Evangelical Lutheran Dean's Office Erlangen

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Evangelical Lutheran
Dean's Office

Neustädter parish church, deanery and university church
organization
Deanery district gain
Church district Nuremberg
Regional church Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria
statistics
Parishes 31
Parishioners 80,000
management
dean Peter Huschke
Address of the Dean's Office Friedrichstrasse 15
91054 Erlangen
Web presence www.erlangen-evangelisch.de

The Evangelical Lutheran deanery in Erlangen is one of the ten deaneries in the Nuremberg Church District . Acting dean is Peter Huschke. The Dean's Office is divided into three regions. The Central Region is headed by Dean Peter Huschke based in Erlangen . The regions west and east are looked after by the deputy deans Karola Schürrle and Oliver Schürrle based in Herzogenaurach and Gerhild Rüger based in Uttenreuth .

history

Principalities of Ansbach and Bayreuth

In 1564 a deanery of the Margraviate Brandenburg-Ansbach was established in Baiersdorf . Although Baiersdorf belonged to the Margraviate of Brandenburg-Kulmbach at that time , it was under Ansbach administration due to the joint government of the two principalities. From 1679 the deanery, again in Bavaria, was run as a superintendent. When it was established, the deanery included the parishes of Baiersdorf, Erlangen (today's Erlangen-Altstadt parish), Frauenaurach, Hausen, Hohenstadt and Uttenreuth. Möhrendorf was acquired in 1663. In 1683, Kairlindach and Münchaurach (today Aurachtal) from the Neustadt an der Aisch deanery were added. In 1703 the parish of Erlangen-Neustadt was established. In 1706 the (today's old) city of Erlangen, including the historic old town church, burned down almost completely, so that the old town church had to be rebuilt. In January 1724 the seat of the superintendent was moved to Erlangen-Neustadt. Due to the great resistance of Baierdorf, it was initially declared exempt on June 10, 1724. After the death of Erlangen superintendent Seyfarth, Baiersdorf was restored as superintendent and Erlangen-Neustadt was declared exempt. After Erlangen-Neustadt became a university parish in 1744, this parish was also excluded . Eschenau was acquired in 1752.

Imperial city of Nuremberg

The imperial city of Nuremberg introduced the Reformation in 1524. As a result of the Prussian revindication in 1796, the following parishes in the imperial city of Nuremberg came to Baiersdorf: Beerbach, Behringersdorf, Bruck, Eltersdorf, Großgründlach, Kalchreuth, Heroldsberg, Igensdorf, Rückersdorf, Tennenlohe, Kraftshof, and Nürnberg-St. Jobst. In 1803 Forth was acquired.

Reformed parishes

Today's Erlanger Neustadt was named after its founder, Margrave Christian Ernst Christian-Erlang, who - although Lutheran himself - invited Huguenot religious refugees in 1686 to build a new city in his margravate south of the existing medieval city of Erlangen. In addition, he finances the construction of the temple (without the tower that was built later) - today known as the Huguenot Church - completely out of his own pocket and also made soldiers available for its construction. The same applies to the complete planning of the baroque new town. He also granted grants and loans for the construction of further buildings. In 1686 the French Reformed parish was established. The margrave contractually waived taxes for many years. A few years later he granted these privileges to German Reformed refugees from the Electoral Palatinate who had to emigrate after the devastation of the Palatinate War of Succession . The German Reformed parish was established in 1693 when the construction of the Huguenot church was finished. Shortly before the inauguration, the Palatine was granted a right of use in the French Reformed Church by the Margrave. This ended with the construction of the German Reformed Church on Bohlenplatz from 1728.

The two Reformed parishes (the German-Reformed with guest status) were part of a synod of Reformed (Huguenot) parishes in the margravate of Brandenburg-Bayreuth and Brandenburg-Ansbach, in which the Huguenot congregation in Hildburghausen in Thuringia also took part for a few years. After the margraviate fell to Prussia in 1792 with the abdication of the last Ansbach margrave, they came to Bavaria as a result of the Napoleonic Wars. As a result, the Reformed parishes were subordinated to a Lutheran general deanate and a Lutheran dean in the sense of a royal Protestant state church in 1811 , which repeatedly led to points of friction for over a hundred years. With the end of the monarchy after the First World War, the state churches also ended, so that the Reformed parishes left the Lutheran deaneries in 1919. Together with other Reformed parishes they formed the Evangelical Reformed Church in Bavaria . In 1922 both Reformed parishes united to form the Evangelical Reformed Parish of Erlangen. The German Reformed Church on Bohlenplatz was sold to the Lutheran deanery and is now used as the Lutheran parish hall.

Bavarian time

On December 7, 1810, the Bavarian dean's office in Erlangen was established. Until 1814 the seat was in Baiersdorf. The following parishes have recently been established: 1951 Herzogenaurach, 1952 Erlangen-Johanneskirche, 1957 Erlangen-Markuskirche, 1958 Erlangen-Matthäuskirche.

Parishes

The district includes 31 parishes in three regions where 80,000 church members live. The parishes , their associated parishes and their church buildings are listed below. A complete overview can be found on the website of the Dean's Office.

literature

Web links

Commons : Evangelical Lutheran Dean's Office Erlangen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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