Witzenhausen church district
| Witzenhausen church district | |
|---|---|
 Liebfrauenkirche in Witzenhausen |
|
| organization | |
| Regional church | Kurhessen-Waldeck |
| statistics | |
| Parishes | 49 |
| Parishioners | 27,567 |
| management | |
| dean | Ulrike Laakmann |
| Web presence | www.kirchenkreis-witzenhausen.de |
The church district Witzenhausen was a church district of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck (EKKW) in the Kassel district. On January 1, 2020, it merged with the neighboring parish of Eschwege to form the Werra-Meißner parish .
27,567 Protestant Christians lived in the 49 parishes of the church district. There were 23 pastors, five church-sponsored day-care centers and a Protestant student community . The last head of the church district was dean Ulrike Laakmann. The seat of the church district is Witzenhausen .
Communities
The church district extended roughly across the political communities of the old district of Witzenhausen and consisted of the parishes :
- Albshausen
- Allendorf
- Bad Sooden
- mountains
- Blickershausen
- Dohrenbach
- Dudenrode
- Eichenberg
- Ellershausen
- Ellingerode
- Epterode
- Reduce
- Friedrichsbrück
- Fürstenhagen
- Gertenbach
- Großalmerode
- Günsterode
- Hausen
- Hebenshausen
- Hermannrode
- Hessian Lichtenau
- Hilgershausen
- Hollstein
- Hopfelde
- Hubenrode
- Hundelshausen
- Kammerbach
- Kleinalmerode
- Kleinvach
- Kitchens
- Laudenbach
- Marzhausen
- New Zealand
- Oberrieden
- Orferode
- Quentel
- Reichenbach
- Retterode
- Rommerode
- Rossbach
- Trubenhausen
- Uengsterode
- Dissatisfied
- Velmeden
- Walburg
- Weissenbach
- Wendershausen
- Werleshausen
- Wickersrode
- Witzenhausen
- Ziegenhagen
location
It bordered the church districts of Kaufungen in the west of the Electorate of Hesse , Melsungen in the south and Eschwege in the east.