Ecclesiastical Province of Poznan

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The ecclesiastical province of Posen was one of the ecclesiastical provinces of the Protestant regional church in Prussia and its successor church, the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union (APU). Together with the province of Posen, it comprised the areas that Prussia had been assigned to by the partition of Poland until 1815.

Seal of the Poznan Consistory

As in the other ecclesiastical provinces, the highest administrative authority was a consistory based in the capital of the province (i.e. in Poznan until 1919 ), which in the 19th century was mostly headed by the chief president. A full-time consistorial president was only installed later than in other provinces.

After most of the province came under Polish rule in 1919, the remaining parts of the Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia administrative district (based in Schneidemühl ) were formed and in 1922 elevated to the province of the same name. The ecclesiastical province was also called the ecclesiastical province Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia from 1923 , which was dissolved on April 1, 1941.

From 1921 to 1923, the newly formed consistory in Schneidemühl was under the general superintendent of the Pomeranian Ostsprengels. The church in the areas that fell to Poland existed until 1940 under the name Unierte Evangelische Kirche in Polen , then until 1944 as the Evangelical Church in Wartheland .

General superintendent

The following general superintendents existed:

Consistorial President

The consistory in Schneidemühl continued to exist as a branch office of the consistory in Stettin after the church province was dissolved in 1941 .

Church districts

The ecclesiastical province was subdivided into Lutheran church districts. A church district was usually spatially congruent with a district. Each church district was usually identical to the administrative district of a superintendent, which was officially called the diocese . Most of the parishes and church districts fell to the Uniate Evangelical Church in Poland in 1919. The new German-Polish border cut some church districts and also individual parishes. Therefore, these were partially re-cut on both sides. The church districts Deutsch-Krone, Flatow and Schlochau were added from the dissolved church province of West Prussia .

When the church province was dissolved in 1941, the church districts Deutsch-Krone, Flatow, Schlochau and Schneidemühl came to the church province of Pomerania , the church districts Karge (excluding the parish of Schwenten) and Meseritz to the church province of Brandenburg and the parish of Fraustadt and the parish in Schwenten to the church province of Silesia .

In 1898 the ecclesiastical province consisted of a total of 209 parishes:

Church district Associated parishes
pear tree Lindenwald, Lindenwerder, Lobsens , Neustadt bei Pinne , Prittisch, Radusch , Schweinert, Waitze, Zirke
Bojanowo Bojanowo , Görchen , Jutroschin , Kröben , Punitz (Petrigemeinde), Rawitsch , Sandberg , Sarne
Bromberg Bromberg, Ciele , Crone an der Brahe , Fordon , Gogolin - Lutschmin - Schanzendorf , Lochowo, Osielsk , Otterau - Langenau , Schleusenau , Schulitz , Sienno , Wilhelmsort
Czarnikau Behle, Czarnikau , Gembitz , Romanshof, Runau, Schönlanke, Staykowo, Stieglitz
Excluded Deaconess House (Posen), St. Paulikirche (Posen)
Filehne Altsorge , Eichberg, Filehne , Groß-Drensen, Groß-Kotten, Green Party, Kreuz
Woman city Driebitz (Alt), Altstadt (Fraustadt), Neustadt (Fraustadt), Heyersdorf, Luschwitz , Oberpritschen, Schlichtingsheim , Ulbersdorf
Gniezno Gnesen , Groß-Golle, Kletzko , Libau , Revier, Rogowo , Schidlowitz, Schocken , Schwarzenau , Stralkowo , Tremessen , Welnau , Witkowow
Inowrazlaw Elsendorf (from July 29, 1862) (previously to Grünkirch), Groß-Neudorf, Großsee , Grünkirch , Inowrazlaw , Kaisersfelde, Klein Morin , Kruschwitz , Kwiecischewo , Louisenfelde , Mogilno , Montwy , Pakosch , Strelno
Barren Bentschen , Bomst, Chlastawe , Friedenhorst , Karge, Kopnitz, Kranz, Neutomischel , Tirschtiegel
Kolmar Brodden , Budsin , Gollantsch , Jankendorf, Kolmar , Margonin , Schneidemühl , Usch , Zachasberg
Krotoschin Dobrzyca , Kobylin , Koschmin , Krotoschin , Pogorzela , Zduny
Lissa Feuerstein , costs , Kotusch , Kreuzkirche (Lissa) , Lubin , Razot , Travel Schmiegel , Storchnest
Praise Brostowo - Friedheim , Grabau , Klein-Dreidorf , Lindenwald , Lindenwerder, Lobsens, Mrotschen , Nakel , Runowo, Sadke , Samotschin , Weißenhöhe , Wirsitz , Wissek
Meseritz Bauchwitz, Betsche, Brätz, Meseritz, Pieske, Politzig, Schwerin an der Warthe, Weissensee
Obornik Gramsdorf, Murowana Goslin , Obornik , Polajewo , Rogasen
Poznan I Bnin , Czempin , Jersitz , Kostschin , Krosno, Nekla-Hauland , Kreuzkirche (Posen), Pudewitz , Schroda , Schwersenz , Stenschewo , Wreschen
Poznan II Laßwitz , Johanniskirche (Lissa), Orzeszkowo , Petrikirche (Posen), Jacobi parish ( Waschke )
Velvet Duschnik , Neubrück , Obersitzko , Peterawe, Pinne , Rokietnica , Samter , Wronke
Schildberg Adelnau , Bralin (belonging to Silesia until 1920), Grabow , Kempen (Kępno) , Kobylagora , Laski- Opatow , Latowitz
Schrimm Borek , Breitenfeld , Jarotschin , Neustadt an der Warthe , Pleschen , Santomischel , Schrimm , Sobotka, Xions
Schubin Bartschin , Exin , Groß-Mirkowitz, Kowalewko, Labischin , Neukirchen , Rynarschewo, Schubin , Wongrowitz , Zerniki , Znin
Wollstein Buk , Grätz , Hammer-Boruy , Jymbol , Konkolewo-Hauland , Kuschlin , Opalenitza , Rakwitz , Rostarschewo , Schwenten, Wollstein

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Overview of the provinces. In: Evangelisches Zentralarchiv Berlin. 2016, accessed February 29, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b c Handbook of the German Protestant Churches 1918 to 1949: Organs - Offices - Associations - Persons , edited by Heinz Boberach, Carsten Nicolaisen and Ruth Pabst, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2010, (= work on contemporary church history; Series A, Quellen, Vol. 20), Vol. 2 'Landes- und Provinzialkirchen', p. 159.
  3. ↑ Handbook of the German Protestant Churches 1918 to 1949: Organs - Offices - Associations - People , edited by Heinz Boberach, Carsten Nicolaisen and Ruth Pabst, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2010, (= work on contemporary church history; Series A, sources, vol . 20), Vol. 2 'Landes- und Provinzialkirchen', p. 413.
  4. ↑ According to the lists of offices in Johann Friedrich Gerhard Goeters , Joachim Rogge (ed., On behalf of the Evangelical Church of the Union): The history of the Evangelical Church of the Union. A manual. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig; Vol. 1, 1992, p. 419; Vol. 2, 1994, p. 500; Vol. 3, 1999, p. 873.
  5. ↑ According to the lists of offices in Johann Friedrich Gerhard Goeters , Joachim Rogge (ed., On behalf of the Evangelical Church of the Union): The history of the Evangelical Church of the Union. A manual. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig; Vol. 1, 1992, p. 421; Vol. 2, 1994, p. 503; Vol. 3, 1999, p. 876.
  6. ↑ Handbook of the German Protestant Churches 1918 to 1949: Organs - Offices - Associations - People , edited by Heinz Boberach, Carsten Nicolaisen and Ruth Pabst, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2010, (= work on contemporary church history; Series A, sources, vol . 20), Vol. 2 'Landes- und Provinzialkirchen', p. 158. ISBN 9783525557945 .
  7. ^ Working group of East German family researchers: Evangelical Church in Posen. 2016, accessed February 29, 2016 .