Church district Schmalkalden
| Church district Schmalkalden | |
|---|---|
 City church Schmalkalden |
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| organization | |
| Regional church | Kurhessen-Waldeck |
| statistics | |
| Parishes | 17th |
| Parishioners | approx. 24,000 |
| management | |
| dean | Ralf Gebauer |
| Web presence | www.eksm.de |
The church district Schmalkalden is a church district in the Hersfeld district of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck . Around 24,000 Protestant Christians live in its 17 congregations. Dean Ralf Gebauer is the head of the church district. The facility is based in Schmalkalden .
location
The church district Schmalkalden is an exclave of the EKKW within the Evangelical Church in Central Germany . The church districts of Waltershausen-Ohrdruf ( Propstsprengel Eisenach-Erfurt ), Henneberger Land, Meiningen and Bad Salzungen-Dermbach (all Propstsprengel Meiningen-Suhl ) border it clockwise . The closest church district in Hesse is Hersfeld-Rotenburg .
One of the parishes in the church district (Barchfeld) is in the Wartburg district , the others in the Schmalkalden-Meiningen district .
history
The area of the church district corresponds to that of the Schmalkalden rule , half of which belonged to the Landgraviate of Hesse from 1360 and to the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel from 1583 . At first all parishes were Lutheran ; by Landgrave Moritz also the emergence of a has been since the beginning of the 17th century but reformed church encouraged. Within the Evangelical State Church in Hessen-Kassel there was a Lutheran and a Reformed superintendent . It was not until 1873 that the diocese of Schmalkalden was created as part of a centralization of church structures, which then also existed from 1934 as the deanery of Schmalkalden within the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck. When the district of Herrschaft Schmalkalden passed from the Prussian province of Hessen-Nassau to the administrative district of Erfurt in 1944 and became part of the state of Thuringia in 1945 , nothing changed with regard to the church affiliation with Kurhessen-Waldeck. Because of the internal division of Germany, an agreement was signed with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thuringia in 1951 . From 1968, however, the GDR authorities prevented the participation of synodals from Schmalkalden in the regional synods, since according to the new GDR constitution, the church borders had to correspond to the state borders. On the basis of a contract dated April 28, 1970 (supplemented by a secret additional protocol from Bishops Moritz Mitzenheim and Erich Vellmer on the option of reorganization after the hoped-for German reunification), the deanery was therefore incorporated into the Thuringian church. At the request of the Dean's Synod in spring 1990, this integration was reversed in 1991.
Parishes
The following parishes belong to the church district:
- Barchfeld with the Barchfeld Church
- Brotterode (with the Church of St. Nicolai )
- Fambach (with the St. Jakobus Church )
- Floh-Seligenthal (with the two village churches Kleinschmalkalden and the churches in Floh , Seligenthal , Schnellbach and Struth-Helmershof )
- Haindorf with the village church Haindorf
- Man spreads
- Schmalkalden (with the town church St. Georg , the hospital chapel and the churches in Asbach , Breitenbach , Mittelstille and Weidebrunn as well as several parish halls )
- Steinbach-Hallenberg (with the town church Steinbach and the churches in Altersbach , Bermbach , Herges-Hallenberg , Oberschönau , Rotterode , Springstille and Unterschönau )
- Trusetal (with the Trusetal village church )
In addition, the regional church community forms its own congregation.
literature
- Church district council Schmalkalden (Ed.): Church district Schmalkalden. Evangelical Media Association, Kassel 2006.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Volker Knöppel: History of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck 1945 to 2000 . In: Rainer Hering, Jochen-Christoph Kaiser (Hrsg.): Kurhessen and Waldeck in the 20th century. Contributions to church history. Volume II . Evang. Medienverband, Kassel 2012, pp. 385–530, here pp. 519–525; Renate Löscher: 20 years of reintegration of the Schmalkalden church district into the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck. Evangelical Church Congregation Schmalkalden, July 28, 2011, accessed on May 23, 2014 .