Evangelical Lutheran Dean's Office Sulzbach-Rosenberg
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 Christ Church in Sulzbach-Rosenberg |
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| Deanery district | Sulzbach-Rosenberg |
| Church district | regensburg |
| Regional church | Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria |
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| surface | 2047 km² |
| Parishes | 20th |
| Parishes | 24 |
| Parishioners | 38,000 |
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| dean | Karlhermann Schötz |
| Dean's Church | Christ Church, Sulzbach-Rosenberg |
| Address of the Dean's Office | Pfarrplatz 6 92237 Sulzbach-Rosenberg |
| Web presence | www.dekanat-sulzbach-rosenberg.de |
The Evangelical Lutheran Deanery Sulzbach-Rosenberg is one of the eight deanery districts of the Regensburg church district . The Dean's District is currently headed by Dean Karlhermann Schötz.
geography
The Sulzbach-Rosenberg dean's office comprises three regions. The far west is still shaped by the Franconian Switzerland . The old duke town of Sulzbach is located in the center of the western deanery district. This area has been shaped by mining and metallurgy for centuries . In the middle is Amberg , the former royal residence of the Upper Palatinate. The east around Schwandorf is a diaspora area .
history
The Duchy of Pfalz-Neuburg was established in 1505 after the Landshut War of Succession . Count Palatine Ottheinrich had the Reformation introduced on June 22, 1542 by edict . The Principality of Palatinate-Sulzbach also belonged to his dominion, as a result of which the area around Sulzbach-Rosenberg has remained predominantly Protestant to this day. The Upper Palatinate in Amberg was connected to the Electoral Palatinate during the Reformation . This leads to the introduction of the reformed faith by Elector Friedrich III in 1567 . After 1576, his successor, Elector Ludwig IV, reintroduced the Lutheran faith. After his death in 1583, the Reformed Confession was enforced again by force. On May 23, 1614, Count Palatine Wolfgang Wilhelm converted to the Catholic faith. According to an edict of December 25, 1615, the population was "allowed" to convert to the Catholic faith. After the Battle of White Mountain , the Palatinate lost its electoral dignity and the Upper Palatinate. This enabled the Counter Reformation to move in in 1626. As a result of the Peace of Westphalia , re-Catholic areas that were Protestant in the normal year 1624 were generally Protestant again. In 1650 there were 51 Catholic and 200 Protestant families in Sulzbach. In the Cologne comparison of 1652, for dynastic considerations, Count Palatine Christian August, in coordination with his Catholic cousin Wolfgang Wilhelm, introduced the Simultaneum, which still exists in some churches to this day. On October 2, 1957, the Simultaneum in the old parish church in Sulzbach was dissolved, as the Protestant community built its own church, the Christ Church .
Parishes
For deanery district consists of 24 parishes in 20 parishes.
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literature
- Evangelical Luth. Deanery Sulzbach-Rosenberg , Erlanger Verlag für Mission und Ökumene, Erlangen, 1990.
- Historical Atlas of Bavaria Ecclesiastical organization, the Protestant Church, Komm. Für Bayer. Regional history, Munich 1960.
- Historical Atlas of Bavaria Altbayern Series I, Issue 10: Sulzbach, Komm. Für Bayer. National history, 1957.
