Church district Niederberg
The Niederberg church district is one of the 37 church districts of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland . The seat of the superintendent of the church district is Velbert .
history
The Niederberg church district was created in May 1878 through the division of the Elberfeld district synod . The parishes of Sonnborn, Gruiten, Schöller, Düssel, Wülfrath, Reformed Velbert, Lutheran Velbert, Heiligenhaus, Langenberg, Neviges and Dönberg, located in the Prussian district of Mettmann at that time, left the Elberfeld District Synod and formed the Niederberg District Synod from then on.
structure
Today the Niederberg church district is an amalgamation of ten parishes in which 42,400 parishioners lived on January 1, 2019:
There are 19 parish and eight functional pastors in the church district.
management
The highest organ of the church district is the district synod, which usually meets twice a year. Between the meetings of the district synod, the church district is led by the district synodal committee (KSV). Both the district synodal board and the district synod are chaired by the superintendent, who is elected by the district synod for eight years. Pastor Jürgen Buchholz, pastor in the Bergische Diakonie Aprath , has been the part-time superintendent since July 2014 .
literature
- Synodal map of the Protestant parishes of the Rhine Province. Julius Joost publisher in Langenberg.
- Albert Rosenkranz: The Protestant Rhineland. Volume I: The communities. Press association of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland, Düsseldorf 1956.