Church district of Zuffenhausen
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| Regional Church : | Evangelical Church in Württemberg |
| Prelature : | Stuttgart |
| Area : | km² |
| former structure: | 11 parishes |
| Parishioners: | approx.32,600 (2005) |
| Address of the Dean's Office : |
Ilsfelder Str. 10
70435 Stuttgart |
| last dean : | Wiebke Wähling |
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The Evangelical Church District of Zuffenhausen 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 Stuttgart , Bad Cannstatt and Degerloch to form the church district of Stuttgart . However, the area of the church district of Zuffenhausen lives on as the deanship district of Zuffenhausen within the church district of Stuttgart.
geography
The church district of Zuffenhausen was in the middle of the Württemberg regional church. Its area included the Stuttgart districts of Feuerbach , Stammheim , Weilimdorf and Zuffenhausen as well as the districts of Freiberg and Mönchfeld in the Mühlhausen district .
Neighboring church districts
The church district of Zuffenhausen bordered the following church districts (starting clockwise in the north): Ludwigsburg (Stuttgart prelature), Waiblingen (Heilbronn prelature) and Bad Cannstatt , Stuttgart and Ditzingen (all Stuttgart prelature).
history
In contrast to most of the deaneries of the Württemberg regional church, which were established soon after the Reformation, the Zuffenhausen church district was newly founded in the 1960s. As a result of the population growth in the Stuttgart area, new church districts were founded between 1965 and 1980, including the Zuffenhausen church district. It was created on January 1, 1965 from the western area of the Bad Cannstatt church district . In the past, some parishes did not belong to the dean's office in Bad Cannstatt, but to the Stuttgart administrative office and thus to the area of the Stuttgart official dean's office or to other dean's offices (e.g. Weilimdorf until 1939 to the dean's office in Leonberg or Zuffenhausen from 1718 to 1939 to the dean's office in Ludwigsburg). The church district of Zuffenhausen has been part of the Stuttgart Prelature since it was founded.
In order to create a uniform church system within the city limits of Stuttgart, the "Evangelical City Association Stuttgart" was founded in 1983, to which, in addition to the Zuffenhausen church district, the three other Stuttgart church districts (Bad Cannstatt, Degerloch and Stuttgart) also 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 the Stuttgart city association were merged into a single church district of Stuttgart .
Head of the church district
The church district was led by the district synod , the church district committee (KBA) and the dean . The last dean since 2001 was Wiebke Wähling (* 1947), who is also pastor at the Johanneskirche in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen . She continues to be the dean of the Deanery District of Zuffenhausen within the Church District of Stuttgart.
Deans of the church district of Zuffenhausen
- 1965–1982 Gerhard Rentschler (founding dean)
- 1982–1992 Emil Sautter (* 1927)
- 1992–2001 Martin Reyer (* 1946)
- 2001–2007 Wiebke Wähling (* 1947), since 2008 Dean of the Deanery District of Zuffenhausen within the Church District of Stuttgart
Parishes
In the church district of Zuffenhausen there were recently a total of eleven parishes. Of these, eight parishes have merged to form two total parishes, but remain legally independent bodies under public law.
Until 2000 there were still 16 parishes. Since then, their number has decreased through the amalgamation of individual parishes. The parish numbers given in brackets after the name of the parish relate to the year 2005 and have been rounded. A detailed description of the individual churches was largely dispensed with 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 11 parishes in the Zuffenhausen church district were:
Parish of Feuerbach, total parish “Himmelsleiter” (consisting of the four parishes Freiberg, Mönchfeld, Stuttgart-Rot and Zazenhausen), parish Stammheim, total parish Stuttgart-Weilimdorf (consisting of the four parishes Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-parish Weilimdorf, Oswaldkirchengemeinde Weilimdorf and Weilimdorf parish Wolfbusch parish Weilimdorf) and parish Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen
literature
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: Stuttgart District - Middle Neckar Regional Association, Stuttgart, 1978, ISBN 3-17-004758-2 .