Evangelical Church Worms-Leiselheim

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View from the west

The Evangelical Church of Worms-Leiselheim is located at the eastern entrance to the village. Leiselheim is a western suburb of Worms .

prehistory

The Augsburg Religious Peace of 1555 also meant that Leiselheim had to accept the faith prescribed by the respective prince. But every change of ruler (through marriage, sale, consequence of war) means a change of religion for the inhabitants. - It was not until Count Palatine Karl Ludwig (1649–1680) allowed deviating faiths that calm returned: Leiselheim was now a mixed faith community in which the Protestants ( Lutherans and Reformed ) formed the majority.

Protestant churches in Leiselheim

Church division

Until the church was split up (1705), the cemetery church ( St. Laurentius ) existed in Leiselheim and was used by all Christian denominations, which was not without disputes. The church was the successor to a church from the late 14th century. When the Reformation took hold, it became the joint property and simultaneous church of the Roman Catholic and Reformed congregations. With the transfer of local rule from the Electoral Palatinate to the Bishopric of Worms and the almost simultaneous abolition of the Electoral Palatinate Simultaneum in the years 1706 and 1707, the church came into the sole possession of the Roman Catholic community by drawing lots. This result aroused great astonishment, since at that time only 3 of 63 Leiselheim families were Catholic.

Prayer house

The Lutherans had already set up a house of prayer in Tränkstrasse earlier , which the residents referred to as the “Lutheran Church” . The Reformed had to look for a new place to stay and first found it in the town hall. - But 10 years later (1716) they were able to build a church.

Protestant church

View from the eastern entrance to the village

Since the ecclesiastical union in 1822, the Reformed and Lutherans have shared one church, the Reformed church, which has undergone multiple alterations, extensions and renovations and which was listed in 1998 . It is "the characteristic type of the reformed regional church in the former Electoral Palatinate" .

Pastor

The pastors of Hochheim, Neuhausen and later also of Pfiffligheim were administered together with Leiselheim. It was not until 1957 that Leiselheim's own parish vicarage was set up, which in 1970 became an independent parish office.

Pastor in Leiselheim since 1957
Parish vicars Heinebach 1957-1958 Dittmann 1959-1960
Parish vicars Lichtenthäler 1960-1961 Bitsch 1961–1962
Parish vicars Goebel 1962-1963 Squat 1963-1964
Parish vicars Petersen 1964-1966 Dr. Schirmer 1966-1967
Parish vicar Hope 1967-1968
Parish administrator Kiss man 1970-1973 Dr. Burger 1973-1974
Parish administrator Dietermann 1976-1979 Koob 1982-1983
Parish administrator Fisherman 1985-1989 from 1989 owner of the parish office

As can be seen from the table, there were some vacancies (1975, 1980, 1981). Pastor Klaus Fischer has also been responsible for Pfiffligheim since 2012.

Views inside

  • organ

  • Sanctuary

  • altar

  • Window for the fallen of the First World War

Web links

Commons : Protestant Church (Worms-Leiselheim)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Regionalgeschichte.net: On the history of Leiselheim. Accessed October 16, 2009
  2. ↑ a b Eugen Schüler - Richard Rochy, WORMS-LEISELHEIM - Ortschronik, edition from 2001, p. 193 ff. Evangelical Church from 1716
  3. ↑ http://www.gdke-rlp.de/ ,> Kulturdenkmäler RLP> District-Free Cities> Worms, p. 18
  4. ^ Eugen Schüler - Richard Rochy, WORMS-LEISELHEIM - Ortschronik, 2001 edition, p. 188 ff. Church life in Leiselheim

Coordinates: 49 ° 38 ′ 29.5 "  N , 8 ° 18 ′ 36.9"  E