Church district Cologne
The Cologne parish , until 1894 Mülheim am Rhein parish , was a parish of the Protestant Church in the Rhine Province and later the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland . The ecclesiastical administrative unit used to be called synod after its governing body .
history
The Synod of Emden (1571) determined in § 10 of its resolution that the two Cologne Reformed congregations as well as the Reformed congregations in Aachen, Maastricht, Limburg, Neuss and in the Duchy of Jülich should form a Cologne class, i.e. a common assembly area. In the order of the Reformed parishes of the Lower Rhine, as it was adopted in 1610 at the First Reformed General Synod in Duisburg , there was no longer any talk of Cologne. Attempts to form a "Mülheimer Classis" with communities on the Sieg and the Siebengebirge were lost in the course of the Counter Reformation of the Thirty Years' War . During the Napoleonic rule over Cologne in 1804 a “General Consistory” was set up for the Lutheran communities; the local consistories in Krefeld , Simmern , Kreuznach , Trarbach and Kastellaun were subordinate to this .
When Prussia took over administration in 1814, a senior consistory was set up for the Lower Rhine in Düsseldorf, and on April 23, 1816, the company was relocated to Cologne. This initiated the formation of church circles. "In memory of that submerged Mülheimer Classis, the Mülheim am Rhein district was formed in 1817." Twelve parishes on the right and six on the left of the Rhine with a total of 8,000 parishioners belonged to it.
In 1892 the parish of Bad Honnef applied to divide the church district in view of the increased number of Protestants. The motion was accepted against the vote of the communities from Ruppichteroth , Bornheim , Honrath , Godesberg , Seelscheid , Siegburg and Wahlscheid . On September 26, 1894, the division into the church districts of Cologne and Bonn took place along the boundaries of the district court districts of Bonn and Cologne.
With the further increase in the number of believers, the Cologne church district was divided into four independent church districts Cologne-Mitte , Cologne-North , Cologne-Rechtsrheinisch and Cologne-Süd . For certain tasks they have joined the Evangelical Church Association Cologne and Region.
organization
Mülheim am Rhein
The original Mülheim Synod included the parishes Bergisch Gladbach , Bonn , Brühl connected with Bornheim (→ Christ Church (Brühl) ), Cöln , Brauweiler , Delling , Deutz , Ehrenfeld , Eitorf , Flammersheim- Euskirchen, Frechen , Godesberg , Herchen , Honrath , Kalk , Kerpen- Bergheim-Elsdorf, Kirchherten , Königswinter- Honnef, Leuscheid , Mülheim am Rhein , Nippes , Obercassel , Ruppichteroth , Seelscheid , Siegburg , Volberg and Wahlscheid .
In 1880 the synod had 33 pastors and assistant pastors and looked after 48,199 believers.
Church district Cologne
After the division, 13 parishes remained in the Cologne church district: Bergisch Gladbach , Brühl , Delling , Deutz , Ehrenfeld , Elsdorf-Bergeim , Frechen , Kalk , Kirchherten , Cologne , Mülheim am Rhein , Nippes and Volberg .
Later new communities were founded: Lindenthal (1898), Bayenthal (1899), Zieverich (1903), Porz (1909), Dellbrück (1913), Wesseling (1925), Kerpen-Horrem (1928), Zollstock (1936), Knapsack ( 1948), Rodenkirchen (1948), Weiden (1948), Brüggen (1949), Liblar (1949), Lindlar (1949), Bensberg (1950), Braunsfeld (1950) and Brück (1950).
Kirchherten moved to the Gladbach parish in 1946 , Altenberg came to Cologne from the Solingen parish in 1950 .
In 1934 the communities formed a general association.
literature
- Ferdinand Magen: The church district Mülheim am Rhein (1817-1894). β-Verlag, Rödingen, 2002, ISBN 3-931395-16-2 .
- Albert Rosenkranz : The Evangelical Rhineland: a Rhenish parish and pastor's book (= series of publications of the Association for Rhenish Church History, Vol. 3). Kirche in der Zeit, Düsseldorf 1956, DNB 454196482 , pp. 360–389.
- Synodal map of the Protestant parishes of the Rhine Province. Julius Joost publisher in Langenberg.