Evangelical Lutheran Dean's Office Graefenberg
 Dean's Office |
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 Trinity Church in Graefenberg |
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| organization | |
| Deanery district | Graefenberg |
| Church district | Nuremberg |
| Regional church | Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria |
| statistics | |
| surface | 290 km² |
| Parishes | 12 |
| Parishioners | 13,300 |
| management | |
| Dean | Christine Schürmann |
| Dean's Church | Trinity Church in Graefenberg |
| Address of the Dean's Office | Kirchplatz 3 91322 Graefenberg |
| Web presence | www.graefenberg-evangelisch.de |
The Evangelical Lutheran Deanery of Graefenberg is one of the 10 deaneries of the Nuremberg Church District . The acting dean has been the Protestant theologian Reiner Redlingshöfer since July 2020. He is the successor to the theologian Berthild Sachs, who headed the dean from 2016 to 2019 and has now moved to the Schwabach dean's office.
history
The Bavarian dean's office in Graefenberg was established on December 7, 1810. The parishes of Graefenberg, St. Helena, Hiltpoltstein, Kirchrüsselbach and Walkersbrunn were previously part of the imperial city of Nuremberg , which had introduced the Reformation in 1525 . Four knightly parishes were placed under the deanery. The Lords of Egloffstein introduced the Reformation in their territory, before 1544 in Affalterthal, around 1550 in Egloffstein and around 1525 in Kunreuth. The rule in Ermreuth during the Reformation was the von Muffel patrician family from Nuremberg . Igensdorf became Protestant around 1525 under Nuremberg rule. In 1796 it fell to Prussia and was placed under the superintendent of Erlangen. In 1810 the dean's office at Graefenberg was appointed. In Thuisbrunn the Margraviate of Brandenburg-Kulmbach introduced the Reformation in 1528. In 1558 it was subordinated to the superintendent of Kulmbach. After several reclassifications, the Graefenberg dean's office came in 1810.
geography
The deanery district is located on the southern edge of Franconian Switzerland, mainly in the administrative region of Upper Franconia . The exception is the parish of Sankt Helena zu Großengsee (municipality of Simmelsdorf ), which is in the district of Nürnberger Land and thus in the administrative district of Middle Franconia .
Parishes
The Dean's Office District 13,300 church members lived in twelve parishes . Currently (2019) there are 10% fewer with 12,000 parishioners. The parishes and their church buildings are listed below:
- Affalterthal , Protestant churches in Affalterthal and Bieberbach
- Egloffstein , St. Bartholomäus
- Parish of Ermreuth
- Parish Ermreuth , St. Peter and Paul
- Parish Walkersbrunn , to the sacred tombs
- Graefenberg , Dreieinigkeitskirche
- Hiltpoltstein , St. Matthew
- Kirchrüsselbach , St. Jacobus
- Kunreuth , St. Luke
- Igensdorf , St. Georg
- Neunkirchen am Brand , Christ Church
- Sankt Helena zu Großengsee , St. Helena '(16th century), Kreuzkirche (19th century)
- Thuisbrunn , St. Catherine
literature
- Address manual for the Rezat district of the Kingdom of Baiern . Johann Baptist Reindl, Bamberg 1814, p. 119-120 ( 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 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Rieke C. Harmsen: Pastor Reiner Redlingshöfer becomes dean in Graefenberg | Sunday paper - 360 degrees evangelical. Retrieved July 6, 2020 .
- ↑ Timo Lechner: Graefenberger Dean Berthild Sachs goes to Schwabach with a vision | Sunday paper - 360 degrees evangelical. Retrieved July 6, 2020 .
- ↑ Gräfenberg relentlessly analyzed leaving the church
