Church district Welzheim

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The Evangelical Church District Welzheim was a church district or deanery of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg . With effect from January 1, 1978, the Welzheim church district was dissolved and its parishes were divided between the neighboring church districts of Backnang , Schorndorf and Schwäbisch Gmünd .

history

In 1181 a church was mentioned in Welzheim . In 1243 it was called St. Galluskirche. It was exchanged for the Lorch Abbey, to which it was incorporated in 1259. Through the Reformation it fell to Württemberg. The church was rebuilt after the fire of 1726 and redesigned in 1815/17. As early as 1806, Welzheim became the seat of a Württemberg Oberamt , whose seat was relocated to Lorch between 1810 and 1819. In 1824 Welzheim also became the seat of a deanery and the parish church of Welzheim became the deanery. The deanery district received its parishes from the deanery Schorndorf, which had become too big. It belonged to the Generalate Schwäbisch Hall , after its dissolution in 1913 to the Generalate Ulm, from which today's Prelature Ulm emerged .

In 1938 the Oberamt Welzheim was dissolved and its area was mainly assigned to the Waiblingen district . The ecclesiastical administrative district, the Welzheim deanery, remained in existence until 1977 and was then also dissolved.

Deans of the church district Welzheim 1824 to 1977

not yet complete

  • 1824–1830 Johann Friedrich Christoph Hartmann
  • 1831–1839 Georg Friedrich Simeon Gundert
  • 1839–1855 Jakob Friedrich Weitbrecht (1798–1868)
  • 1855–1859 Dr. Johann Friedrich Braun
  • 1859–1883 ​​Christoph Andreas Heintzeler
  • 1883–1890 Karl Christian Hole (1837–1903)
  • 1891–1915 Georg Emil Leitz
  • 1916–1931 Friedrich Weller
  • 1932–1933 Otto Engel
  • 1934–? Hermann Josenhans
  • –1973? Dean Rau
  • 1973–1977 Gebhard Kirn (* 1913)

Parishes

Before its dissolution in 1978, the Welzheim church district comprised the following 13, until 1977 14 parishes :

Alfdorf (including the Pfahlbronn branch parish, which was dissolved on December 4, 1977), Großdeinbach , Hellershof, Kaisersbach, Kirchenkirnberg, Lorch, Plüderhausen, Rienharz , Rudersberg, Schlechtbach, Waldhausen, Weitmars, Welzheim

They belonged to the political cities and communities of Alfdorf , Kaisersbach , Lorch , Plüderhausen , Rudersberg , Schwäbisch Gmünd and Welzheim .

Until April 1, 1951, the parishes of Lindach (now the city of Schwäbisch Gmünd) and Täferrot belonged to the Welzheim church district. At the time, these had been assigned to the newly founded church district Schwäbisch Gmünd with other parishes in the parishes of Aalen and Gaildorf .

After the church district of Welzheim was dissolved in 1978, the remaining 13 parishes were divided as follows:

  • Church district Schorndorf: Alfdorf (with Pfahlbronn), Hellershof, Kaisersbach, Plüderhausen, Rudersberg, Schlechtbach, Welzheim and Rienharz
  • Church district Backnang: Kirchenkirnberg
  • Church district Schwäbisch Gmünd: Großdeinbach, Lorch, Weitmars and Waldhausen

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 Directorate.
    • Volume III: Region Stuttgart - Regionalverband Mittlerer Neckar, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-17-004758-2 .
    • Volume IV: Stuttgart District - Regional Associations Franconia and East Wuerttemberg, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-17-005708-1 .