Church district of Herne

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View of the Herner Kreuzkirche

The Evangelical Church District Herne is one of 27 church districts within the Evangelical Church of Westphalia . It is located in the center of the Ruhr area and is home to the parishes in Herne and Castrop-Rauxel with the exception of the districts of Deininghausen and Merklinde . The official seat is the city of Herne. In 2010 there were about 75,000 Protestant parishioners in 15 parishes in the parish. The superintendent is Rainer Rimkus.

Superintendent

from to Surname
1933 1941 Gotthold Krahn
1942 1945 Karl Stein
1945 1955 Otto Kill
1955 1959 Gustav Adolf Brenne
1959 1967 Ernst Eisenhardt
1967 1985 Fritz Schwarz
1985 2004 Klaus-Peter Röber
2005 ... Rainer Rimkus

Churches and parishes

The church district comprises 15 congregations in three synodal regions. Six of them are in Herne, five in Wanne-Eickel and four in Castrop-Rauxel.

image Synodal region local community Church (noun) Remarks
Herne Bismarckstraße 98 ev Church 01.jpg Herne Ev. Baukau parish
  • Matthew Church (Baukau)
Herne Zionskirche.jpg Herne Ev. Parish Bladenhorst-Zion
  • Zionskirche (Horsthausen)
  • Pöppinghauser village church [since 2019 Paulus parish Castrop-Rauxel]
  • Paul Gerhardt Church (Pantringshof) [demolished in 2010]
Herne Ev. Emmaus parish Börnig
  • Emmaus Church (Börnig)
Herne-South Luther Church.jpg Herne Ev. Petrus parish of Herne
  • Trinity Church (Herne-Süd)
  • Christ Church (Constantin)
  • Luther Church (Herne-South)
Herne-Europaplatz-IMG 2290.jpg Herne Ev. Kreuzkirchengemeinde
Sodingen church.jpg Herne Ev. Sodingen parish
  • Johanniskirche (Sodingen)
Herne-Wanne Our Fritz Strasse Lutherkirche Front.jpg

Herne church of Crange.jpg

Wanne-Eickel Ev. Parish of Crange-Wanne
Herne Eickel - Hauptstrasse-Johanneskirche 01 ies.jpg Wanne-Eickel Ev. Eickel parish
Wanne-Eickel Ev. Stephanus parish Holsterhausen
  • Stephanus Church (Holsterhausen)
Herne church tower Lutherkirche.jpg Wanne-Eickel Ev. Parish of Röhlinghausen
  • Luther Church (Röhlinghausen)
Wanne, Christ Church, Hauptstrasse 245 from the southeast.jpg

Twelve Apostles Church Wanne-Sued (1) .jpg Church of the Resurrection Herne Tower.jpg

Wanne-Eickel Ev. Matthäus-Kirchengemeinde Wanne
Castrop Luther Church.jpg Castrop-Rauxel Ev. Paulus parish in Castrop
  • Luther Church (Castrop)
  • Paulus Church (Rauxel)
  • Church of the Resurrection (Obercastrop)
  • Pöppinghauser village church [since 2019]
Habinghorst, the Petri Church foto4 2015-04-20 11.06.jpg Castrop-Rauxel Ev. Habinghorst parish
  • Petrikirche (Habinghorst)
Castrop-Rauxel Church of the Redeemer Henrichenburg.jpg Castrop-Rauxel Ev. Ickern-Henrichenburg parish
  • Christ Church (Ickern)
  • Church of the Redeemer (Henrichenburg)
Castrop-Rauxel Ev. Schwerin-Frohlinde parish
  • Johanneskirche (Schwerin)

Church district institutions

In the district church office on Overwegstraße in Herne is the seat of the superintendent and the district church administration. The following departments exist within the church district:

  • Pastoral care for the elderly
  • Zeppelin unemployment center
  • YMCA
  • One world center
  • Youth Department (Fishermen's Office)
  • Kindergarten community
  • Church music
  • Hospital pastoral care ( palliative ward )
  • Public Relations
  • School department / media library (together with the church districts Bochum and Gelsenkirchen)
  • Debt counseling Herne eV (recognized insolvency advice center)
  • World shop "Esperanza"

Furthermore, three societies belong to the church district:

  • Diakonisches Werk Herne gGmbH
  • Ev. Hospital community Herne / Castrop-Rauxel gGmbH
  • Ev. Children's home Herne / Wanne-Eickel gGmbH

Web links

Individual evidence