Evangelical Foundation Care Schönau
The Evangelische Stiftung Pflege Schönau (ESPS) is a church foundation under public law based in Heidelberg . She is the legal successor to the "Unterländer Evangelical Church Fund", which goes back to the administration of the property of the 1558 abolished Schönau monastery established in 1560 . Your task today is the construction maintenance of 85 churches and 41 parsonages in the area of the Evangelical Church in Baden . The care ( care is used here in the sense of care ) Schönau administers and represents the Evangelische Pfarrpfründestiftung Baden , formerly "Evangelische Zentralpfarrkasse", which finances 40 to 45 parish positions in Baden . Ingo Strugalla is the board of directors and there is also a board of trustees.
Emergence
Unterländer Evangelical Church Fund
Elector Ottheinrich resulted in the Palatinate , the Reformation and certain testamentary that the income should be from church property used only for religious purposes. When his successor, Elector Friedrich III. 1560 finally abolished all monasteries, he therefore appointed a caretaker over the assets of the Schönau monastery , who had to use the proceeds to maintain certain churches and parsonages. With changing names and management structures, a separate ecclesiastical, but for a long time cross-denominational asset management was created.
In 1697 and 1803, the Schönau nursing home in the area on the left bank of the Rhine suffered severe financial losses. In 1803 the division of the Palatinate church property between Catholics and Protestants was completed, with the property of the former Schönau monastery being added to the Reformed. In 1821 they brought this “Unterländer Evangelical Church Fund” into the newly founded, uniate Evangelical Church in Baden . There, the property of the Evangelical Church Schaffnei Rheinbischofsheim and the Evangelical Stiftschaffnei Lahr were also subordinated to the care Schönau. This property is also burdened with building obligations.
Evangelical Central Parish Fund
In 1881 the ecclesiastical institution under public law "Evangelical Central Parish Fund" was founded. It summarizes the beneficiary assets of 475 Protestant parishes, i.e. local church property that is dedicated to the salary of the respective pastor.
The administration of the institution was entrusted to the Care Schönau.
Evangelical Foundation Care Schönau
On July 1, 2003, the Unterländer Evangelical Church Fund and the Evangelical Central Parish Fund became legally independent foundations. Since then, they have been called the Evangelical Foundation Care Schönau or Evangelical Parish Foundation Baden. The foundation has branches in Freiburg and Mosbach.
capital
The two foundations together have 14,000 hectares of land, including large forest areas such as the community-free area of Michelbuch near Neckarsteinach . It employs around 90 people. Care Schönau is the largest leaseholder in Germany.
meaning
While church property was secularized in many other areas , it was never fully incorporated into the state in the Electoral Palatinate. So the church property came back to the church and the building and salary obligations on the property do not affect the state today, which would have resulted in state benefits in considerable amounts.
For the Evangelical Church in Baden and the local parishes , the maintenance of the building by the Care Schönau is a considerable help. The pooling of beneficiary assets in the Pfarrpfründestiftung enables effective asset management and relieves the church staff budget through its income.
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Footnotes
- ↑ https://www.esp-schoenau.de/stiftung/organe
- ↑ Thank goodness - brand eins online. Retrieved May 15, 2020 .