Evangelical Lutheran Dean's Office Michelau

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Evangelical Lutheran
Dean's Office

Johanneskirche in Michelau
organization
Deanery district Michelau
Church district Bayreuth
Regional church Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria
statistics
surface approx. 600 km²
Parishes 20th
Parishioners 24500
management
dean Stefanie Ott-Frühwald
Dean's Church Johanneskirche in Michelau
Address of the Dean's Office Kirchplatz 5
96247 Michelau
Web presence www.dekanat-michelau.de

The Evangelical Lutheran Deanery Michelau is one of the 15 deaneries of the church district of Bayreuth , Bavaria. Stefanie Ott-Frühwald was introduced as dean on April 2, 2017.

geography

The Obermaintal lies in the center of the decant district . Politically, the parishes belong to the districts of Lichtenfels and Coburg, with two exceptions . Mitwitz is located as an exclave in the Kronach district . Zapfendorf is located on the northern edge of the Bamberg district .

history

The Upper Main area has been strongly Catholic again since the Counter Reformation . The traditional Protestant communities used to belong to the Principality of Bayreuth , to the Saxon care of Coburg or to the Imperial Knighthood .

When it became Protestant in 1525, Schney was under the rule of the von Schaumbergs . The rule over Schottenstein was an inheritance of the Schott von Schottenstein , von Lichtenstein and von Rotenhan families . Since all three families were oriented towards Luther's teaching , Schottenstein was able to become Protestant as early as 1525.

The Reformation was introduced in Buch am Forst in 1528 by Coburg. Herreth is the mother parish of Bad Staffelstein and Zapfendorf . In Herreth the Stein von Altenstein introduced the Reformation in 1529. Under the Lords of Lichtenstein , Heilgersdorf became Protestant around 1530 and Lahm im Itzgrund in 1540. In Gleußen there was a knightly inheritance between the bishopric of Bamberg , Coburg and the Rotenhan . Despite the Bamberg share, the Reformation was able to gain a foothold here around 1530 through the appointment of a Protestant clergyman by the community.

In Michelau , the Reformation was primarily driven by the noble families of Redwitz and the Counts of Giech . Michelau was a branch of Marktgraitz. After Marktgraitz became Catholic again in the Counter Reformation in 1611 , the almost entirely Protestant Michelau residents were cared for by Schney until 1777. In 1804 Michelau became its own parish. The Protestant church was built between 1817 and 1819, on the site of the Anna chapel built in 1518. The barons of Redwitz were sovereigns in Redwitz an der Rodach and Obristfeld . Obristfeld became Protestant in 1537. Redwitz was a branch of Altenkunstadt that remained Catholic. In 1583 Redwitz became a branch of Obristfeld. In the Catholic periods in Obristfeld 1638–1649 Redwitz was an independent parish. From the middle of the 16th century to 1906 there was a Catholic right of joint use of the church. Schwürbitz became Catholic again as a branch of Marktgraitz during the Counter-Reformation . The large Protestant part of the community was initially cared for by Obristfeld and from 1804 also by Michelau.

Mitwitz became Protestant and parish at the same time under the Knights of Rosenau in 1567, since the mother church in Kronach remained Catholic.

Gemünda in Upper Franconia became Protestant under the Lords of Bibra in 1590 . The County of Tambach emerged from secularized monastery ownership in 1805. On January 20, 1806, the Counts of Ortenburg received the County of Tambach for their former Lower Bavarian County of Ortenburg through an exchange of territory with the Kingdom of Bavaria . A Protestant castle parish was then established in Tambach. With the conversion of Count Alram zu Ortenburg to the Roman Catholic faith in 1959, the right to use the castle church expired. The Tambach parish then built its own church. In memory of the long steadfastness of the Ortenburg family against the counter-reformation measures of the Bavarian electors, the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Called Joachim-von-Ortenburg-Kirche .

Parishes

For deanery district consists of the following 20 parishes in which 24,500 church members live.

literature

  • Matthias Simon: Historical Atlas of Bavaria . Ecclesiastical organization, the Protestant Church. Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 1960.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sunday paper: Dean Ott-Frühwald introduced in Michelau. April 2017. Retrieved May 20, 2017 .