Limburg (church district)

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The Limburg district is one of the 11 districts of the Limburg diocese . It is largely congruent with the Hessian district Limburg-Weilburg , in addition there is the area around Diez and Katzenelnbogen in the south , which is part of the Rhineland-Palatinate Rhein-Lahn district .

Size and location

The district is rural - small district towns are the centers. Parts of the lower Westerwald represent the north of the district. Church-wise, the district is structured very differently: on the one hand Catholic "heartland" in the "golden ground" between Limburg and Bad Camberg and in the Westerwald, on the other hand diaspora situations in Diez and Katzenelnbogen and in the region Weilburg. About 92,000 Catholics live in the district, which also includes the episcopal city of Limburg . For comparison: The diocese of Limburg with its 11 districts has a total of 669,271 Catholics (December 31, 2008 / AP2010). It consists of 15 pastoral rooms , which are divided into four deaneries.

Parish of St. Peter and Paul Bad Camberg

consists of the church locations

  • St. Antonius, Bad Camberg-Oberselters
  • St. Ferrutius, Bad Camberg-Würges
  • St. Georg, Bad Camberg-Schwickershausen
  • St. Mauritius, Bad Camberg-Erbach
  • St. Peter and Paul, Bad Camberg
  • St. Wendelin, Bad Camberg-Dombach

Pastoral room Blasiusberg

  • St. Bartholomew, Dornburg-Wilsenroth
  • St. Margareta, Dornburg-Dorndorf
  • St. Martin, Dornburg-Frickhofen
  • St. Matthias, Dornburg-Langendernbach
  • St. Nikolaus, Elbe Valley-Dorchheim
  • St. Stephanus, Dornburg-Thalheim

Brechen-Hünstelden pastoral room

  • Holy Seven Brothers, Break-Overbreak
  • St. Georg, Brechen-Werschau
  • St. Marien, Hünstelden-Kirberg
  • St. Maximinus, Breaking Down

Dietkirchen pastoral area

  • St. Antonius, Limburg-Eschhofen
  • St. Jakobus, Limburg-Lindenholzhausen
  • St. Lubentius, Limburg-Dietkirchen
  • St. Nikolaus, Runkel-Dehrn

Pastoral room Diez

Pastoral area Elz-Offheim

  • St. John the Baptist, Elz
  • St. Servatius, Limburg-Offheim

Hadamar Pastoral Room

  • Visitation of the Virgin Mary, Hadamar-Steinbach
  • St. Egidius , Beselich-Obertiefenbach
  • St. Antonius Erem., Hadamar-Oberzeuzheim
  • St. Bartholomew, Limburg-Ahlbach
  • St. John Nepomuk, Hadamar
  • St. Leonhard, Hadamar-Oberweyer
  • St. Marien, Beselich-Niedertiefenbach
  • St. Peter, Hadamar-Niederzeuzheim
  • St. Peter in Chains, Hadamar-Niederhadamar

Pastoral room Katzenelnbogen

Pastoral area Limburg

  • St. Georg Cathedral, Limburg
  • Catholic Italian parish, Limburg
  • St. Hildegard, Limburg
  • St. Josef, Limburg Staffel
  • St. Marien, Limburg

Selters pastoral room

  • St. Christophorus, Selters-Niederselters
  • St. Margaretha, Weilrod-Hasselbach Hochtaunuskreis
  • St. Nikolaus, Selters-Haintchen
  • St. Petrus, Selters-Eisenbach

Pastoral room Villmar / Runkel

  • Visitation of the Virgin Mary, Runkel
  • St. Josef, Villmar-Aumenau
  • St. Lambertus, Runkel-Arfurt
  • St. Marien, Villmar-Langhecke
  • St. Peter and Paul, Villmar

Waldbrunn pastoral room

  • Annunciation, Waldbrunn-Hintermeilingen
  • St. John the Baptist, Waldbrunn-Lahr
  • St. Laurentius, Waldbrunn-Hausen
  • St. Leonhard, Waldbrunn-Fussingen
  • St. Maximinus, Waldbrunn-Ellar

Catholic parish Heilig Kreuz Oberlahn (seat Weilburg)

  • On January 1, 2019, Bishop Dr. Georg Bätzing the parish Heilig Kreuz Oberlahn (seat Weilburg) from the previous parishes of the pastoral area Weilburg-Mengerskirchen. This consisted of Heilig Kreuz Weilburg, St. Maria Magdalena Mengerskirchen, Dreifaltigkeit Weilmünster, St. Katharina Waldernbach, Mary's Birth Winkels, St. Hedwig Löhnberg, Christkönig Weinbach-Graeveneck, St. Laurentius Dillhausen and St. Michael Probbach.

District Dean

District dean is Andreas Fuchs, pastor of the Hadamar pastoral area.

Fuchs is the successor to Pastor Franz-Josef Kremer, who died on December 11, 2016.

Parish establishment

St. Christophorus Diezerland

comprises the municipalities of the Verbandsgemeinden Diez (with the exception of the municipality Eppenrod) and Aar-Einrich (with the exception of the municipality Bremberg) as well as the municipalities of Pohl , Lollschied and Obertiefenbach in the Rhein-Lahn district , founded in 2019.

Institutions and religious orders

The youth church Crossover , which was opened in July 2005, is located in the parish of Limburg . The seat of the district office is the Josefshaus in Hadamar.

  • ACK Working Group of Christian Churches, Limburg
  • Office for Catholic Religious Education, Hadamar
  • Caritas Association for the District of Limburg e. V.
  • Retreat and education house of the St. Vincenz Pallotti Foundation, Limburg
  • jobaktiv, advice center for youth professional help in the diocese of Limburg
  • KAB District Association Limburg, Limburg
  • Catholic family education center Limburg
  • KEB Bildungswerk Limburg
  • kfd district team, Limburg
  • kfd district association, Limburg
  • kfd regional team, Limburg - Lahn-Dill-Eder
  • KKV - Association of Catholics in Business and Administration, Limburg
  • KKV - Association of Catholics in Business and Administration, Wiesbaden
  • KKV diocesan association, Limburg
  • KKV Laetita, Limburg
  • Pastoral care of the prison, Diez
  • Walter-Adlhoch-Haus, Limburg

A number of branches of the Dernbacher sisters and the Limburg headquarters of the Pallottines shaped and shaped life in the church district.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.bistum-limburg.de/
  2. ↑ Homepage of the parish Heilig Kreuz Oberlahn. Retrieved January 1, 2019 .