Evangelical Lutheran Deanery Kulmbach

Evangelical Lutheran Dean's Office
Petrikirche in Kulmbach deanery church
organization
Deanery district	Kulmbach
Church district	Bayreuth
Regional church	Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria
statistics
Parishes	25th
management
dean	Thomas Kretschmar
Dean's Church	St. Petri, Kulmbach
Address of the Dean's Office	Huthergasse 8 95326 Kulmbach
Web presence	www.kulmbach-evangelisch.de

The Evangelical Lutheran Deanery in Kulmbach is one of the 16 deaneries of the Bayreuth church district in Bavaria.

history

In Kulmbach, the residence of the Margraviate of Brandenburg-Kulmbach had been located on the Plassenburg since 1398 , and from 1604 it was moved to Bayreuth . Margrave Georg the Pious introduced the Reformation to his margravate in 1528. In Gärthenroth, the lords of Redwitz , who turned to the Reformation, had been arguing with the Michelsberg Monastery since 1529 about the occupation of the pastorate, whereby the Redwitz won and since the Thirty Years' War the pastorate was continuously occupied by Protestants. Since the Peace of Augsburg in 1555, knightly families were also allowed to turn to the Reformation. The knight Wolf Adolf von Waldenfels introduced Protestant teaching in Rugendorf in 1555 and set up his own parish with a church.

Parishes

The following parishes and parishes belong to the deanery district:

in Kulmbach

• Petrikirche (started in 1439) since 1524 ev.
• Nikolaikirche (1576)
• Hospital Church (1740)
• Church of the Resurrection (1956)
• Friedenskirche (1962)
• Kreuzkirche (1963)
• Burghaig, Johanneskirche (1968)
• Mangersreuth, Protestant parish church (1721)

outside of Kulmbach

• Gartenroth , church in honor of the Holy Mother of God Mary and the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul and other 30 saints (1108)
• Grafengehaig , Church of the Holy Spirit (1448–1510) and Gösmes , Christ Chapel
• Guttenberg , St. Georg (1800)
• Harsdorf , St. Martin (1765, a bell from 1424)
• Parish church
  • Kirchleus , St. Mary Magdalene (1776)
  • Gössersdorf , St. Egidius
• Lehenthal , Protestant Church (1900)
• Mainleus , Christ Church (1953)
• Melkendorf , St. Aegidius (1731)
• Neuenmarkt , Christ Church
• Presseck , Church of the Holy Trinity
• Rugendorf , parish church
• Schwarzach
  • Schwarzach , St. Johannis (1610–1612)
  • Willmersreuth , St. Andreas
• Untereinach
  • Untersteinach , St. Oswald
  • Stadtsteinach , Protestant church
• Trebgast , St. Johannes (1751)
• Veitlahm , St. Veit (1599)
• Wirsberg
  • Wirsberg , St. Johannis (1647, 1779)
  • Cottenau , St. Petri and Pauli (1606-9)

The following parishes are grouped together in the overall parish of Kulmbach: Kulmbach Church of Resurrection, Kulmbach Church of Peace, Kulmbach Cross Church, Kulmbach-Mangersreuth, Kulmbach-Petrikirche, Untersteinach and Stadtsteinach.

literature

• Gerhard Schott (Ed.): Evang.-Luth. Deanery Kulmbach . Portrait of a deanery district. Verlag der Ev.-Luth. Mission, Erlangen 1991.
• Matthias Simon: Historical Atlas of Bavaria . Ecclesiastical organization, the Protestant Church. Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 1960.

Web links

Commons : Evangelical Lutheran Deanery Kulmbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website

Individual evidence

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