Church district Nuremberg
| Church district Nuremberg | |
|---|---|
 St. Lorenz in Nuremberg sermon church of the regional bishops |
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| organization | |
| Regional church | Evangelical Luth. Church in Bavaria |
| statistics | |
| Deanery districts | 10 deaneries |
| Parishes | 216 |
| Parishes | 282 |
| Parishioners | 563,000 |
| management | |
| Regional bishop | Stefan Ark Nitsche |
| Regional Bishop | Elisabeth Hann von Weyhern |
| Office address | Pirckheimerstraße 10 90408 Nuremberg |
| Web presence | www.kirchenkreis-nuernberg.de |
The church district of Nuremberg is one of six church districts of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria . Its seat is in Nuremberg . 563,000 Evangelical Lutheran Christians live in the church district in 282 parishes, which are grouped together to form 216 parishes. There are over 500 churches, community centers, and other regular places of worship. Since March 1, 2006, the church district has been headed by the regional bishops Stefan Ark Nitsche and Elisabeth Hann von Weyhern in a shared position.
geography
The majority of the church district is in the Bavarian administrative district of Middle Franconia .
Apart from the parish of Sankt Helena zu Großengsee ( Simmelsdorf ), the dean's office Gräfenberg is located in the north entirely in the administrative district of Upper Franconia , as is a smaller part of the dean's office in Erlangen . There the border between the administrative districts runs through the area of the parish of Baiersdorf .
In the south, large parts of the Pappenheim deanery as well as the southern edge of the Thalmässing parish in the Weißenburg deanery belong politically to the far north of Upper Bavaria . The parishes of Rehlingen and Büttelbronn ( Monheim ), whose area is partly in the administrative district of Swabia, also belong to the Pappenheim deanery .
The southernmost tip of the parish Alfeld in the deanery of Hersbruck (area around Lauterhofen ) belongs to the Upper Palatinate , as well as the parish Postbauer-Heng and part of the parish of Rasch (both also deanery Hersbruck).
history
When the church district was founded in 1935, deaneries from two of the three previously existing church districts were merged: from the church district of Ansbach, the deaneries Altdorf, Erlangen, Fürth, Hersbruck, Nuremberg, Roth (abolished in 1969), Schwabach and Thalmässing (abolished in 1969), from the dean's office Münchaurach (repealed in 1972) to the church district of Bayreuth . In 1951 the deaneries in Markt Erlbach and Neustadt an der Aisch (merged in 1970) as well as Weißenburg in Bavaria from the parish of Ansbach, the dean's office Gräfenberg from the parish of Bayreuth and the dean's office Pappenheim from the parish of Munich were reclassified here.
District deans or regional bishops
The upper church councils in church district were called district dean until 1999; since then they have held the title of regional bishop. Since the establishment of the church district, this office has been held by:
- 1935–1958: Julius Schieder (1888–1964)
- 1958–1969: Eugen Giegler (1900–1992)
- 1969–1977: Hans Luther (1910–1985)
- 1977–1984: Johannes Viebig (1919–2008)
- 1985–1994: Hermann von Loewenich (1931–2008)
- 1994–1997: Franz Peschke (* 1938)
- 1997–2006: Karl-Heinz Röhlin (* 1951)
- since 2006: Stefan Ark Nitsche and Elisabeth Hann von Weyhern
Deanery districts
The church district has ten deanery districts in which 17 deans work:
Web links
- Homepage of the church district Nuremberg
- Preface to the overview of the archive holdings (with historical outline)
