Church district Ziegenhain
| Church district Ziegenhain | |
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 Castle church in Ziegenhain |
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| organization | |
| Regional church | Kurhessen-Waldeck |
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| Parishes | 59 |
| Parishioners | 40,000 |
| management | |
| dean | Christian Wachter |
| Web presence | www.ekkw.de/ziegenhain |
The church district Ziegenhain was a church district of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck in the Marburg district . On January 1, 2020, it merged with the neighboring church districts Fritzlar-Homberg and Melsungen to form the church district Schwalm-Eder .
Around 40,000 Protestant Christians lived in the 59 parishes of the church district. 32 pastors were responsible for them. The last head of the church district was Dean Christian Wachter. The seat of the church district was Ziegenhain .
Communities
The church district extended over the political communities of Breitenbach ( district of Hersfeld-Rotenburg ), Frielendorf , Gilserberg , Neukirchen , Oberaula , Ottrau , Schrecksbach , Schwalmstadt , Schwarzenborn , Willingshausen (all Schwalm-Eder district), Mengsberg ( district of Marburg-Biedenkopf ) and Alsfeld ( Vogelsbergkreis ).
The Ziegenhain parish last consisted of the following parishes:
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location
It bordered in the east on the parish of Hersfeld , in the north on the parish of Fritzlar-Homberg , in the west on the parish of Kirchhain (all EKKW) and in the south on the dean's office Vogelsberg ( EKHN ).