Evangelical Lutheran deanery Gunzenhausen

Evangelical Lutheran ; Dean's Office
	; Deanery Church of St. Maria in Gunzenhausen
organization
Deanery district	Gunzenhausen
Church district	Ansbach-Würzburg
Regional church	Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria
statistics
Parishes	28
Parishioners	approx.20,000 (2011)
management
dean	Klaus Mendel
Dean's Church	Evang. St. Marien town church, Gunzenhausen
Address of the Dean's Office	Kirchenplatz 13 ; 91710 Gunzenhausen
Web presence	www.dekanat-gunzenhausen.de

The Evangelical Lutheran deanery Gunzenhausen is one of the 19 deaneries of the Ansbach-Würzburg church district . The seat is Gunzenhausen , a town in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen , Bavaria.

geography

For deanery Gunzenhausen largely include all cities of the former county Gunzenhausen .

The following political communities are located in the deanery district of Gunzenhausen (starting in the north):

Parishes in the deanery

The deanery comprises 28 parishes in which about 20,000 parishioners live. These are listed below, starting in the north, with their church buildings:

Merkendorf
- Merkendorf / Wolframs-Eschenbach - Our Lady , Hirschlach - St. Johannis
Alten- and Neuenmuhr
- Altenmuhr - St. Johannis , Neuenmuhr - St. Jakobus
Forest
- Forest - St. Martin and Agidius , Stetten - St. Peter
Haundorf
- Haundorf - St. Wolfgang , Laubenzedel - St. Sixtus
Gunzenhausen
- Gunzenhausen St. Mariae Virginis , Löhehaus , Spitalkirche
Aha
- Aha - Margrave Church of the Holy Cross , Unterwurmbach - St. Jodokus , Pflaumfeld - St. Laurentius
Kalbensteinberg
- Kalbensteinberg - Rieterkirche St. Marien and Christophorus , Fünfbronn - St. Michael
Graefensteinberg
- Graefensteinberg - St. Martin , Brombach - St. Johannis-Baptist
Unterasbach
- Unterasbach - St. Michael , Frickenfelden - chapel , Oberasbach - St. Wolfgang
Absberg
- Absberg - Christ Church , Spalt - St. Christophorus
Pfofeld
- Pfofeld - St. Michael , Thannhausen - St. Bartholomäus
Theilenhofen
- Theilenhofen - St. Agatha , Dornhausen - St. Georg , Wachstein - St. Michael , Gundelsheim - St. Bartholomäus , Wachenhofen - St. Hieronymus
Dittenheim
- Dittenheim - St. Peter and Paul , Windsfeld - St. Gangolf

Vacation pastoral care

The dean's office in Gunzenhausen operates holiday pastoral care . At the Altmühlsee , the Großer and the Kleiner Brombachsee , pastors from all over Germany , who go on vacation there and are employed by the deanery for a limited period, celebrate open-air services for vacationers and locals in the summer months . The deanery has built so-called shepherd car churches for the holiday pastoral care . There are a total of three of these shepherd's wagons , in which worship items are stored, in the deanery. These are used at the open-air worship services at the three lakes.

Church work

The dean's office has been running a youth center on Brombachsee in Ramsberg for a long time .

A total of 25 trumpet choirs from the parishes are active in the deanery . (As of 2010)

There are regular services for women . The parishes of the deanery take turns holding women's services.

partnership

At the meeting of the Dean's Synod in October 2010, a partnership with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Malaysia and Singapore was decided with 96% of the votes . Another partnership was agreed with the Selangor district .

Deans (selection)

18th century: Johann Heinrich Schulin
1977–1990: Wilhelm Bogner
1991–2001: Friedrich Wiedemann
2002–2010: Gerhard Schleier
since 2011: Klaus Mendel

literature

Address manual for the Franconian principalities of Ansbach and Bayreuth . Publishing house of the two orphanages, Ansbach and Bayreuth 1801, p. 126-131 ( digitized version ).

Address manual for the Rezat district of the Kingdom of Baiern . Johann Baptist Reindl, Bamberg 1814, p. 120-122 ( digitized version ).

Address and statistical handbook for the Rezatkreis in the Kingdom of Baiern . Buchdruckerei Chancellery, Ansbach 1820, p. 225-227 ( digitized version ).

Official handbook for the Protestant clergy of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Publishing house of the general Protestant Pfarrwittwen-Casse, Sulzbach 1821, p. 279-281 ( digitized version ).

Hanns Hubert Hofmann : Gunzenhausen-Weißenburg . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria , part of Franconia . Series I, Issue 8. Komm. Für Bayerische Landesgeschichte, Munich 1960, DNB 452071089 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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

Official website

Individual evidence

↑ http://www.dekanat-gunzenhausen.de/index.php?id=0,1
↑ Parishes of the deanery Gunzenhausen
↑ Trumpet choirs in the dean's office Gunzenhausen
↑ Women's work in the dean's office Gunzenhausen
^ Community letter - Evangelical Lutheran parishes Merkendorf / Wolframs-Eschenbach and Hirschlach; Edition Christmas / New Year / Epiphany 2010/2011. On the way to a partnership . P. 10.

[1] ttp://www.dekanat-gunzenhausen.de/index.php?id=0,1

[2] Parishes of the deanery Gunzenhausen

[3] Trumpet choirs in the dean's office Gunzenhausen

[4] Women's work in the dean's office Gunzenhausen

[5] Community letter - Evangelical Lutheran parishes Merkendorf / Wolframs-Eschenbach and Hirschlach; Edition Christmas / New Year / Epiphany 2010/2011. On the way to a partnership . P. 10.

Evangelical Lutheran Dean's Office
Deanery Church of St. Maria in Gunzenhausen
organization
Deanery district	Gunzenhausen
Church district	Ansbach-Würzburg
Regional church	Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria
statistics
Parishes	28
Parishioners	approx.20,000 (2011)
management
dean	Klaus Mendel
Dean's Church	Evang. St. Marien town church, Gunzenhausen
Address of the Dean's Office	Kirchenplatz 13 91710 Gunzenhausen
Web presence	www.dekanat-gunzenhausen.de