Evangelical Lutheran Dean's Office Dinkelsbühl
 Dean's Office |
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 Hospital Church of the Holy Spirit, right next to it the Dean's Office |
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| organization | |
| Deanery district | Dinkelsbühl |
| Church district | Ansbach-Würzburg |
| Regional church | Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria |
| statistics | |
| Parishes | 9 |
| Parishes | 18th |
| Parishioners | 14,700 |
| management | |
| dean | Uland Spahlinger |
| Address of the Dean's Office | Dr.-Martin-Luther-Strasse 4 91550 Dinkelsbühl |
| Web presence | www.dekanat-dinkelsbuehl.de |
The Evangelical Lutheran Deanery Dinkelsbühl is one of the 19 deaneries of the Ansbach-Würzburg church district . Uland Spahlinger has been the acting dean since May 1, 2014. He succeeded Martin Kögel in this office.
geography
The Dinkelsbühl deanery district is located in the extreme southwest of the Ansbach district on the border with Baden-Württemberg . The center of the region is the large district town of Dinkelsbühl.
history
The parishes of the deanery can look back on Protestant traditions up to the Reformation . The imperial city of Dinkelsbühl appointed the first Protestant pastor in 1533 after having acquired church patronage in 1532. The city became 90% Protestant until the Schmalkaldic War . After the defeat of the Schmalkaldic League , the emperor forced the establishment of a Catholic council with the Augsburg Interim . The St. Georg Minster was returned to the Catholics in 1549 for sole use . For the Evangelicals , who made up 80% of the population, the much too small Holy Spirit Church was assigned. The parish rights lay with St. George, so that Protestant baptisms could only take place outside the city. This was also enforced by police force by arresting Protestant pastors. With the Peace of Westphalia , parity was established. At the same time, the evangelical community received the promise to build its own church. However, after the devastation of the Thirty Years' War, they were long short of money. It was only after the visit of King Ludwig I in 1826 that funds gradually came together to tear down the former Carmelite Church and replace it with the Church of St. Paul. In 1843 this church was consecrated with about 1500 seats. In the rural area of the imperial city of Dinkelsbühl, the communities of Sinnbronn and Greiselbach remained Protestant through the Augsburg interim. Wilburgstetten and Villersbronn became Catholic again. The Reformation was introduced in the Margraviate of Brandenburg-Ansbach in 1528. Sometimes even later in places with disputed rights. In today's Dinkelsbühl deanery district, Luther's teaching was introduced in the following places in Ansbach: 1528 Illenschwang , Lehengütingen , Obermichelbach , Untermichelbach , Schopfloch , around 1530 Wittelshofen , 1541 Frankenhofen , 1563 Dorfkemmathen , 1566 Weidelbach . The time of the introduction of the Reformation in the Ansbach town of Dühren cannot be determined. In the Dinkelsbühl area are the northeastern foothills of the Evangelical-minded county of Oettingen-Oettingen . The counts abolished the Benedictine monastery Mönchsroth in 1558 . The community became Protestant. In the same year the Reformation was introduced in Segringen . The place Weiltingen was disputed between Oettingen, Ansbach and the manor of the Lords of Knöringen . The place became Protestant between 1545 and 1562. From 1616 Württemberg was the owner of the manor. Veitsweiler belonged to the Weiltingen manor. The Reformation was introduced here in 1555.
Parishes
The Dean's Office has approximately 14,700 church members in 18 parishes , to nine parishes are summarized. The parishes, their associated parishes and their church buildings are listed below:
- Parish of Dinkelsbühl
- Parish Dinkelsbühl , 3 parish, Holy Spirit Church (1380, 1774), St. Paul (1843)
- Parish Dorfkemmathen
- Parish Dorfkemmathen , Marienkirche For Lady
- Parish Obermichelbach , St. Michaelis
- Parish Under Michelbach , St. Leonhard
- Parish Illenschwang
- Parish Illenschwang , St. Andrew
- Parish Sinbronn , St. Peter , Chapel of St. Mary in Bernhard Wend
- Parish Lehengütingen-Weidelbach
- Parish Lehengütingen , St. Wendelin
- Parish Weidelbach , Ortisei
- Parish Zwernberg , St. Nicholas
- Parish Mönchsroth
- Parish Mönchsroth , Village Church St. Oswald and Giles , Abbey Church of St. Peter and Paul
- Parish Greiselbach , St. Stephen
- Parish Schopfloch
- Parish Schopfloch , St. Martin
- Parish of Segringen
- Parish Segringen , St. Vincent (12th century.)
- Parish of Weiltingen
- Parish Weiltingen , Parish Church of St. Peter (mid-15th century. Fürstengruft) Cemetery Church St. Leonhard in Ruffenhofen fortified church of St. Nicholas
- Parish Veit Weiler , St. Veit
- Wittelshofen parish
- Parish Wittelshofen , St. Martin
- Parish Frankenhofen , St. Bartholomew (late 14th century.)
- Parish Dühren , St. Michael
literature
- Address manual for the Rezat district of the Kingdom of Baiern . Johann Baptist Reindl, Bamberg 1814, p. 110-111 ( digitized version ).
- Address and statistical handbook for the Rezatkreis in the Kingdom of Baiern . Buchdruckerei Chancellery, Ansbach 1820, p. 215-216 ( digitized version ).
- Official handbook for the Protestant clergy of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Publishing house of the general Protestant Pfarrwittwen-Casse, Sulzbach 1821, p. 267-268 ( digitized version ).
- Matthias Simon: Historical Atlas of Bavaria . Ecclesiastical organization, the Protestant Church. Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 1960.
- Wolfgang Osiander: The Reformation in Franconia . Andreas Osiander and the Franconian reformers. Schrenk-Verlag, Gunzenhausen 2008, ISBN 978-3-924270-55-1 .
- Thomas Greif (Hrsg.): Places of Protestant history in Bavaria . JP Peter Verlag, Rothenburg odT 2006, ISBN 978-3-87625-035-9 .
