List of church buildings in the Plauen deanery
The list of church buildings in the Plauen deanery contains Roman Catholic churches in the deanery in the Vogtland district in the diocese of Dresden-Meißen .
history
The last bishop of the old diocese of Meißen , Johann IX. von Haugwitz , appointed Johann Leisentrit as diocesan administrator for the remaining Catholic areas in Lusatia in 1559 . With that the old diocese of Meissen in Saxony (Mark Meissen) perished. The remnants of the former diocesan area were named the Apostolic Prefecture of Lusatia with its seat in Bautzen . In 1921 the new diocese of Meißen was founded with its seat in Bautzen, in 1979/80 the name was changed to Diocese of Dresden-Meißen and the bishopric was moved to Dresden.
List of church buildings
The list contains the Roman Catholic parish churches in the Plauen deanery and the associated branch churches or chapels. The number of Catholics in the deanery is 5630 (as of 2016).
Explanations of the status: P = parish church, F = branch church, K = chapel
| image | church | Place / location | status | Remarks |
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St. Joseph Adorf |
Adorf (location) |
P | consecrated November 9, 1902 |
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St. Walburga Bad Brambach (now a branch church of St. Joseph Adorf) |
Bad Brambach (location) |
F. | consecrated June 23, 1935, repealed / profaned on July 26, 2018 |
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St. Elisabeth Bad Elster (now a branch church of St. Joseph Adorf) |
Bad Elster (location) |
F. | consecrated May 13, 1913 |
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Theresia of the Child Jesus Markneukirchen (now a branch church of St. Joseph Adorf) |
Markneukirchen (location) |
F. | consecrated November 21, 1926 |
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Holy Cross Auerbach |
Auerbach (location) |
P | consecrated October 1914 |
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Chapel of St. Petrus Canisius Rodewisch |
Rodewisch (location) |
K | |
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Holy Falkenstein family |
Falkenstein (location) |
P | built in 1928 |
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Maria, Rosary Queen Klingenthal (now a branch church of the Falkenstein family) |
Klingenthal (location) |
F. | consecrated November 18, 1906 |
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Heart of Jesus Plauen / Vogtl. |
Plauen (location) |
P | built in 1901/02 according to plans by Julius Zeißig as a three-aisled basilica in the style of historicism |
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St. Karl Borromeo Oelsnitz / Vogtl. (now a branch church of the Heart of Jesus Plauen) |
Oelsnitz / Vogtl. (Location) |
F. | |
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Chapel St. Ulrich Weischlitz (now the chapel of the Church of the Heart of Jesus Plauen) |
Weischlitz (location) |
K | consecrated September 13, 1931 |
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Chapel of St. Georg Mühltroff (now the chapel of the Herz Jesu Church in Plauen) |
Mühltroff , OT from Pausa-Mühltroff (location) |
K | Mühltroff Castle Chapel |
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Assumption of Mary Reichenbach |
Reichenbach (location) |
P | Parish of St. Mary since 1904, church consecrated on August 13, 1927 |
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St. Heinrich Lengenfeld (now a branch church of the Assumption of Mary Reichenbach) |
Lengenfeld (location) |
F. | consecrated December 20, 1992 |
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St. Joseph Netzschkau (now a branch church of the Assumption of Mary Reichenbach) |
Netzschkau (location) |
F. | consecrated June 15, 1991 |
Web links
- Overview of the Dean's Office on the homepage of the Diocese of Dresden-Meißen (accessed December 7, 2018)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistics 2016 Diocese of Dresden-Meißen (accessed December 11, 2018)
Map with all coordinates: