Hersfeld church district
| Hersfeld church district | |
|---|---|
 City church in Bad Hersfeld |
|
| organization | |
| Regional church | Kurhessen-Waldeck |
| statistics | |
| Parishes | 30th |
| Parishioners | 45.509 |
| management | |
| dean | Dr. Frank Hofmann |
| Web presence | www.kirchenkreis-hef-rof.de |
The Hersfeld parish was a parish of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck in the Hanau-Hersfeld district. On January 1, 2020, it merged with the neighboring parish of Rotenburg to form the parish of Hersfeld-Rotenburg .
Around 45,000 Protestant Christians lived in the 40 parishes of the church district. There were eight church-sponsored day-care centers in the church district as well as the church district office, which had also been responsible for the Rotenburg church district since 2005. The last head of the church district was Dean Dr. Frank Hofmann. The seat of the church district was Bad Hersfeld .
Communities
The church district extended over the area of the old district of Hersfeld . In August 2019 it consisted of the following parishes:
- Bad Hersfeld Resurrection Community
- Bad Hersfeld-Martinskirche
- Bad Hersfeld-Matthäuskirche
- Bad Hersfeld town church
- Asbach-Eichhof
- Ludwigsau
- Frielingen
- Friedewald
- Heimboldshausen
- gethsemane
- Urethra
- Röhrigshof
- Lower Eurode
- Herrings
- Hilmes
- Kerspenhausen
- Kirchheim
- Neukirchen
- Kruspis
- Oberstoppel
- Odensachsen
- Niederaula
- Niederjossa
- Neuenstein-Amt Geis
- Petersberg
- Philippsthal
- Raboldsausen-Mühlbach
- Schenklengsfeld ( Mauritius Church (Schenklengsfeld) , Evangelical Church Ausbach )
- Unterhaun and Eitra-Sieglos
- Wehrda-Rhina
location
It bordered the Rotenburg parish in the north, the Evangelical Church of Central Germany in the east, the Fulda parish in the south and the Ziegenhain and Fritzlar-Homberg parish in the west .