Church district Hattingen-Witten
The Evangelical Church District Hattingen-Witten is one of 27 church districts within the Evangelical Church of Westphalia . It encompasses the largest part of the Ennepe-Ruhr district as well as the community of Kidneyhof, which belongs to the Rhenish town of Velbert . The seat of the district church office, from which the church district is administered, is the city of Witten . A total of 73,000 Protestant parishioners in 17 parishes belong to the church district.
history
The Reformation did not gain a foothold in the Kleve-Mark area on the central Ruhr (with the exception of Wengern ) in the second half of the 16th century, but then largely prevailed. Most of the congregations remained Lutheran, but Reformed congregations also emerged in the 17th century. Even after the incorporation into Brandenburg-Prussia , both churches were able to receive their presbyterial-synodal constitution . In the course of the reorganization of the province of Westphalia after the Congress of Vienna , the Hattingen church district was founded in 1818 as one of 16 church districts , in which the Lutheran and Reformed communities were united.
When in 1933 the church districts in the Ruhr area were re-tailored to adapt to the municipal boundaries, the Hattingen church district was transformed into the Hattingen-Witten church district. He gave Silschede and Herzkamp to the Schwelm parish , Stiepel , Linden and Dahlhausen to the Bochum parish and Königssteele to the Essen parish belonging to the Rhenish provincial church ; instead Witten, Annen-Wullen and Stockum from the Bochum church district and Rüdinghausen from the Dortmund church district were added.
Churches and parishes
The Hattingen-Witten parish includes 17 parishes.
- Hattingen
- Evangelical Johannes parish
- Evangelical Congregation Niederwenigern
- Evangelical Sankt-Georgs-Kirchengemeinde Hattingen
- Evangelical Church Community Welper-Blankenstein ( Evangelical Church Blankenstein )
- Evangelical parish Winz-Baak
- Velbert
- Evangelical parish in Kidneyhof
- Sprockhövel
- Evangelical Church Community Bredenscheid-Sprockhövel ( Evangelical Church Niedersprockhövel )
- Witten
- Evangelical parish of Annen
- Evangelical parish in Bommern
- Evangelical parish of Herbede
- Evangelical parish Witten-Rüdinghausen
- Evangelical parish in Stockum
- Evangelical Trinity Parish Witten
- Ev.-Luth. Johannis parish in Witten
- Ev.-Luth. Martin Luther parish
- Wetter-Wengern
Theological attitudes
The Evangelical Church District Hattingen-Witten issued a statement in 2014 on the rehabilitation of the victims of the witch trials.
Superintendent
Church district of Hattingen
| from | to | Surname |
|---|---|---|
| 1818 | 1820 | Christian Gillhausen |
| 1820 | 1825 | Carl Friedrich Ueltjesfort |
| 1825 | 1828 | Friedrich Möller |
| 1828 | 1831 | Jacob nun |
| 1831 | 1834 | Johannes Schöneberg |
| 1835 | 1844 | Gustav Ludwig Natorp |
| 1844 | 1855 | Hugo Sweers |
| 1855 | 1860 | Friedrich Koester |
| 1861 | 1864 | Julius Thikötter |
| 1865 | 1869 | Friedrich Koester |
| 1870 | 1891 | Andreas Fernickel |
| 1892 | 1898 | Rudolf nun |
| 1898 | 1917 | Heinrich Meier-Peter |
| 1917 | 1926 | Alexander van Hoefen |
| 1926 | 1933 | Friedrich Neuhaus |
Church district Hattingen-Witten
| from | to | Surname |
|---|---|---|
| 1933 | 1936 | Erich Müller |
| 1936 | 1941 | Wilhelm Richter |
| 1941 | 1944 | Paul Winckler |
| 1945 | 1956 | August Graefe zu Baringdorf |
| 1956 | 1958 | Fritz Blesken |
| 1958 | 1969 | Heinrich Hangebrauck |
| 1970 | 1980 | Friedel cave |
| 1980 | 1988 | Wilhelm Tometten |
| 1988 | 2005 | Ernst Walter Voswinkel |
| 2006 | 2016 | Ingo Neserke |
| 2017 | today | Julia Holtz |
literature
- Evangelical communities on the Ruhr. The church district of Witten-Hattingen. Witten 1983.