Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Schleswig-Holstein

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The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Schleswig-Holstein was founded in 1867 Lutheran Church in the Kingdom of Prussia and the German Empire (1871-1945) and then the Federal Republic of Germany (since 1949). It was the church of the former Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein , most recently according to the territorial status of 1936.

In 1948 the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Schleswig-Holstein was a founding member of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD). It also belonged to the United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany (VELKD).

On January 1, 1977, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Schleswig-Holstein united with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lübeck , the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hamburg state of, Evangelical Lutheran Church Eutin and the church district Harburg the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover to North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church .

history

The Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Schleswig-Holstein came into being with the introduction of the Lutheran denomination in the territories belonging to the Danish king , including Schleswig and Holstein . As a result of the Flensburg disputation in 1529, Lutheran teaching became generally known in Schleswig-Holstein. During the disputation, it was also decided to introduce the Reformation in Denmark and the duchies. With the accession to the throne in 1534, Christian III began. to implement this decision. The church order for Denmark, in which seven clergy from the Duchy of Schleswig participated, was passed in 1537. It was originally supposed to be introduced in Schleswig and Holstein as well, but this was prevented due to the resistance of the early church there. Only after the death of the last Catholic bishop of Schleswig Gottschalk von Ahlefeldt was the Lutheran church order for Schleswig and Holstein passed in Rendsburg on March 9, 1542 , which established the Schleswig-Holstein regional church.

Seal of the consistory in Kiel

Schleswig and Holstein were under Danish administration until the 19th century . In 1867 both duchies fell to Prussia. This started in 1867 for the new province of Schleswig-Holstein in Kiel a country consistory . The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Province of Schleswig-Holstein was formally founded. A secular president presided over the consistory. Head of the church, however, was the respective King of Prussia as summus episcopus . Spiritual leaders of the church were the two general superintendents, later bishops, of Schleswig (seat in Schleswig) and Holstein (seat in Kiel), who presided over the two eponymous districts of the church.

After the First World War and the elimination of the state church regiment, the state church of Schleswig-Holstein received a new constitution. The highest organ of the regional church was the regional synod, which met about once a year in Rendsburg. It had a president as chairperson and elected the church leadership and the two bishops. The consistory in Kiel became the regional church office and was the administrative authority of the regional church. Like the previous consistory, it was headed by a president.

Territory of the regional church

When it was formed, the regional church comprised the entire area of ​​the two Schleswig and Holstein monasteries, which were formed in 1854 and were each led by a bishop. While Bishop Wilhelm Heinrich Koopmann von Holstein was still in office, the Schleswig Bishop Ulrich Sechmann Boesen was deposed by the Prussian occupying power. In Schleswig he was followed by a general superintendent, Koopmann's successor then also carried the title of general superintendent (abbreviated: Gen. Supt.).

The government and estates of the German federal state Duchy of Lauenburg had decided to give up statehood and therefore joined their national territory on July 1, 1876, to the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein, where it forms its own district (e). In this duchy there was an independent Lutheran church since 1531 (church ordinance of 1585), headed from 1854–1885 by Superintendent Albert Robert Brömel , with a consistory in the Lauenburg capital Ratzeburg . In 1877 it was incorporated into the Schleswig-Holstein regional church as a superintendent. However, the respective superintendent continued to exercise episcopal rights in his area. This position was emphasized with the entry into force of the constitution from September 30, 1922 to November 1, 1924 by renaming the office of superintendent in "Landessuperintendent für Lauenburg".

In 1920 the Lutheran congregations in North Schleswig were spun off from the regional church and partly added to the Lutheran Ripen Abbey and partly to the newly founded Hadersleben Abbey . Some parishes form the Lutheran Free Church of Nordschleswigsche Gemeinde . The Lutheran congregations in the formerly Free Hanseatic City of Lübeck, in the former Hamburg areas of Geesthacht and Großhansdorf and the formerly Oldenburg "Landesteil Lübeck" (formerly the Principality or Principality of Lübeck), which in 1937 - through the Greater Hamburg Law - simultaneously in the province Schleswig-Holstein were incorporated, did not belong to the regional church.

Accordingly, the Lutheran parishes in the Holstein areas, which fell to Greater Hamburg in 1937, remained members of the regional church in Altona and Wandsbek . The Mecklenburg Lutheran congregations, which came to Schleswig-Holstein in November 1945 through the Barber-Lyaschtschenko Agreement , were initially only looked after in trust by the regional church and later their part due to the increasing isolation of the east.

President of the State Consistory or State Church Office in Kiel

Superintendent General and Bishops of Schleswig

Superintendent General and Bishops of Holstein

With the merger in 1977, the district of Holstein of the previous Schleswig-Holstein regional church was rewritten. It was expanded to include the Lauenburg district, the provosts of the previous Evangelical Church in Eutin and the Evangelical Church in Lübeck, but had to give up its southern areas to the Hamburg district. Its new name was from 1977 to 2008 "Sprengel Holstein-Lübeck". In 1979 the superintendent of Lauenburg was not occupied again.

Superintendents and state superintendents of the district of Lauenburg

  • 1854–1885: Albert Robert Brömel , after the incorporation of the Lauenburg regional church into that of Schleswig-Holstein in 1877, he continued to head the Lauenburg district as superintendent with episcopal rights
  • 1885–1887: vacancy
  • 1887–1911: Franz Jürgen Soltau , Superintendent
  • 1911–1913: Theodor Valentiner , Superintendent
  • 1914–1944: Johannes Lange , superintendent, from 1924 regional superintendent
  • 1944–1959: Hans Matthießen (1895–1975), state superintendent
  • 1959–1969: Ernst Fischer (1903–1983), state superintendent
  • 1970–1979: Joachim Heubach , state superintendent

Provost for South Holstein

As a reaction to the rapid growth of the population in the Hamburg area after the Second World War, the Provosty of South Holstein was created in 1962 as a separate district with episcopal rights . It was abolished in 1977 in the course of the formation of the North Elbe Church, and its provosts / church districts were assigned to the new district of Hamburg.

  • 1962–1968 Karl Hasselmann , Provost (commissioned until 1970)
  • 1970–1977 Adolf Ruppelt , provost, charged with performing his duties as provost

Hymn books

Individual evidence

  1. Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History (ed.): Hospital and Monastery to the Holy Spirit . Flensburg 1995, page 46
  2. ^ Andreas Oeding, Broder Schwensen, Michael Sturm: Flexikon. 725 aha experiences from Flensburg! , Flensburg 2009, article: Lutherpark
  3. Flensburger Tageblatt : Church history: The Flensburg dispute over the Last Supper , from: September 26, 2017; accessed on: January 20, 2018
  4. Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History (ed.): Hospital and Monastery to the Holy Spirit . Flensburg 1995, page 46
  5. a b Wichmann von Meding, Abrogated Faith: Church history of the Duchy of Lower Saxony in today's federal state Schleswig-Holstein (Duchy of Lauenburg) , Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2009, pp. 262seq. ISBN 978-3-631-59779-8
  6. ^ Kurt Meier: The evangelical church fight. Complete presentation in three volumes , Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1976–1984. Volume 1: The struggle for the "Reichskirche" , 1976, p. 360.
  7. Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany (ed.): The constitution of 1922 as the basis for the later church leadership , in: Landeskirchliches Archiv, 20.01 ( online ).