Church district of Stade

Church district of Stade
St. Cosmae et Damiani in Stade
organization
Regional church	Ev.-luth. Regional Church of Hanover
statistics
Parishes	21st
Parishioners	55,000
management
Superintendent	Thomas Kück
Main Sermon Church	St. Cosmae et Damiani in Stade
Office address	Ritterstrasse 15 21682 Stade
Web presence	https://www.kirchenkreis-stade.de/

The Evangelical Lutheran Church District Stade is a church district in Lower Saxony . It belongs to the Stade district of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover . For Kirchenkreis Stade include (as of 2020) about 55,000 church members in 21 congregations . Thomas Kück has been the superintendent since 2008.

geography

The church district of Stade is located in the north-east of Lower Saxony and extends over the area of ​​the district of Stade (without some parishes in the southern part that belong to the church district of Buxtehude ).

history

The church district was formed in 1976 through the union of the previous church districts of Stade-Altes Land and Kehdingen.

Parishes in the Stade parish

• Woodlouse
• Balje
• Borstel
• St. Nicolai Bützfleth
• Drochtersen
• Estebrugge (with Hamburg-Cranz )
• Freiburg / Elbe
• Hamelwörden
• Himmelpforten
• Hollern-Twielenfleth
• St. Petri Horst in Burweg
• Jork
• Cabbage sand
• Crooked dike
• Lühekirchen
• Oederquart
• Oldendorf
• St. Cosmae Stade
• Johannis Stade
• Markus Stade
• St. Wilhadi Stade

Neighboring Church Districts

The Stade parish is bordered by the Cuxhaven-Hadeln parish in the north - west, the Bremervörde parish in the south-west and the Buxtehude parish in the south . To the east of the church circle touches the Stade church district Hamburg-Ost in Sprengel Hamburg and Luebeck the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany . Beyond the Elbe, the church districts Hamburg-West / Südholstein (Hamburg and Lübeck), Rantzau-Münsterdorf and Dithmarschen (both districts of Schleswig and Holstein ) are neighbors of Stades.

Web links

• Website of the church district of Stade