List of simultaneous churches in Alsace

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St. Georg, threefold simultaneous church in Rott : Roman Catholic , Lutheran and Reformed

The list of simultaneous churches in Alsace contains all 50 simultaneous churches still in existence in Alsace .

history

During the Reformation , Alsace was part of the German Empire . A large part of the local rulers introduced the Reformation in their territories in the course of the 16th century. These included: the Palatinate , the Duchy of Württemberg , the Hanau-Lichtenberg , the county Leiningen-Westerburg , the County of Nassau-Saarbrücken , the county Saarwerden that rule Assweiler that rule Diemeringen that barony Finstingen that rule Fleckenstein , the rule Rappoltstein , the rule Schöneck , the rule Sickingen and other imperial knighthood territories , as well as the cities of Colmar , Haguenau , Mulhouse , Münster , Strasbourg and Weißenburg . This historical area of ​​Alsace is now part of Alsace and Lorraine, and mainly to the Haute-Rhin and Bas-Rhin departments .

In the course of the reunion policy of the Roman Catholic King Louis XIV, begun in 1679 , a large part of these areas fell under French sovereignty. Part of this policy was the reintroduction of the Roman Catholic denomination . The church buildings were partly re-Catholicized, partly converted into simultaneous churches . With the economic boom and the increasing population in the 19th century, a policy was followed where it was possible to build a second church building and to separate the denominations spatially. Nevertheless, 50 simultaneous churches have survived to this day.

list

literature

  • Kathrin Ellwardt: Lutherans between France and the Reich: Church buildings in the Alsatian offices of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg under Johann Reinhard III. and Louis IX. In: New Magazine for Hanau History 2016, pp. 18–59.
  • Marc Lienhard: Introduction . In: Antoine Pfeiffer: Protestants d'Alsace et de Moselle . Oberlin 2006, pp. 6-9.
  • Bernard Vogler: Le Simultaneum . In: Antoine Pfeiffer: Protestants d'Alsace et de Moselle . Oberlin 2006, p. 297f.

Remarks

  1. Rappoltstein's rule has been mixed-denominational since the Reformation (Lienhard, p. 7).
  2. Hagenau has been a mixed denominational community since the Reformation (Lienhard, p. 7).

Individual evidence

  1. Lienhard, p. 7.
  2. Vogler, p. 297.
  3. Vogler, p. 298.