Church district Stuttgart
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| Regional Church : | Evangelical Church in Württemberg |
| Prelature : | Stuttgart |
| Area : | km² |
| former structure: | 22 parishes |
| Parishioners: | approx. 53,100 (2005) |
| Address of the Dean's Office : |
Lessingstrasse 4 70174 Stuttgart |
| former dean : | Hans-Peter Ehrlich |
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The Evangelical Church District Stuttgart was one of the last 51 church districts or deaneries of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg . With effect from January 1, 2008 it was combined with the three other church districts of Stuttgart Bad Cannstatt , Degerloch and Zuffenhausen to form the church district of Stuttgart . However, the area of the Stuttgart church district continues to live as the Stuttgart deanery district within the Stuttgart church district.
In contrast to the other 50 church districts, the tasks of the Stuttgart church district were taken over by the “Gesamtkirchengemeinde Stuttgart” corporation until 2007, which continues to exist as such. However, their tasks for the Stuttgart church district were transferred to the Stuttgart church district as universal legal successors.
geography
The Stuttgart church district was in the middle of the Württemberg regional church. Its area essentially comprised the city center of Stuttgart, i.e. the districts center , north , south , east and west , as well as the Botnang district , the Haigst district ( Degerloch district ) and the Dachswald residential area ( Vaihingen district ).
Neighboring church districts
| Zuffenhausen | Zuffenhausen | |
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Leonberg (Reutlingen Prelature) |
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Bad Cannstatt |
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Böblingen (Reutlingen Prelature) |
Degerloch | Degerloch |
history
The Stuttgart deanery is one of the oldest in Württemberg, and was established around 1547, soon after the Reformation, under the name “Specialsuperintendenz” or “Superintendenz”. The first superintendent was Valentin Vannius (1495–1567). At that time, however, the supervisory office was not linked to a permanent preaching office. Rather, the Duke of Württemberg or the consistory appointed the superintendent as a supervisor. This was subordinate to the general superintendent in Maulbronn. From 1570 the hospital church became the seat of the Stuttgart superintendent. By royal decree of June 4, 1819, a separate superintendent was set up for the Stuttgart District Office, the superintendent of which was mainly based at the Leonhardskirche . From this superintendency for the district office, today's church district Degerloch emerged in 1938 .
The dean's office in Stuttgart has been under the general superintendency of Ludwigsburg since the 19th century and, from 1934, under the newly established Stuttgart prelature , which initially only included the church districts of Stuttgart, Bad Cannstatt and Plieningen (from 1938 Degerloch), but was later enlarged accordingly.
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 Kaltental parish was reclassified from the Plieningen / Degerloch parish to the Stuttgart parish.
After 1945 the first pastor at the Leonhardskirche in Stuttgart-Mitte was the respective city dean of Stuttgart, because the hospital church as the previous seat of the city dean was destroyed. Since 1970 the city dean has also been pastor at the Gedächtniskirche in Stuttgart-West.
In order to create a uniform church system within the city limits of Stuttgart, the Evangelical City Association of Stuttgart was founded in 1983 , to which the now four Stuttgart church districts of Stuttgart, Bad Cannstatt, Degerloch and Zuffenhausen belonged. The city association met once a year for a large gathering. The parishes and diaconal institutions in the city of Stuttgart (e.g. the “Evangelical Society” and the “House of the Family”) were represented with a seat and a vote. The city association was headed by an elected chairman, who was one of the four deans (since 1999 it was city dean Hans-Peter Ehrlich). On January 1, 2008, the four church districts and thus the Stuttgart City Association were combined into a single church district of Stuttgart . However, the previous four deaneries will continue to be used as supervisory districts for pastors and parishes.
Management of the entire parish or the church district
The management of the entire parish of Stuttgart is incumbent on the general parish council (this corresponded to the district synod ), the main committee (this corresponded to the church district committee) and the city dean . The last city dean of the Stuttgart church district since 1999 was Hans-Peter Ehrlich (* 1948), who is also one of the pastors at the Gedächtniskirche in Stuttgart-West . On January 1, 2008, he became city dean of the Stuttgart church district.
Deans of the church district of Stuttgart
- 1704–1712: Johann Bernhard Härlin
- 1712–1714: Wilhelm Eberhard Faber
- 1714–1733: Christoph Friedrich Stockmajer
- 1733–1742: Christian Friedrich Faber
- 1742–1743: Georg Konrad Rieger
- 1743–1744: Ludwig Eberhard Fischer (1695–1773)
- 1744–1748: Christoph Friedrich Stockmajer
- 1748–1757: Christoph Heinrich Denzel
- 1757–1766: Christoph Konrad Heller
- 1766–1773: Jakob Friedrich Spittler
- 1773–1781: Johann Friedrich Schmidlin
- 1781–1792: Johann Ernst Friedrich Bernhard
- 1793–1804: David Bernhard Sartorius
- 1804–1814: Gottlieb Heinrich Rieger
- 1815–1823: Nathanael Friedrich von Köstlin
- 1823: Jakob Friedrich Duttenhofer
- 1824–1836: Nathanael Friedrich von Köstlin
- 1836–1848: Friedrich von Gerok
- 1848–1862: Wilhelm Tobias Mehl
- 1862–1868: Karl von Gerok (1815–1890)
- 1869: Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Demmler
- 1869–1874: Carl August Leibbrand (1816–1874)
- 1875–1884 Karl Ludwig Eduard Teichmann (1823–1884)
- 1885–1886 Ernst von Ege (1823–1905)
- 1886–1897: Gottlieb Friedrich von Weitbrecht
- 1898–1904: Dr. Friedrich von Braun (1850–1904)
- 1904–1913: Karl Keeser
- 1913–1933: D. Theodor Andreas Friedrich Traub (1860–1942)
- 1933–1945: Dr. Richard Lempp (1883-1945)
- 1945–1959: Erwin Ißler (1890–1976)
- 1959–1970: Hans Lindel (1909–1981)
- 1970–1986: Peter Kreyssig (1924–2011)
- 1986–1999: Martin Klumpp (* 1940)
- 1999–2007: Hans-Peter Ehrlich (* 1948, from 2008 city dean of the Stuttgart church district )
Parishes
In the church district of Stuttgart there were recently a total of 22 parishes. Together these continue to form the “Gesamtkirchengemeinde Stuttgart”, but are legally independent corporations under public law. Until 1996 there were still 27 parishes. Since then, the number of parishes has decreased through the amalgamation of individual parishes. A detailed description of the individual churches was omitted because all church buildings are described in the special article Churches in Stuttgart . For the history of the individual parishes see the article Kirchenkreis Stuttgart .
The last 22 parishes in the Stuttgart church district were:
Parish Mountain, parish Botnang, Peter parish Stuttgart-Gablenberg, parish Gaisburg, Thomas parish Kaltental, Christuskirchengemeinde Stuttgart, Peace parish Stuttgart, memory and Rosenberg parish Stuttgart, Haigstkirchengemeinde Stuttgart, Savior parish Stuttgart, parish Stuttgart-Heslach, Hospital parish Stuttgart , Johannes parish Stuttgart, Leonhard parish Stuttgart , Ludwig -Hofacker-Kirchengemeinde Stuttgart, Lukas- und Lutherhauskirchengemeinde Stuttgart, Markuskirchengemeinde Stuttgart, Kirchengemeinde Stuttgart-Nord, Paul-Gerhardt-Kirchengemeinde Stuttgart, Pauluskirchengemeinde Stuttgart, Stiftskirchengemeinde Stuttgart and Waldkirchengemeinde Stuttgart
literature
- Christian Sigel (arrangement): The Evangelical Württemberg. Its church offices and clergy from the Reformation to the present, a reference work, Gebersheim 1910–1932.
- Landesarchivdirektion Baden-Württemberg (ed.): The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by districts and municipalities, Volume III: Administrative region Stuttgart - Regionalverband Mittlerer Neckar, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-17-004758-2 .