Evangelical Lutheran Deanery Schweinfurt

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Evangelical Lutheran
Dean's Office

Dean's office building in Schweinfurt
organization
Deanery district Schweinfurt
Church district Ansbach-Würzburg
Regional church Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria
statistics
Parishes 19th
Parishes 27
Parishioners 41,500 (2017)
management
dean Oliver Bruckmann
Dean's Church St. Johannis, Schweinfurt
Address of the Dean's Office Martin-Luther-Platz 18
97421 Schweinfurt
Web presence www.schweinfurt-evangelisch.de

The Evangelical Lutheran deanery in Schweinfurt is one of the 19 deaneries in the Ansbach-Würzburg church district . The current dean has been Oliver Bruckmann since October 2006.

geography

The deanery district lies between the Rhön and the Maindreieck . The communities in the north are in the Bad Kissingen district . To the south, the district and city of Schweinfurt join. In the far south is the parish Obereisenheim in the district of Würzburg .

history

Before the Bavarian period in 1803, there were many different territories in today's deanery area. The communities that have been evangelical since the Reformation are concentrated in the Lauertal and the Schweinfurt area. At that time, however, the Würzburg monastery had the largest share of the area , so that the Schweinfurt area is predominantly Roman Catholic .

Imperial city and imperial villages

The Reformation was introduced in the imperial city of Schweinfurt and its territorial places Oberndorf , Weipoltshausen and Zell in 1542. The imperial villages of Gochsheim and Sennfeld followed a short time later.

Imperial Knighthood

The imperial knighthood places Euerbach , Obbach , Niederwerrn and Schwebheim also joined the Reformation. The Reformation was introduced in Euerbach by Wolf von Steinau . A year cannot be determined. It is said to have taken place during the term of office of Pastor Nikolaus Müller (1516–1531). Kasimir von Seckendorff tried to introduce the Reformation in Obbach, which his son-in-law Ludwig von Hutten successfully opposed. Kasimir's son Hans Ludwig von Seckendorff succeeded in successfully introducing Protestant teaching. In Niederwerrn, Eyrich von Münster appointed Stephan Schatz, a Protestant preacher, in 1566, after which the attempt to persuade the Geldersheim pastor Braun to convert to Protestant teaching had failed.

County Castell

The Obereisenheim , located in the very south of the deanery, belonged in the old empire to the Grafschaft Castell , where Luther's teaching was introduced in 1546.

Princely county of Henneberg

The Lauertal communities Maßbach , Poppenlauer , Rothausen , Thundorf , Volkershausen and Madenhausen had become Protestant through the Count of Henneberg.

Fortified churches

The fortified churches in the deanery district are to be emphasized in terms of art and cultural history . The largest and best preserved is the Gochsheimer Kirchenburg in the former imperial village of Gochsheim . The Reichsdorf Museum is located there. The fortified church in Euerbach also forms a closed building ensemble . The fortified church of Niederwerrn can still be seen today, even if the surrounding buildings are no longer made entirely of old structures.

Parishes

The deanery district Schweinfurt includes 19 parishes, i. H. Parish offices, some of which consist of several parishes , a total of 27. In 2017 there were around 41,500 parishioners living in the parishes. The parishes and parishes and their church buildings are listed below.

  • Churches

  • Church of the Redeemer in Bad Kissingen

  • St. Cosmas and Damian in Euerbach

  • St. Michael in Gochsheim

  • St. Wendelin in Madenhausen

  • St. Barholomäus in Maßbach

  • Parish church in Niederwerrn

  • Parish church in Obbach

  • Kreuzkirche Oberndorf

  • Poppenlauer Resurrection Church

  • Evangelical Church in Rothausen

  • Resurrection Church in Schwebheim

  • St. Johannis in Schweinfurt

  • St. Salvator in Schweinfurt

  • Trinity Church in Sennfeld

  • Evangelical Church in Thundorf

  • Evangelical Church in Volkershausen

  • St. Bartholomew in Weipoltshausen

  • Matthew Church in Zell

See also

literature

  • Matthias Simon: Historical Atlas of Bavaria . Ecclesiastical organization, the Protestant Church. Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 1960.
  • Prosper Graf zu Castell-Castell, Hanns Hubert Hofmann: Historical Atlas of Bavaria . Franconia, Series II, Book 3, The Grafschaft Castell at the end of the old empire. Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 1955.
  • Heinrich Wagner: Historical Atlas of Bavaria . Franken series I issue 36: Kissingen. Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 2009.
  • Johannes Strauss, Kathi Petersen (ed.): Streiflichter on the church history in Schweinfurt . St. Johannis parish, Schweinfurt 1992.
  • Wolfgang Osiander: The Reformation in Franconia . Andreas Osiander and the Franconian reformers. Schrenk-Verlag, Gunzenhausen 2008, ISBN 978-3-924270-55-1 .
  • Dieter Brandlein, Wilhelm Brandlein: Euerbach . History of a Franconian knight village. Euerbach community, Euerbach 2008.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.schweinfurt-evangelisch.de/dekan
  2. ↑ Numbers / facts Deanery Schweinfurt
  3. ^ Historical Atlas of Bavaria, Franconia, Series II, Book 3, The Grafschaft Castell at the end of the old Empire, Munich 1955, p. 10.
  4. ^ Historical Atlas of Bavaria, Franconia, Series I, Issue 36, Kissingen, Munich 2009, p. 352.