Evangelical Lutheran Dean's Office in Rothenburg ob der Tauber
 Dean's Office |
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 Dean's office building next to St. Jakob in Rothenburg ob der Tauber |
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| organization | |
| Deanery district | Rothenburg ob der Tauber |
| Church district | Ansbach-Würzburg |
| Regional church | Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria |
| statistics | |
| Parishes | 16 |
| Parishes | 32 |
| Parishioners | 20000 |
| management | |
| dean | Hans-Gerhard Gross |
| Dean's Church | St. Jakob in Rothenburg |
| Address of the Dean's Office | Gustav-Adolf-Platz 6 97318 Kitzingen |
| Web presence | www.rothenburgtauber-evangelisch.de/dekanat |
The Evangelical Lutheran deanery in Rothenburg ob der Tauber is one of the 19 deaneries in the Ansbach-Würzburg church district . Acting dean is Hans-Gerhard Gross.
history
The evangelical roots of the parishes of the deanery district go back to the Reformation. The rulers at that time were primarily the imperial city of Rothenburg and the margraviate of Brandenburg-Ansbach .
On February 26, 1526, Rothenburg finally declared itself Protestant. The Augsburg Interim brought a setback. In 1554 evangelical preaching was possible again in St. Jakob. On August 27, 1556, the Teutonic Order ceded all church rights. In the Rothenburg region, Protestant teaching was introduced at the same time as the city, where the city had patronage rights. This was the case in 21 out of 45 parishes. Today they are in Bavaria : Adelshofen , Bettwar , Erzberg , Gailnau , Gattenhofen , Habelsee , Kirnberg , Leuzenbronn , Neusitz , Ohrbach , Schweinsdorf , Spielbach , Steinsfeld , Tauberscheckenbach , Wettringen , and Wörnitz . In Baden-Württemberg today are: Finsterlohr , Gammesfeld , Hausen a. B. , Leuzendorf , Lichtel , Oberstetten , Schmerbach and Wildentierbach . 1544 is also the year in which Steinach ad Enns became Protestant. Here the right of patronage lay with the senior of the entire Castell family . In Gebsattel , the Komburg monastery had the right of patronage, so that the parish was again occupied by Catholics from 1584. The following Ansbach patronage parishes became Protestant in the Rothenburg area: around 1540 Oestheim , 1540 Diebach , 1544 Insingen , Bettenfeld and 1549 Lohr . In Frankenheim the Hohenlohe introduced the Reformation before 1546.
A consistory was founded in 1559 for church administration in Rothenburg. It was run by a superintendent until 1701, then by a councilor until it was mediated . The main preacher of St. Jakob held the position of superintendent.
Parishes
20,000 church members live in 32 to deanery district parishes , the 16 parishes belong. The parishes and parishes and their church buildings are listed below.
- North region
- Parish of Adelshofen
- Parish of Adelshofen , St. Nikolaus
- Parish Tauber Check Bach , St. John the Baptist
- Parish Tauberzell , St. Veit
- Ohrbach parish
- Parish Habelsee , St. Michael
- Parish Ohrenbach , St. John and Upper check Bach , St. Kilian
- Parish Steinach an der Ens
- Parish Mörlbach , daughter church of St. Lawrence
- Parish Steinach at the Ens , Parish Church of St. Mary
- Parish of Steinsfeld
- Parish Steinfeld , St. Mary's Church , Chapel St. Konrad in Reichelshofen
- Parish husband Hofen , St. Michael
- Parish of Windelsbach
- Parish Windelsbach , St. Martin
- Parish Preuntsfelden , St. Nicholas
- Parish of Adelshofen
- Central Region
- Parish of Gebsattel
- Parish of Leuzenbronn-Bettenfeld
- Parish Bettenfeld , St. Wendelin
- Parish Leuzenbronn , St. Andrew
- Parish of Neusitz
- Parish Neusitz , Holy Cross
- Parish Schweinsdorf , St. Ottilia
- Parish Rothenburg - Holy Spirit
- Parish of Rothenburg ob der Tauber , Heilig Geist hospital church
- Parish Rothenburg - St. Jakob
- Parish Bettwar , St. George
- Parish Detwang , St. Peter and Paul
- Parish of Rothenburg ob der Tauber , St. Jakob , Franciscan Church
- South region
- Parish Diebach-Oestheim
- Parish Diebach , St. Bartholomew
- Parish Oestheim , St. Veit between the lower and Oberoestheim
- Parish Faulenberg , St. Sixtus
- Parish of Frankenheim-Schillingsfürst
- Parish Schillingsfürst , St. Kilian
- Parish of Insingen
- Wettringen parish
- Parish Wettringen , St. Peter and Paul
- Parish Gailnau , St. Alban in Untergailnau
- Parish Wörnitz
- Parish Diebach-Oestheim
literature
- Address manual for the Rezat district of the Kingdom of Baiern . Johann Baptist Reindl, Bamberg 1814, p. 133-135 ( digitized version ).
- Address and statistical handbook for the Rezatkreis in the Kingdom of Baiern . Buchdruckerei Chancellery, Ansbach 1820, p. 249-251 ( digitized version ).
- Official handbook for the Protestant clergy of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Publishing house of the general Protestant Pfarrwittwen-Casse, Sulzbach 1821, p. 313-315 ( digitized version ).
- Matthias Simon: Historical Atlas of Bavaria . Ecclesiastical organization, the Protestant Church. Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 1960.
- Wolfgang Osiander: The Reformation in Franconia . Andreas Osiander and the Franconian reformers. Schrenk-Verlag, Gunzenhausen 2008, ISBN 978-3-924270-55-1 .
