Evangelical Lutheran Deanery Nördlingen

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Evangelical Lutheran
Dean's Office

Dean's office building next to the parish church of St. Georg in Nördlingen
organization
Deanery district Nordlingen
Church district augsburg
Regional church Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria
statistics
surface 314 km²
Parishes 20th
Parishioners 16,500
management
dean Gerhard Wolfermann
Address of the Dean's Office Pfarrgasse 5
86720 Nördlingen
Web presence Internet presence

The Evangelical Lutheran deanery in Nördlingen is one of the seven deanery districts of the Augsburg church district . The Dean's District is currently headed by Dean Gerhard Wolfermann. The three Donau-Ries deaneries in Donauwörth , Nördlingen and Oettingen have joined forces to jointly fulfill certain tasks. This includes u. a. a common internet presence.

geography

The landscape of the deanery district of Nördlingen lies in the middle and eastern part of the Ries . Politically, it belongs to the Donau-Ries district . In the west, the Württemberg church district borders Aalen in the Ostalbkreis .

history

The area around Nördlingen (1738)
The counties of Oettingen

Parishes and parishes

With the exception of the diaspora community of Wemding, the parishes and parishes can look back on a long evangelical tradition since the Reformation. The driving forces in the Reformation were the imperial city of Nördlingen and the Counts of Oettingen-Oettingen .

Imperial city of Nördlingen

Emperor Friedrich II acquired Nördlingen in exchange from the diocese of Regensburg in 1215, exchanged it back in 1216, but then got it again. In 1238 the city was destroyed by fire and then rebuilt. The Counts of Oettingen tried to get the city into their hands, so that in 1250 they had the city mortgaged. In 1323 the city succeeded in breaking out of the Ammannamt pledge . Until the end of the old empire, the redemption, the imperial city tax and the core valid remained pledged to the entire house in Oettingen. The manorial power of Nördlingen in the surrounding country lay exclusively with the hospital and the combined foundation maintenance. Donations and acquisitions made the hospital the largest landowner in the city. In the combined foundation maintenance, the property of smaller pious and mild foundations, as well as the property of the secularized city monasteries were combined. The Carmelite Prior Kaspar Kantz introduced German masses in his church in 1522 , which were discontinued in 1523. The city had hired the reformation-minded preacher Theobald Billicanus . It drafted a new order of worship that came into effect on February 13, 1525. In this year the city was also able to acquire church patronage . With Billicanus there were repeated disputes over the correct confession and Billicanus was released on May 19, 1535 at his own request. The new church regulations were drawn up by Kaspar Kantz and put into effect on May 15, 1538. On February 23, 1548, the full Reformation according to the Nuremberg order was decided by the council. The Reformation was introduced by the imperial city of Nördlingen in the following places: Nördlingen , Baldingen , 1543 Goldburghausen , Herkheim (successful Counter-Reformation 1597), 1541 Lierheim , 1543 Nähermemmingen , Pflaumloch (successful Counter-Reformation 1605) and 1535 Schweindorf . Goldburghausen and Schweindorf are today in the church district of Aalen .

Count of Oettingen-Oettingen

The territory of the Counts of Oettingen-Oettingen extended to the gates of the imperial city of Nördlingen. This evangelical line of the Count's House introduced the Reformation around 1539, depending on the rulers. The former Oettinger localities near the city of Nördlingen are today in the deanery district of Nördlingen. The villages to the north around Oettingen belong to the deanery district of Oettingen . The communities south of the city are now in the Donauwörth deanery district . The Reformation was introduced in the following Oettinger places: 1531 Aufhausen , 1539 Forheim , 1556 Unterringingen , 1543 Balgheim , 1540 Deiningen (1548 division into Protestant and Catholic district), 1546 Ederheim , 1536 Ehringen , 1539 Fessenheim , 1539 Großelfingen , 1543 Hohenaötheim , 1555 Hürnheim , 1538 Löpsingen , 1558 Möttingen , 1539 Pfäfflingen , 1557 Schmähingen .

Charterhouse of St. Peter

The Carthusian Monastery of St. Peter in Christgarten fell to the Counts of Oettingen in 1521. The last prior of the monastery, Johannes Sudermann, converted to the Protestant faith with his convent in 1557 and became pastor in Ederheim from 1562–1573. The former monastery church of St. Peter from the 14th century still exists. Only ruins remain of the monastery.

Dean's office

The Bavarian Dean's Office in Nördlingen was established on December 7, 1810. It emerged from the previous Oettingian parishes of the superintendurs Hohenaltheim (Aufhausen, Balgheim, Ederheim, Ehringen, Forheim, Hohenaltheim, Hürnheim, Schmähingen), Mönchsdeggingen (Deiningen, Fessenheim, Großelfingen, Klosterzimern and Möttingen) and Öttingen (Löpsingen). The parish in the cath. Wallerstein was built in 1821 and connected to Ehringen. In 1829 Pfäfflingen came from the Oettingen dean's office. Wemding was rebuilt in 1950 after the Counter Reformation had been successful there in 1567.

Parishes

For deanery district Nördlingen include the following parishes with their congregations :

literature

Web links

Commons : Evangelical Lutheran Deanery Nördlingen  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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