Church district Unna
The Evangelical Church District Unna is one of 27 church districts within the Evangelical Church of Westphalia . It was founded in 1818; The official seat is the city of Unna . In total (as of February 2020) there are around 73,000 Protestant parishioners in 13 parishes in the church district.
Geographical location
The Ev. Church district Unna is located in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in the area of the Unna district with the municipalities of Unna, Kamen, Bergkamen, Fröndenberg and Holzwickede.
It lies between the Ruhr area, the Sauerland and the Münsterland on Hellweg , bounded in the north by the Lippe and in the south by the Ruhr .
Many traffic handling connections favor the central location: the motorways A 1 and A 2 cross here in Kamen Cross , the A44 starts in the field. Many places have train connections to the long-distance train stations in Dortmund or Hamm.
history
The beginnings
The Reformation of the communities Frömern and Lünern took place in 1545, and between 1559 and 1580 most of the communities in the county of Mark converted to the Protestant creed. At Easter 1559 the first choirs were heard in the Unna city church, on All Saints' Day of the same year the Lord's Supper was served there for the first time under both forms . Philipp Nicolai was from 1596 to 1601 preacher at the Ev. Unna town church. On March 16, 1611, the first Reformed Synod took place in Unna with the communities of Unna, Kamen, Heeren and Fröndenberg. On October 2, 1612, a first Lutheran synod followed in Unna with the communities of Bausenhagen, Dellwig, Frömern, Fröndenberg, Hemmerde, Lünern, Methler and Opherdicke. Both churches now had a presbyterial-synodal constitution , which was secured by the church ordinance of 1662 for the Reformed congregations and of 1687 for the Lutheran congregations in Kleve-Mark . When the administration was standardized in the province of Westphalia, which was newly established after the Congress of Vienna , and King Friedrich Wilhelm III's appeal for union . of 1817 had found special approval in the county of Mark, in 1818 both "classes" were combined to form a church district (according to the parlance at the time, a "diocese"). As a result, the communities in the individual places merged (1822 in Unna, 1837 in Fröndenberg, not until 1920 in Kamen). Today there are only parishes with a Lutheran or uniate confession in the church district.
Development and expansion
In 1858 an Ev. Hospital and poor house established in Unna. After 1945, finally in 1953, the ecclesiastical province of Westphalia became the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union and became the Evangelical Church of Westphalia . In 1965 the establishment of its own district church office was the first of its kind in the Ev. Church of Westphalia. In 1967 the new building of the Ev. Hospital in Unna inaugurated. In 1968 it was divided into five boards of trustees: Unna, Kamen, Bergkamen, Holzwickede and Fröndenberg, the latter two have since been merged. In 1977 the Unna and Kamen Diakonia were established. In 1988 the new building of the district church office in Unna began.
today
With the parish of Hamm a common design space of Ev was. Church formed by Westphalia. In 2008 the church district concept was published with the heading Inviting, hospitable, inspiring .
structure
The Synod of Ev. Church district is the representation of the parishes and the synodal services. The district synod elects the members of the district synod board, which leads the church district between the district synods. The chairman is the superintendent . Hans-Martin Böcker has been the superintendent since 2015.
Churches and parishes
To Ev. Church district Unna belongs to 13 parishes.
| image | church | place | local community |
|---|---|---|---|
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Church of the Resurrection | Bergkamen- Weddinghofen | Friedenskirchengemeinde |
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Thomas Church | Bergkamen | Friedenskirchengemeinde |
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Friedenskirche | Bergkamen | Friedenskirchengemeinde |
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Christ Church | Bergkamen-Rünthe | Martin Luther parish |
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Martin Luther Church | Bergkamen- Oberaden | Martin Luther parish |
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Chapel Heil | Bergkamen-Heil | Martin Luther parish |
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Dellwig Church | Fröndenberg - Dellwig | Dellwig |
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Billmerich Church | Unna- Billmerich | Dellwig |
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Johanneskirche | Fröndenberg- Frömern | Pious |
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Fröndenberg Collegiate Church | Fröndenberg | Fröndenberg & Bausenhagen |
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Village church | Fröndenberg- Bausenhagen | Fröndenberg & Bausenhagen |
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Heeren-Werve Church | Kamen - Heeren-Werve | Heeren-Werve |
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Evangelical Church Hemmerde | Unna- Hemmerde | Hemmerde-Lünern |
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Evangelical Church Lünern | Unna- Lünern | Hemmerde-Lünern |
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Church on the market | Holzwickede | Holzwickede & Opherdicke |
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Evangelical Church Opherdicke | Holzwickede- Opherdicke | Holzwickede & Opherdicke |
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Pauluskirche | Came | Came |
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Luther Church | Came | Came |
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Friedenskirche | Unna - masses | Crowds |
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Margaret Church | Kamen- Methler | Methler |
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Paul Gerhardt Church | Unna - Königsborn | Unna-Königsborn |
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Christ Church | Unna - Königsborn | Unna-Königsborn |
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Jonah house | Unna garden suburb | Unna |
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City Church | Unna | Unna |
Church district institutions
The headquarters of the administration and the superintendent are in the house of the church in Unna. The Ev. Church district Unna maintains the following specialist presentations:
- Adult education
- Family education
- Women's Department
- Youth Department
- Day care centers
- Men's work
- Media library
- Public Relations
- School department
- Pastoral care
The Social Service Agency is the church district since 1 January 2008 as Diakonie Ruhr-Hellweg in conjunction with the Social Service Agency works in the church circles Hamm and Hochsauerland-Soest.
Superintendent
| from | to | Surname |
|---|---|---|
| 1818 | 1821 | Gottlieb Trippler |
| 1822 | 1825 | Konrad Hoffmann |
| 1825 | 1828 | Franz Hopfensack |
| 1828 | 1830 | Johannes Krupp |
| 1830 | 1833 | Engelbert von Velsen |
| 1833 | 1835 | Ludwig Schneider |
| 1836 | 1842 | Karl Klingelhöller |
| 1842 | 1850 | Friedrich Buschmann |
| 1850 | 1862 | Hermann Ovenbeck |
| 1862 | 1900 | Ludwig Polscher |
| 1900 | 1903 | Rudolf Stapenhorst |
| 1905 | 1932 | Wilhelm Sybrecht |
| 1932 | 1948 | Karl Philipps |
| 1948 | 1968 | Gerhard Küstermann |
| 1968 | 1980 | Heinrich Kandzi |
| 1980 | 1994 | Heinrich Meier |
| 1994 | 2004 | Alfred Buss |
| 2004 | 2015 | Annette Muhr-Nelson |
| 2015 | 2020 | Hans-Martin-Böcker |
| 2020 | ... | Karsten Schneider |
literature
- Erika Externbrink-Klement: The church district of Unna . Ed .: Kirchenkreis Unna, self-published, Unna 1988.
- Willy Timm: The Unna Church District 1818–1993. Verlag Hellweg-Bücherei, Unna 1993, ISBN 3-87298-058-0 .