General Diocese of Alfeld

General superintendent in Alfeld with its special superintendent in the Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel church ordinance of 1569

St. Nicolai in Alfeld, the sermon church of the general superintendent

The general diocese of Alfeld was an ecclesiastical supervisory district in the area of ​​today's Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Hanover . It was created in 1569 when the Lutheran regional church of the Principality of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel was reorganized . With the restitution of the Hildesheim Monastery in 1643, it was subordinated to the Lutheran consistory in Hildesheim, whose area of ​​responsibility was expanded to the Kingdom of Hanover and its regional church after 1802 ; only the administrative areas of Holzminden and Halle remained with Braunschweig.

The general superintendent was the owner of the first parish office and superintendent in Alfeld . The superintendents of the special dioceses in Halle, Holzminden, Wrisbergholzen ("Dietrichholtensen") and Lamspringe were assigned to him .

In 1818 the General Diocese of Alfeld was merged with the General Diocese of Bockenem to form the new General Diocese of Hildesheim . The seat remained in Alfeld until 1833 and was then moved to Elze and in 1853 to Hildesheim .

General superintendent

• 1569–1574: Nicolaus Erben
• 1574–1581: Esaias Krüger
• 1581–1596: Nicolaus Groscurdt
• 1596–1599: Andreas Leopoldi
• 1599–1623: Bartholomäus Sengbähr
• 1624–1648: Johannes Brüning
• 1648–1664: Achatius Mylius
• 1665–1669: Heinrich Martin Eccard
• 1670–1688: Johann Lucas Pestorf
• 1689–1718: Johann Sebastian Leopoldi
• 1718–1727: Johann Justus Berkelmann
• 1728–1733: Johannes Konrad Stephan Hölling
• 1733–1758: Heinrich Ernst Owen
• 1758–1778: Friedrich Andreas Crome
• 1779–1800: Christian Josua Leopold Illing
• 1800–1818: August Friedrich Brackmann

literature

• Philipp Meyer (Ed.): The pastors of the regional churches of Hanover and Schaumburg-Lippes since the Reformation . On behalf of the Hanover Regional Church Office on behalf of the Society for Church History of Lower Saxony in community with numerous employees. Volume 1: Abbensen to Junker-Wehningen . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1941, p. 11.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ They only came to the Province of Hanover and the Hanover State Church in 1941 with the Salzgitter Act ( map ).
2. ↑ church order Vnnser of God Genaden, Yuli, Hertzogen to Braunschweig Lueneburg vnd . Wolfenbüttel 1569, p. 246