Church district Fritzlar-Homberg
| Church district Fritzlar-Homberg | |
|---|---|
 City church in Homberg (Efze) |
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| organization | |
| Regional church | Kurhessen-Waldeck |
| statistics | |
| Parishes | 82 |
| Parishioners | 58,855 |
| management | |
| dean | Sabine Bottlenose Dolphin |
| Web presence | www.kirchenkreis-fritzlar-homberg.de |
The Fritzlar-Homberg parish was a parish of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck (EKKW) in the Marburg district .
history
It was created in 2014 through the merger of the two church districts Fritzlar and Homberg. On January 1, 2020, it merged with the neighboring parish of Melsungen and the adjacent parish of Ziegenhain to form the parish of Schwalm-Eder .
58,855 Protestant Christians lived in the 82 parishes of the church district. There were six church-sponsored day-care centers in the church district and the church district office in Homberg. The last leaders of the church district were the deans Helmut Umbach and Sabine Tümmler. The seat of the deanery is Fritzlar .
Communities
The church district extended roughly over the northern half of the Schwalm-Eder district and included the political communities of Edermünde , Niedenstein , Gudensberg , Fritzlar , Wabern , Borken , Homberg (Efze) , Felsberg , Bad Zwesten , Jesberg , Neuental and Knüllwald .
location
It bordered the Hessian church districts Wolfhagen and Kaufungen in the north, Melsungen , Rotenburg and Hersfeld in the east, Ziegenhain in the south and Eder in the west.