Evangelical Lutheran Dean's Office in Hof

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Evangelical Lutheran
Dean's Office
organization
Deanery district court
Church district Bayreuth
Regional church Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria
statistics
surface 365 km²
Parishes 26th
Parishioners 45,651 (2014)
management
dean Günter Saalfrank
Dean's Church St. Michaelis Hof
Address of the Dean's Office Maxplatz 6
95028 Hof
Web presence www.dekanat-hof.de
St. Michaelis Church Hof , seat of the dean - to the left of the church: Maxplatz with the dean's office (office) and parish office
Lorenz Church
Hospital Church
Church of the Resurrection
Peace Church in Zedtwitz

The Evangelical Lutheran dean's office Hof is a district of the Bayreuth church district of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria . The dean heads the dean's office and has his seat in St. Michaelis , the main church in Hof .

history

On September 5, 1529, with a German mass celebrated by Magister Kaspar Löner in St. Michaelis, the creation of the Protestant church system in Hof and the surrounding area began. At the same time, the church order drafted by Löner came into force. The extensive Reformation activities of Löner practically made the Michaeliskirche the main church of the city, although under canon law it remained a branch of the mother church of Hof, St. Lorenz .

In 1558, Margrave Georg Friedrich set up the superintendent of Hof to better organize church affairs in the Kulmbach margrave . It was one of the four superintendent's offices in the Oberland alongside Bayreuth , Kulmbach and Wunsiedel . Since then, the first parish office of St. Michaelis has been connected with the office of superintendent - later the dean - without interruption, and St. Michaelis has officially become the main church of Hof.

Johann Streitberger became the first superintendent . In 1567 he moved to the residential city of Kulmbach and worked there as general superintendent . His successor in Hof was Pancratius.

Since 1810 the Bayreuth Markgraftum (until 1601 called the Kulmbach Markgraftum ) became Bavarian, the superintendents are now called deans and the superintendent's offices have become deaneries . The superintendent of Hof was divided into the three deaneries:

  • the dean's office Hof,
  • the deanery (Bad) Steben - today the deanery Naila and
  • the dean's office in Ludwigsstadt - from 2010 dean's office in Kronach-Ludwigsstadt

The design of the deaneries roughly corresponded to the state Bavarian administrative units in the former margravate.

In 1926 the parish of Hof was divided into nine districts. In future, each parish priest had to hold the baptisms, weddings and funerals that occurred in his parish himself. Baptisms and Holy Communion celebrations now took place not only in the main church of St. Michaelis, but also in St. Lorenz and in the Hospital Church . Michaeliskirche remained the rule for weddings. Before the Second World War , several new churches were built and consecrated in the outskirts of Hof: In 1929 the Church of the Resurrection in Moschendorf , in 1929 the Luther House in Neuhof and Hofeck, in 1939 the Christ Church in the Münsterviertel and the Johanneshaus in "Vertl" on Oelsnitzer Strasse.

After the end of the Second World War, tens of thousands of displaced persons and returnees were smuggled through the Moschendorf camp . The growth of the city made a reorganization of the Hof church necessary. In 1947, six independent parishes were formed from the nine pastors' chapels in Hof: St. Michaelis , St. Lorenz , Hospital Church, St. John, Christ Church, Luther Church. For the other three pastoral care districts - if not yet available - the creation of spatial centers was prepared. The communities of Resurrection Church (1951), Dreieinigkeitskirche (1965, in Krötenbruck) and Kreuzkirche (1966, on Kulmbacher Strasse) were subsequently established . The municipalities of Hof merged on June 23, 1947 to form a single parish with central administration at Maxplatz 1. In 1983 the Tauperlitz parish was added, which had become independent.

The parish office in Hof today not only administers the parishes of the dean's office in Hof, but also the parishes of the dean's offices in Münchberg, Naila, Selb and Wunsiedel.

In 2008 the dean's office in Hof celebrated its 450th anniversary.

geography

The dean's office in Hof is located at the northeastern tip of Bavaria between Vogtland , Fichtelgebirge and Franconian Forest . Once located in the geographical center of the German Empire , it was the border dean's office at the triangle after the Second World War until 1989. The routes ended at the “ Iron Curtain ”, which went across Germany and on to the Eastern Bloc country of Czechoslovakia . Since 1989 the dean's office has moved back to the center of Europe.

The dean's office Hof comprises the Protestant parishes of the independent city ​​of Hof and parts of the old district of Hof . It consists of 26 parishes with 46,546 Protestant parishioners today. In 1979 there were 78,000 parishioners, a decrease of 40.3%. Like the entire region, the dean's office in Hof is struggling with an aging population, emigration and demographic problems .

Parishes

The following parishes and their associated churches exist in the dean's district of Hof:

Parishes in courtyard

Parishes outside the courtyard

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated May 24, 2008 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dekanat-hof.de

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Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′ 7.4 ″  N , 11 ° 54 ′ 47.9 ″  E