Evangelical Lutheran Dean's Office Castell

Evangelical Lutheran ; Dean's Office
	; Deanery Church of St. John in Castell
organization
Deanery district	Castell
Church district	Ansbach-Würzburg
Regional church	Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria
statistics
Parishes	16
Parishioners	10,000
management
dean	Günther Klöss-Schuster
Address of the Dean's Office	Kirchplatz 3 ; 97355 Castell
Web presence	www.dekanat-castell.de

The Evangelical Lutheran Deanery of Castell is one of the 19 deaneries of the Ansbach-Würzburg parish . The acting dean is Günther Klöss-Schuster.

history

The parishes of the deanery are located in the historical area of the former county of Castell of the 13th – 14th centuries. Century. At that time the county extended to the Schweinfurt area in the north. From 1435 to 1457 the county's territorial decline began . Through the contracts of 24 October and 28 November, 1457 was Count Wilhelm II. Be allodium the Bishopric of Würzburg for an annuity of 500 guilders for fief to. The imperial estate of the counts was not affected by the fief. In 1545, Luther's teaching was introduced into the county . The parishes of Burghaslach (now the deanery Markt Einersheim ), Castell, Eichfeld, Gerbrunn, Obereisenheim (now the deanery Schweinfurt ) and Rüdenhausen belonged to the county . Wiesenbronn was a condominium from Ansbach , Castell and Würzburg and became Protestant together with Ansbach in 1528. Due to the earlier dominance of Würzburg in the central and northern deanery area, these areas are predominantly Catholic with Protestant islands.

The ruling lords of the county of Castell were summi episcopi in their parts of the country; In other words, the county of Castell formed its own regional church. The ius circa sacra was first perceived through consistories . During the time of the Grand Duchy of Würzburg , a Castell inspection was established on September 24, 1810, which was continued as the Rüdenhausen Bavarian inspection from June 19, 1814 . In 1967 the deanery was moved to Castell .

Parishes

The district includes 16 congregations with about 10,000 parishioners. The parishes with their church buildings are listed below:

Parishes with a parish
- Abtswind , Evangelical Lutheran parish church (first half of the 15th century)
- Altenschönbach , St. Marien (1496)
- Bimbach , Evangelical Lutheran parish church (1708)
- Brünnau , Evangelical Lutheran Church (1705)
- Castell , St. Johannes and Greuth , Evangelical Lutheran Church (1811)
- Eichfeld , Evangelical Lutheran parish church (tower 14th / 15th century, nave 1902)
- Füttersee , St. Laurentius (14th century tower, nave modified in 1709)
- Gerolzhofen , Church of the Redeemer (1923)
- Krautheim , Evangelical Lutheran parish church (14th century tower, 16th / 17th century nave)
- Prichsenstadt , Evangelical Lutheran parish church (14th century tower, nave 1557, 1725)
- Rehweiler , Evangelical Lutheran parish church (1774) and Hague , For the Good Shepherd (1923)
- Volkach , Michaelskapelle (early 15th century)
- Wiesenbronn , Zum Heiligen Kreuz (tower around 1300, nave 1603)
- Zeilitzheim , St. Sigismund , (14th / 15th century)
Parish Rüdenhausen
- Parish of Rüdenhausen , St. Peter and Paul (1708)
- Parish Wiesentheid , Evangelical Lutheran Parish in Feuerbach, former City Hall (1751) and Grace Church (1952)

literature

Rudolf Kniewasser (Ed.): Castell-Grafschaft and Dean's Office . Verlag der Ev.-Luth. Mission Erlangen, Erlangen 1991.
Matthias Simon: Historical Atlas of Bavaria . Ecclesiastical organization, the Protestant Church. Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 1960.
Prosper Graf zu Castell-Castell, Hanns Hubert Hofmann: Historical Atlas of Bavaria . Franconia, Series II, Book 3, The Grafschaft Castell at the end of the old empire. Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 1955.
Wolfgang Osiander: The Reformation in Franconia . Andreas Osiander and the Franconian reformers. Schrenk-Verlag, Gunzenhausen 2008, ISBN 978-3-924270-55-1 .
Sites of Protestant history in Bavaria . JP Peter Verlag, Rothenburg 2006.

Web links

Commons : Evangelical Lutheran Dean's Office Castell - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Official website

Individual evidence

↑ http://www.dekanat-castell.de/ansprechpartner.htm

[1] ttp://www.dekanat-castell.de/ansprechpartner.htm

Evangelical Lutheran Dean's Office
Deanery Church of St. John in Castell
organization
Deanery district	Castell
Church district	Ansbach-Würzburg
Regional church	Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria
statistics
Parishes	16
Parishioners	10,000
management
dean	Günther Klöss-Schuster
Address of the Dean's Office	Kirchplatz 3 97355 Castell
Web presence	www.dekanat-castell.de