Church district Marbach
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| Regional Church : | Evangelical Church in Württemberg |
| Prelature : | Stuttgart |
| Area : | km² |
| Structure: | 19 parishes |
| Parishioners: | 37,213 (December 31, 2018) |
| Address of the Dean's Office : |
Uhlandstrasse 9 71672 Marbach am Neckar |
| Dean : | Ekkehard Graf |
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The Evangelical Church District Marbach is one of 44 church districts or parishes of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg . Its area is congruent with the dean's office in Marbach .
geography
The church district of Marbach is located in the northern center of the Württemberg regional church. Its area includes the northeast of the Ludwigsburg district , i.e. the area of the political cities and communities Affalterbach , Benningen am Neckar , Erdmannhausen , Großbottwar , Marbach am Neckar , Mundelsheim , Murr , Oberstenfeld , Pleidelsheim and Steinheim an der Murr , as well as the community Abstatt , which City of Beilstein and the district of Auenstein in the community of Ilsfeld (all district of Heilbronn ) and the community of Kirchberg an der Murr in the Rems-Murr district .
Neighboring church districts
The Marbach church district borders on the following church districts (starting clockwise in the northwest): Heilbronn , Weinsberg , Backnang and Waiblingen (all Heilbronn prelature) as well as Ludwigsburg and Besigheim (both Stuttgart prelature).
history
The Marbach dean's office (then called Spezialsuperintendentur) was founded in 1547, a few years after the Reformation was introduced in Württemberg. It is one of the oldest deaneries of the Württemberg regional church. From 1577 it belonged to the Adelberg Generalate and from 1810 to the Heilbronn Generalate, from which today's Heilbronn Prelature emerged . From 1992 to 2003 the Deanery Marbach belonged to the Prelature of Ludwigsburg , and since then to the Prelature of Stuttgart . The area of the Deanery Marbach was essentially congruent with the Oberamt Marbach , which was abolished in 1938.
As a result of this dissolution, which went hand in hand with the dissolution of further districts or higher offices in Württemberg in 1939, the church administrative districts were also partially reorganized. With effect from April 1, 1939, the parishes of Erbstetten and Kleinaspach were reclassified to the church district of Backnang. Until 1954 the parish of Burgstall and until 1989 the parish of Weiler zum Stein belonged to the parish of Marbach. By the announcement of the Oberkirchenrat on April 13, 1954, the Burgstall parish was also reclassified to the Backnang parish and, with effect from January 1, 1990, the Weiler zum Stein parish was reclassified to the Waiblingen parish.
Head of the church district
The church district is managed by the district synod , the church district committee (KBA) and the dean. The current dean has been Ekkehard Graf since 2018, who is also one of the pastors in Marbach am Neckar . Reiner Knödler from Auenstein has been the chairman of the district synod of the Marbach church district since 2014.
Deans of the Marbach church district
- 1804–1828 Johann Friedrich Roos
- 1829–1851 August Ludwig Schelling
- 1851–1862 Christian Friedrich Kling
- 1862–1863 Karl Friedrich Schelling
- 1863–1869 Georg Heinrich von Merz (1816–1893)
- 1869–1894 Reinhard Friedrich Härlin
- 1895–1904 Richard Georg Albert Färber
- 1904–1911 Karl Wunderlich
- 1911–1924 Reinhold Vollmer (1866–1946)
- 1925–1933 Emil Mildenberger
- 1933–1947 Heinrich Pfisterer (1877–1947)
- 1947–1960 Otto Gruber (1896–1970)
- 1960–1972 Heinz Dauber (1911–1997)
- 1972–1980 Gerhard Müller (1923–1980)
- 1981–1991 Friedrich Necker (1928–2015)
- 1991-2005 Otto Ziegler (* 1941)
- 2005–2018 Heinz-Werner Neudorfer (* 1952)
- since 2018 Ekkehard Graf (* 1967)
Parishes
There are a total of 19 parishes in the Marbach church district. There are no longer general parishes here. Up to 2005 there were still 21 parishes, since then there have been mergers. The parish numbers given in brackets after the name of the parish relate to the year 2018 and have been rounded.
The area of the Marbach church district belongs to the old heartland of Württemberg, where the Reformation was introduced from 1534. Therefore, the entire area is predominantly evangelical. As a result, there is also a Protestant parish in every village and usually an old church. Catholics did not move to all places until after the Second World War.
Parish Abstatt
The Abstatt parish (approx. 1,600) comprises the main town of Abstatt in the Heilbronn district. The hamlets Happenbach and Vohenlohe belonging to Abstatt belong to the neighboring parishes Untergruppenbach and Unterheinriet (both church district Heilbronn). Abstatt was a branch of Ilsfeld until the Reformation, then of Auenstein. Today's Protestant St. Stephen 's Church was built in the Baroque style in 1766 and renovated in 1899 after a fire. In essence, however, the church is of an older date. The place later received its own parish and has probably formed its own parish since the end of the 19th century.
Affalterbach parish
The Affalterbach parish (approx. 1,780) includes the Affalterbach parish . The church dedicated to St. Martin is a medieval fortified church. The basement of the tower dates from the 11th / 12th centuries. Century, the choir is late Gothic, the nave is partly older. There are wall paintings inside. In 1765 the church was expanded.
Parish of Auenstein
The parish of Auenstein (approx. 1,230) comprises the district of Auenstein of the community of Ilsfeld in the Heilbronn district with the hamlet Abstetterhof , which until 1935 belonged to the Großbottwar district of Winzerhausen and was detached from the parish of Winzerhausen with effect from April 1, 1936 and assigned to the parish of Auenstein .
Until 1938 Auenstein belonged to the Marbach District Office. The main town of Ilsfeld and the district of Schozach form the parish of Ilsfeld in the Heilbronn church district. These two places belonged to the Oberamt Besigheim until 1938. Auenstein used to be a subsidiary of Ilsfeld. A chapel of St. Jacob was first mentioned in 1453. After the Reformation, Auenstein received its own pastor. The current church was only built in 1832 and renovated in 1968/69.
Until 1971 Wüstenhausen (Ilsfeld municipality) also belonged to the Auenstein parish. With effect from December 5, 1971, Wüstenhausen was reclassified to the Heilbronn church district and assigned to the parish Untergruppenbach.
Beilstein-Billensbach parish
The parish of Beilstein-Billensbach (approx. 2,500) includes the town of Beilstein with all the associated hamlets in the district of Heilbronn, whereby the district of Schmidhausen was only reclassified from the parish of Gronau to the then existing parish of Beilstein following the announcement of the Upper Church Council on May 26, 1983. The oldest church in Beilstein is likely to have been the church on the Wunnenstein , which came to the Johanniter in 1300 . The first parish church until after 1600 was the Magdalenenkirche, built in the early Gothic style below the Beilstein Castle. This was renewed in 1742, but profaned in 1803, and today serves as a scout home. Today's parish church in Beilstein is the late Gothic St. Anne's Church that emerged from the Nikolauskapelle and was formerly outside the city.
Although Beilstein was the seat of an upper office in Württemberg until 1810, there was no deanery here. Rather, the city belonged to the dean's office Marbach from 1547. From 1747 to 1810 the city was assigned to the Deanery Lauffen, after which it came back to the Deanery Marbach.
Until 1928, the parcels of Obere and Untere Ölmühle also belonged to the Beilstein parish. On May 10, 1928, the Upper Church Council announced that the Upper Oil Mill was assigned to the Prevorst parish and the Lower Oil Mill to the Gronau parish.
The Beilstein parish hall was built in the 1970s and is named Valentin-Wanner-Haus after the Beilstein reformer. In 2007 the parish hall was completely renovated and expanded.
For the hamlets of Etzlensendung , Kaisersbach, Billensbach , Klingen, Maad, Jettenbach and Gagernberg, some of which belonged to the former community of Schmidhausen (today incorporated into Beilstein), a separate church, the Johanneskirche , was built in Billensbach in 1956 , and its own parish administration was established. The seven hamlets were merged with the announcement of the upper church council of November 16, 1962 to form the independent branch parish of Billensbach of the mother parish of Beilstein after the Ministry of Education recognized the branch parish of Billensbach as a public corporation in a letter of March 19, 1962. By the announcement of the Oberkirchenrat on July 15, 1965, the Filialkirchengemeinde Billensbach was separated from the mother parish Beilstein and raised to an independent parish. The parish of Billensbach also built its own rectory in Billensbach. Up until 1992 there was still a total church congregation consisting of Beilstein and Billensbach on paper , but this had no functions and did not influence the complete independence of both individual congregations. After the upper church council had stipulated savings, the two parishes again merged on January 1, 2006 to form today's parish of Beilstein-Billensbach. The nationwide cut in parish posts in 2018 affected the Billensbach parish, which was not reoccupied. Since then, the Beilstein pastor has been responsible for the entire municipality of Beilstein-Billensbach.
Parish of Benningen / Neckar
The parish of Benningen / Neckar (approx. 2,300) includes the parish of Benningen am Neckar . The church, formerly consecrated to St. Anna, came from Countess Katharina von Veringen to the Counts of Württemberg and in 1473 to the Backnang Abbey. The church has a late Gothic nave and a Romanesque choir tower.
Until 1989 the parishes of Benningen / Neckar belonged to the parish of Ludwigsburg. The parish of Benningen / Neckar was reclassified to the parish of Marbach through an announcement by the Upper Church Council on March 20, 1989.
Erdmannhausen parish
The Erdmannhausen parish (approx. 2,100) includes the Erdmannhausen parish . The church, mentioned as Januarius Church , was owned by the Murrhardt Monastery . It is essentially an early Gothic fortification.
Parish of Gronau
The parish of Gronau (approx. 800) includes the district Gronau of the parish of Oberstenfeld (district of Ludwigsburg) and the parcel of Untere Ölmühle, which was reclassified here from the parish of Beilstein by the notice of the upper church council on May 10, 1928. A Cyriakus church was mentioned in Gronau as early as 846/76. She has been Protestant since the Reformation. The church was rebuilt in 1599 and last restored in 1965/67. The tower is still early Gothic.
The neighboring village of Schmidhausen , in which there is no church, has belonged to the parish from the earliest times . Through the announcement of the Oberkirchenrat on May 26, 1983, Schmidhausen was assigned to the parish of Beilstein (today Beilstein-Billensbach) - in the meantime already incorporated into the city of Beilstein as part of the municipal reform .
Parish Großbottwar
The parish of Großbottwar (approx. 3,900) comprises the core town and the districts of Hof, Lembach and Winzerhausen of the town of Großbottwar .
The church in Großbottwar, consecrated to St. Martin, was first mentioned in 1279. It belonged to the Murrhardt Monastery. It has an early Gothic reticulated east choir tower and a nave that was rebuilt in a classicist style in 1791/92. Since December 2009 she also has a new organ . The Martinskirche used to stand outside the wall ring of the Großbottwar old town. The All Saints Chapel, the nave of which was demolished and rebuilt in 1755, was located within the wall ring. There was a Frauenkirche in the cemetery, first mentioned in 1354 and demolished in 1710.
In the Middle Ages, Winzerhausen belonged to the Michaelskirche on the Wunnenstein . In 1556 the place got its own church. Today Michael Church was 1832/34 as Cross Church in Kameralamtsstil built. The Abstetterhof , which then belonged to Winzerhausen, was assigned to the neighboring parish of Auenstein with effect from April 1, 1936; Today the hamlet Abstetterhof is also part of the community of Ilsfeld , to which Auenstein also belongs.
On January 1, 2017, the parishes of Großbottwar and Winzerhausen were dissolved. In the area of the two dissolved parishes, a new parish of Großbottwar was formed at the same time. There are two parish offices in the parish.
Parish of Höpfigheim
The parish of Höpfigheim (approx. 1,000) comprises the Höpfigheim district of the city of Steinheim an der Murr. The Georgskirche was owned by the Lords of Sachsenheim . It was built around 1490 as a choir tower church. It has grave monuments from the 16th century.
Parish Kirchberg / Murr
The parish of Kirchberg / Murr (approx. 1,800) includes the parish of Kirchberg an der Murr (without Wüstenbachhof) in the Rems-Murr district. The Wüstenbachhof was reclassified to the church district of Backnang by an announcement of the upper church council on January 29, 1971 and assigned to the parish of Großaspach. The church consecrated to St. Boniface was first mentioned in 1247. She is later called St. Luke. In 1453, the church set reached the Backnang Abbey via the Oberstenfeld Abbey. Protestant since 1534. The former Gothic parish church was changed in 1778 and 1905. The tower dates from 1779. 1961 Removal of the Art Nouveau art elements. 1982 An anteroom was added. Fundamental interior renovation in 2006/07.
Parish Kleinbottwar
The parish Kleinbottwar (approx. 750) includes the Kleinbottwar district of the town of Steinheim an der Murr. The place belonged ecclesiastically until the end of the 15th century partly to Großbottwar, partly to Steinheim. In 1499 the place became churchly independent through the Lords of Plieningen. A chapel is mentioned as early as 1443. In place of the chapel, today's church was built, which was consecrated to St. George. The Georgskirche has a carved and winged altar, which was built around 1520. The second pastor of the Steinheim parish is in charge of official business in Kleinbottwar, but lives in Steinheim.
Parish of Marbach
The parish of Marbach (approx. 4,300) comprises the core city of Marbach , including the Hörnle district. The parish has four preaching positions. The Alexander Church, in which the regular main services take place on Sundays and public holidays in the summer half-year, and the city church, in which the main services are celebrated in the winter half-year. Furthermore, the Martin Luther House as a "winter church" from January to March and the parish room in the east pastor's office, where morning services take place every two weeks. The Alexander Church was the actual parish church of Marbach until the Reformation. The first clergyman in Marbach was named as early as 972. The Alexander Church is one of the largest late Gothic hall churches in southern Germany. The choir was built around 1450 by Aberlin Jörg, the nave in 1463 and the tower in 1481. After the Reformation, the parish rights were gradually transferred to today's town church, which was previously a Früßmess chapel for Our Lady. Today's town church was rebuilt in a different form after the town fire of 1693. In 1966 it was completely renovated. There is also a Wendelin Chapel at the Upper Gate from 1433, which was profaned during the Reformation and which now houses a bookshop and gallery.
Since the Reformation, Marbach had two pastors, one of whom was also the dean as a supervisor for the pastors of the deanery. There have been three pastors since 1966, four since 1982, and only three since 2011. Today the dean works in the parish of Marbach-Mitte and Hörnle. Further parish offices in the parish of Marbach are the parish office Marbach West and the parish office Marbach East.
The Marbach parish also runs three kindergartens: Martin Luther Kindergarten (founded in 1874), Ottilie Wildermuth Kindergarten (founded in 1959) and Pestalozzi Kindergarten (founded in 1961). There has been a church choir since 1903 (approx. 50 members) and a trombone choir (approx. 25 members) since 1906.
With effect from November 12, 1989 the previously sole parish of Marbach was divided into the city parish of Marbach and the Christophorus parish of Marbach-Hörnle. At the same time the overall parish of Marbach, consisting of the two new parishes, was formed. The Christophorus House of the same name in the Hörnle district served as the place of worship for the Christophorus parish. With effect from November 1, 1995, the Christophorus parish Marbach-Hörnle and the entire parish of Marbach were dissolved again. The area of the Christophorus parish Marbach-Hörnle was incorporated into the city parish of Marbach, which at the same time (again) was renamed “Parish Marbach”.
Parish of Mundelsheim
The parish of Mundelsheim (approx. 1,670) includes the parish of Mundelsheim . The original parish church for Mundelsheim and the defunct Tiefenbach was the church in the cemetery, dedicated to St. Kilian . After the destruction, the church was rebuilt in 1440. It is a choir tower church with ribbed vaults with wall paintings around 1480. The church contains numerous grave monuments from the 15th to 17th centuries. The present parish church is dedicated to St.. Nicholas consecrated church in the town center. It was just a chapel until the Reformation. It is a late Gothic choir tower. A castle chapel named in 1663 has gone.
Parish of Murr an der Murr
The church community Murr an der Murr (approx. 2,450) includes the community Murr . The church consecrated to St. Peter was built in the late Gothic period, the east tower probably as early as the 14th century, but there was probably a church from Carolingian times before that.
Parish of Oberstenfeld
The parish of Oberstenfeld (approx. 2,700) comprises the core of the municipality of Oberstenfeld . The Gallus Church was the original parish church of the place. This was rebuilt in 1738. Around 1016 a monastery was founded in Oberstenfeld, whose church, consecrated to St. Mary, Johannes Baptist and Blasius, became the local parish church. The Gallus Church sank down to the chapel. The main parts of today's collegiate church date from the 13th century. It is a three-aisled basilica with an east choir tower. The crypt is from the previous church. To the northwest of today's town, St. Peter's Church was built in the Romanesque style in the 11th century. It was the parish church of the later abandoned settlement of Kratzheim. There are wall paintings from the 13th century in the ship. There was a castle chapel at Lichtenberg Castle, which was always a branch of Großbottwar.
In all churches there are regular services of the Protestant parish. The Peterskirche is the place for early services from April to October. The main church services take place in the collegiate church in summer and in the village church in winter.
Pastors of the parish of Oberstenfeld are currently Martha and John Walter Siebert.
Parish of Pleidelsheim
The parish of Pleidelsheim (approx. 2,050) includes the parish of Pleidelsheim . The church dedicated to St. Mauritius is mentioned for the first time in 1300. Via the Lords of Urbach, the church set came to the Salve Regina brotherhood in Stuttgart in 1436 and to the Stuttgart hospital in 1480. In 1587 a chapel of St. Anna is mentioned. Today's parish church is a former fortified church with a mighty east tower of Romanesque origin. The ship was built in 1586. In 1586 the church was rebuilt and widened.
Parish Prevorst
The parish of Prevorst (approx. 280) comprises the district of Prevorst of the parish of Oberstenfeld and the parcel of Obere Ölmühle, which was reclassified here from the parish of Beilstein by an announcement by the Upper Church Council on May 10, 1928. The place Prevorst, always belonging to the municipality of Gronau, got its own parish in 1900 and in 1901 also its own church, which was built in the neo-Gothic style. Prevorst became known nationwide through Friederike Hauffe, born here . Wanner, who is known through Justinus Kerner as the "Seer of Prevorst".
Parish Rielingshausen
The parish of Rielingshausen (approx. 1,150) comprises the Rielingshausen district of the city of Marbach am Neckar. The church consecrated to St. Peter came from Württemberg to Backnang Abbey in 1453. The current church was rebuilt in 1811 in place of the old church. Only the lower part of the late Gothic tower, which was raised in 1780, remained. The important Württemberg theologian and revival preacher Ludwig Hofacker worked in Rielingshausen from 1826 to 1828.
Church community Steinheim an der Murr
The parish of Steinheim an der Murr (approx. 3,200) includes the core town of Steinheim an der Murr . The church consecrated to St. Martin was given to the Mariental Monastery (Steinheim an der Murr) in the late Middle Ages . It is a Romanesque basilica that was modified in the Gothic period. The choir is vaulted with ribs. The monastery itself was closed by Württemberg in 1553 after the Reformation. Except for a few remains, the monastery complex was lost in a fire in 1643. Two pastors perform the parish service here, the second pastor also providing the parish Kleinbottwar.
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 III: District Stuttgart - Regional Association Middle Neckar, Stuttgart, 1978, ISBN 3-17-004758-2 and Volume IV: District Stuttgart - Regional Associations Franconia and East Wuerttemberg, Stuttgart, 1980, ISBN 3-17-005708-1 .
Web links
- Internet presence of the Evangelical Church District Marbach
- Internet presence of the Evangelical Church Community of Beilstein-Billensbach
- Internet presence of the Evangelical Church Community in Marbach
- Internet presence of the Evangelical Church Community Murr an der Murr
- Internet presence of the Evangelical Church Community Oberstenfeld
- Internet presence of the Evangelical Church Community Steinheim an der Murr
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website of the parish of Beilstein-Billensbach on the parish hall. Retrieved May 19, 2016 .
- ↑ Official Journal, Vol. 67, No. 15 of March 31, 2017, p. 362