Evangelical Lutheran deanery in Weiden in the Upper Palatinate

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Evangelical Lutheran
Dean's Office
organization
Deanery district Willows in the Upper Palatinate
Church district regensburg
Regional church Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria
statistics
Parishes 24
Parishes 35
management
dean Wenrich Slenczka
Address of the Dean's Office Pfarrplatz 6
92637 Weiden
Web presence www.dekanat-weiden-evangelisch.de

The Evangelical Lutheran deanery in Weiden in the Upper Palatinate is one of the eight deanery districts of the Regensburg church district . The district is currently headed by Dean Wenrich Slenczka.

The district is located in the northern part of the Upper Palatinate. Politically, the parishes are located in the districts of Neustadt an der Waldnaab and Tirschenreuth , as well as in the independent city of Weiden in the Upper Palatinate .

history

In addition to diaspora communities, there are also communities that have existed since the Reformation. The Duchy of Palatinate-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 ruled area also included Erbendorf , Floß with the Flossenbürg branch , Kaltenbrunn with Freihung and Thannsüß , Kohlberg with Etzenricht , Neunkirchen and Mantel , Plößberg with Püchersreuth , Schönkirch and Wildenau , Wilchenreuth with Rothenstadt , Vohenstrauss . Evangelical preaching began in St. Michael in Weiden as early as 1522. The Reformation arrived in Thumsenreuth and Krummennaab around 1540, in Wildenreuth and Kirchdemenreuth around 1550. There the church patrons were with the manors. During the Thirty Years War the Counter Reformation took place . As a result of the Peace of Westphalia , re-Catholic areas that were Protestant in the normal year 1624 became Protestant again in many places. It was restored in 1649. As a special feature, the Simultaneum was introduced in the Upper Palatinate areas and largely dissolved again in the 20th century: Erbendorf (1663–1923), Floß (1653–1913), Kaltenbrunn (1663), Kohlberg (1663), Mantel (1663–1899), Neunkirchen (1663–1910), Plößberg (1653–1911), Rothenstadt (1653–1909), Thumsenreuth (1663), Vohenstrauß (1653–1928), Weiden (1663–1900), Wilchenreuth (1653– 1909), Wildenreuth (1663) and Wildenau (1663–1911).

Neustadt am Kulm and Wirbenz were in the area of ​​the Margraviate of Brandenburg-Kulmbach and became Protestant in 1529. In 1840 they came to the dean's office in Weiden.

New communities in the diaspora are Eschenbach in der Oberpfalz (1928), Grafenwöhr (1917), Mitterteich (1899), Neustadt an der Waldnaab (1950), Tirschenreuth (1913), Waldsassen (1859), Windischeschenbach (1928).

Parishes

For deanery district Weiden includes 35 parishes in 24 parishes. The parishes, their parishes and churches are listed below.

literature

  • Evangelical Lutheran Deanery Weiden in the Upper Palatinate , Erlanger Verlag für Mission und Ökumene, Erlangen, 1982.
  • Historical Atlas of Bavaria Ecclesiastical organization, the Protestant Church, Komm. Für Bayer. Regional history, Munich 1960.

Web links

Commons : Churches in Evangelical Lutheran Deanery Weiden  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://dekanat-weiden.mws3.de/dekan