Bad Urach church district

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Basic data
Regional Church : Evangelical Church in Württemberg
Prelature : Reutlingen
Area : 275 km²
Structure: 27 parishes
Parishioners: approx. 42,000 (2005)
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Location of the former church district Bad Urach within the Evang. Regional Church in Württemberg

The Evangelical Church District Bad Urach (until 1994 Evangelical Church District Urach ) was one of 48 church districts or church districts of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg . His area was congruent with the dean's office Bad Urach.

On December 1, 2013, the church district merged with the Münsingen church district and merged into the Bad Urach-Münsingen church district .

geography

The church district Bad Urach comprised the northeast of the district of Reutlingen , i.e. the area of ​​the political cities and communities Bad Urach , Dettingen an der Erms , Grabenstetten , Hülben , Metzingen , St. Johann (without the district Ohnastetten), Reutlingen (only districts Mittelstadt and Reicheneck ), Riederich and Römerstein , also Bempflingen and the district of Kappishäuser of the city of Neuffen (both district of Esslingen ) and Westerheim (Württemberg) ( Alb-Danube district ).

Neighboring church districts

The church district Bad Urach bordered the following church districts (beginning in the east) Münsingen and Reutlingen (both prelature Reutlingen ) and Nürtingen and Kirchheim unter Teck (both prelature Stuttgart ).

history

The area of ​​the deanery or church district Bad Urach belongs to the old heartland of Württemberg, which introduced the Reformation from 1534, so that the area is almost entirely evangelical. Soon after the introduction of the Reformation, Urach became the seat of a deanery, then a superintendent, which belonged to the general superintendent in Denkendorf. In 1711 a separate deanery was established in Pfullingen, to which some parishes of the deanery Urach were assigned. When it was dissolved in 1817, the communities were attached to the newly established Reutlingen deanery, which had meanwhile come to Württemberg. From 1810 the dean's office in Urach belonged to the General Superintendenz Urach and from 1823 to the General Superintendenz (today Prelature) Reutlingen, to which it belongs almost continuously to this day. Only between 1933 and 1956 did it belong to the Ludwigsburg Prelature .

As a result of the dissolution of some districts or higher offices in Württemberg in 1939, the church administrative districts were also partially restructured. With effect from April 1, 1939, the parish of Trailfingen was reclassified to the parish of Münsingen and the parishes of Ohnastetten and Sondelfingen to the parish of Reutlingen.

After awarding the title “Bad” to the city of Urach with effect from July 1, 1983, the Urach church district also changed its name to “Bad Urach church district” with effect from March 14, 1994.

Head of the church district

The church district was headed by the district synod , the church district committee (KBA) and the dean. The last dean from 1998 was Harald Klingler (* 1950), who was also one of the pastors at the Amandus Church in Bad Urach.

Deans of the Bad Urach church district since 1788

  • 1788–1808 Christoph Ferdinand Gros
  • 1808–1826 Nathanael Köstlin
  • 1826–1850 Johann Ludwig Ziegler
  • 1851–1861 Christian Friedrich Dörner
  • 1861–1866 Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Demmler
  • 1866–1889 Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhn (1815–1891)
  • 1890–1898 Paul Lang
  • 1898–1910 Willi August Stahlecker
  • 1910–1922 Karl Ziegler
  • 1922–1929 Albert Leube
  • 1929–1936 Martin Ott
  • 1937–1951 Dr. Fisherman
  • 1951–1969 Karl Vöhringer (* 1905)
  • 1969–1976 Eugen Hauff (1911–2001)
  • 1976–1992 Samuel Schwarz (* 1929)
  • 1992–1998 Helmut Sorg (* 1935)
  • 1998–2013 Harald Klingler (* 1950)

Parishes

There were a total of 27 parishes in the Bad Urach church district. Of these, five parishes had merged to form a total of two total parishes, but remained independent corporations under public law.

The area of ​​the Bad Urach church district is predominantly evangelical. There is therefore a Protestant parish and mostly an old church in almost every village. In most places Catholics did not move in until after the Second World War.

The following parishes belonged to the district:

  • Bad Urach parish
    • Amandus parish Bad Urach
    • Parish Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Haus Bad Urach
  • Parish of Bempflingen
  • Parish of Bleichstetten
  • Parish of Böhringen
  • Parish of Dettingen an der Erms
  • Parish of Donnstetten-Westerheim
  • Parish of Gächingen
  • Parish of Glems
  • Grabenstetten parish
  • Grafenberg parish
  • Hengen parish
  • Parish of Hülben
  • Parish of Lonsingen
  • General parish of Metzingen
    • Martinskirchengemeinde Metzingen
    • Peace parish Metzingen
    • Neugreuth parish of Metzingen
  • Mittelstadt parish
  • Parish Neuhausen an der Erms
  • Reicheneck parish
  • Riederich parish
  • Seeburg parish
  • Parish of Sirchingen
  • Parish of Upfingen
  • Parish of Wittlingen
  • Parish of Würtingen
  • Parish of Zainingen

literature

  • The Evangelical Württemberg - Its church offices and clergy from the Reformation to the present, collected and edited by Christian Sigel, pastor in Gebersheim, 1910
  • The state of Baden-Wuerttemberg - official description according to districts and municipalities (in eight volumes); Edited by the Baden-Württemberg State Archives Department; Volume VII: Tübingen District, Stuttgart, 1978, ISBN 3-17-004807-4