Evangelical Lutheran Dean's Office Augsburg

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Evangelical Lutheran
Dean's Office

St. Anna in Augsburg
organization
Deanery district augsburg
Church district augsburg
Regional church Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria
statistics
Parishes 35
Parishioners 90,000
management
dean Michael Thoma (City)
Doris Sperber-Hartmann (South / East Region)
Frank Kreiselmeier (North / West Region)
Address of the Dean's Office Fuggerstrasse 8
86150 Augsburg
Web presence www.augsburg-evangelisch.de

The Evangelical Lutheran Deanery Augsburg is one of the seven deanery districts of the Augsburg church district .

organization

The deanery district is divided into three regions. The Central Region comprises the majority of the municipalities in the city of Augsburg , the South / East and North / West regions surround the city and include municipalities in the Augsburg district and the Aichach-Friedberg district . In the north, the deanery extends into the district of Dillingen an der Donau .

The management of the deanery district is the responsibility of a deanery college in cooperation with elected bodies, the deanery sysnode and the deanery committee. Within the Dean's College, City Dean Michael Thoma has the chair and responsibility for the Central Region; he is in personal union also pastor of St. Anna in Augsburg. As dean, Frank Kreiselmeier is responsible for the north / west region and pastor in Gersthofen . Doris Sperber-Hartmann heads the South / East region as dean and is a pastor in Königsbrunn .

The Evangelical Lutheran Parish Office in Augsburg is the administrative office. It performs tasks in the areas of finance, personnel, construction and real estate as well as day-care center administration for the dean's office and the parishes.

history

Parishes and parishes

Only the communities in the urban area of ​​the former imperial city of Augsburg emerged directly from the Reformation.

Imperial city of Augsburg

The history of the Reformation in Augsburg is very complex and multi-layered. In 1530 the city declared itself in Protestant at the Augsburg Reichstag . On January 17, 1537, an evangelical church order was introduced. Between 1517 and 1555, however, the citizens did not agree on which creed they should accept. On the one hand, one vacillated between Old Believers and Protestants. Internally evangelicals were more inclined to the ideas of Zwingli's Swiss Reformation than to Luther's ideas . The Augsburg Interim brought a setback in 1548 insofar as the Protestants were only allowed the lay chalice and the priestly marriage. In addition, biconfessionalism was established for Augsburg. The Augsburg Religious Peace of 1555 finally secured the continuation of Protestant life, even if only that of the Lutheran Confession. In the possession of the Protestant communities, first came the churches of the Protestant-minded Orders, 1524 St. Anna of the Carmelites and the church to the barefoot friars of the Franciscan . Later the prayer houses were handed over to the Evangelicals in 1526 by Heilig Kreuz and St. Georg and in 1529 by St. Ulrich . From January 17, 1537, only Protestant services were held in the city. Another turning point brought the end of the Schmalkaldic War . After that, the cathedral was returned to the Catholics on August 1, 1547. On August 2, 1548 a contract was signed by which the Evangelicals were assigned the following churches: St. Anna , St. Jakob , Zu den Barfüßern , the hospital church of the Holy Spirit and the prayer houses of Heilig Kreuz , St. Georg and St. Ulrich . The remaining churches went back into Catholic hands, even if 90% of the residents at that time professed to be Protestants. In 1629, during the Counter Reformation, the preaching house near St. George was torn down and not rebuilt afterwards.

Dean's office

The deanery was established on December 7th, 1810 with the Augsburg parishes of St. Anna, Zu den Barfüßern, St. Jakob, Heilig Kreuz and St. Ulrich.

Parishes

literature

  • ... against vice and sin - Augsburg's path to the Reformation , House of Bavarian History, Augsburg, 1997.
  • Historical Atlas of Bavaria Ecclesiastical organization, the Protestant Church, Komm. Für Bayer. Regional history, Munich 1960.
  • Historical Atlas of Bavaria Swabia I Issue 10: City of Augsburg, Komm. Für Bayer. Regional history, Munich 1975.

Web links

Commons : Dekanat Augsburg  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Evangelical Lutheran Dean District Augsburg | Deanery Augsburg. Retrieved June 16, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Augsburger Dekanekollegium | Deanery Augsburg. Retrieved June 16, 2020 .
  3. ^ Area of ​​the Evangelical Lutheran Dean's District Augsburg | Deanery Augsburg. Retrieved June 16, 2020 .
  4. ↑ The Dekanas District | Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria. Retrieved June 16, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Parish Office | Deanery Augsburg. Retrieved June 16, 2020 .