care, women's work and emergency pastoral care are sought. Furthermore, the Ecumenical Center in Mosbach-Neckarelz is of particular importance in ecumenical cooperation.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Archdiocese of Freiburg: Region Odenwald / Tauber . Online at www.erzbistum-freiburg.de. Retrieved May 4, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b c Deanery Mosbach-Buchen: Pastoral care units of the Deanery Mosbach-Buchen . Online at www.kath-dekanat-mosbachbuchen.de. Retrieved June 22, 2015.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Deanery Mosbach-Buchen: Concept of the Catholic Dean's Office Mosbach-Buchen . (PDF, 55.5 kB). Resolution of November 19, 2009. Online at www.kath-dekanat-mosbachbuchen.de. Retrieved June 22, 2015.
  4. ↑ a b c d Fränkische Nachrichten: Press conference of the Catholic regional office: restructuring of the pastoral care units until 2015 / regional day should illuminate community teams / changes in structures and minds . April 11, 2014. Online at www.fnweb.de. Retrieved June 16, 2016.
  5. ↑ St. Maria - Neckarelz / Diedesheim. Retrieved February 6, 2020 .