Eder church district

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Eder church district

Church of Our Lady in Frankenberg (Eder)
organization
Regional church Kurhessen-Waldeck
statistics
Parishes 53
Parishioners 43.097
management
dean Petra Hegmann
Web presence www.kirchenkreis-eder.de

The Eder parish is a parish of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck in the Marburg district . It was created in 2014 from the merger of the Eder and Frankenberg church districts. Around 43,000 Protestant Christians live in the 53 parishes of the church district. 40 pastors are responsible for them. The head of the church district is dean Petra Hegmann. The seat of the church district is Frankenberg (Eder) .

location

The church district borders in the east on the church districts Hofgeismar-Wolfhagen and Schwalm-Eder , in the north on the church district Twiste-Eisenberg and in the south on the church district Kirchhain (all EKKW). The Biedenkopf-Gladenbach deanery ( Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau ) joins in the west.

Communities

The church district extends from Freienhagen in the north to Gemünden in the south and from Rengershausen near Frankenberg in the west to Mandern near Bad Wildungen in the east. It essentially covers the southern half of the Waldeck-Frankenberg district .

Currently (as of August 2019) it includes the following parishes:

  • Affoldern
  • Albertshausen
  • Allendorf
  • Retirement home
  • Alt-Wildungen
  • Attack
  • Armsfeld
  • Asel
  • Bad Wildungen
  • Basdorf
  • Battenhausen
  • Mountain freedom
  • Bergheim
  • Birch Bringhausen
  • Bohne
  • Bottendorf
  • Braunau
  • Bringhausen
  • Courtiers
  • Burgwald
  • Dainrode
  • Dehringhausen
  • Dodenhausen
  • Village knight
  • Ederbringhausen
  • Ellershausen
  • Ernsthausen
  • Frankenau
  • Frankenberg
  • Frebershausen
  • Freienhagen
  • Friedrichshausen
  • Geismar
  • Gellershausen
  • Gemünden (Wohra)
  • Giflitz
  • Greetings
  • Haina (monastery)
  • Groves
  • Harbshausen
  • Haubern
  • Hemfurth-Edersee
  • Hommershausen
  • Hüddingen
  • Hundsdorf
  • Kirchlotheim
  • Smaller ones
  • Königshagen
  • Löhlbach
  • Louisendorf
  • Mandern
  • Marienhagen
  • Flours
  • Networks
  • Niederwerbe (Niederwerbe)
  • Obernburg
  • Oberorke
  • Oberwerba (Oberwerba)
  • Odershausen
  • Quernstkapelle
  • Reinhardshausen
  • Rengershausen
  • Roda
  • Rodenbach
  • Röddenau
  • Rosenthal
  • Sachsenhausen
  • Schiffelbach
  • Schreufa
  • Thalitter
  • Viermünden
  • Vöhl
  • Waldeck
  • Wangershausen
  • Vega
  • waves
  • Meadow field
  • Willersdorf

Web links

Individual evidence

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