Church district of Sieg and Rhine

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The Evangelical Church District An Sieg und Rhein is one of the 37 Church Districts of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland . It was created on January 1st, 1968 when the old church district of Bonn was divided into the church districts of Bonn , Bad Godesberg-Voreifel and An Sieg und Rhein. Currently (January 2020) it includes 33 parishes with a total of about 115,000 church members.

Area of ​​the church district

The Evangelical Church District An Sieg und Rhein extends on the right bank of the Rhine with the Rhine as the border around the Sieg , with Overath being the northernmost, Neustadt - Vettelschoss being the southernmost and Leuscheid being the easternmost. The area of ​​the church district lies predominantly in the Rhein-Sieg district on the right bank of the Rhine , although individual parishes belong to the Bonn city ​​area, the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis and the Rhineland-Palatinate districts of Altenkirchen and Neuwied . The seat of the superintendent is Siegburg .

management

According to Rhenish church law, the church district is led by the district synod , which usually meets twice a year, by the district synodal committee and by the superintendent .

Superintendent of the church district An Sieg und Rhein:

1968–1974: Walter Klocke (1910–1987)
1975–1990: Helmut Wirths
1990–2000: Rainer Stuhlmann
2000–2011: Hans Joachim Corts
2012–2016: Reinhard Bartha
from 2017: Almut van Niekerk

Communities

literature

  • Dietrich Höroldt, Waltraud Joch (ed.): Evangelical churches and parishes in the church districts of Bonn, Bad Godesberg, An Sieg and Rhein. Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-427-85041-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the church district, accessed on January 8, 2020.
  2. ^ Vita Klockes in the finding aid of the archive of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland. Retrieved March 13, 2013.
  3. Self-description of the Evangelical Church Community Siegburg. Retrieved March 13, 2013.
  4. Draft speech ( Memento of the original from January 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 13 kB) of the Rhein-Sieg district. Retrieved March 13, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rhein-sieg-kreis.de
  5. Greetings ( Memento of the original from May 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 11 kB) by District Administrator Frithjof Kühn on the occasion of the farewell and dismissal of Hans Joachim Corts. Retrieved March 13, 2013.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rhein-sieg-kreis.de
  6. Report of EKiR about choosing Barthas superintendent. Retrieved March 13, 2013.
  7. Press release from ekasur http://www.ekasur.de/presse/details/pfarrerin-van-niekerk-zur-superintendentin-gewaehlt/ Accessed on November 27, 2016