Pomesan Consistory

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The Pomesan Consistory was an administrative authority of the Lutheran Church ( Consistory ) in the territory of the Duchy and later Kingdom of Prussia . It was established in 1587 and disbanded in 1751. The consistory had its seat in Saalfeld .

history

The Pomesan consistory was the successor authority to the administration of the diocese of Pomesania . In the secular territory of the bishops, the Reformation was introduced in 1527 by Bishop Erhard von Queis, following the example of Duke Albrecht of Prussia . The parts of the diocese outside the Duchy of Prussia (i.e. the areas around Stuhm , Marienburg and Elbing ) were not affected by this and were beyond the jurisdiction of the now Lutheran bishops. After the death of the last bishop of Pomesania, Johann Wigand , in 1587, the title of bishop was abolished and the spiritual powers passed to the consistory, while the sovereign took over the hierarchical bishop privileges within the framework of the summit episcopate .

The area of responsibility of the Pomesan consistory was largely identical to that of the Oberland district . The area comprised two Lutheran archpriestries ( Prussian Holland and Saalfeld), in each of which the leading archpriest carried out the visitations . For the former bishopric of Samland , which Wigand had co-administered from 1577–1587, the Samland Consistory was established with its seat in Königsberg in Prussia . It included not only the Samland diocesan territory to lying in the Duchy part of Dözesangebiets the diocese of Warmia , but not the Warmia bishopric in Prussia royal share .

The Prussian estates repeatedly demanded the appointment of successor bishops, but did not get through to the sovereign. From 1736 the king finally appointed a general superintendent , who was subordinate to him and who restricted the independent consistorial work. In 1750, Friedrich II created the Lutheran Upper Consistory of Prussia in Berlin for the Lutherans of his monarchy (except for the Herrnhutern) . In the course of this, a year later the Pomesan and Samland consistory were merged to form the Prussian consistory based in Königsberg, which was now headed by the general superintendent.

composition

Banner of the Bishop of Pomesania, as it was waged at the Battle of Tannenberg (1410)

A consistory made its decisions collegially. The college consisted of the following six functions:

  • A President with the title of Official
  • Two spiritual assessors (usually the two archpriests of Saalfeld and Prussian Holland )
  • Two secular assessors (usually mayors or magistrates from the district)
  • A notary consistorii

The former Franciscan monastery in Saalfeld served as the official building in which the meetings took place and the files were kept . The district court was rebuilt on the property (Saalfeld No. 207, later Klosterstrasse 2) in 1901.

The official seal showed an eagle with a banner and the inscription "St. Johannes". The inscription read: SIGILLUM CONSISTORII POMESANIENSIS. The connection with the coat of arms of the bishops of Pomesania is obvious, even if the local historian Ernst Deegen did not notice it.

literature

  • Ernst Deegen, B. Church authorities and clergy, in: the same, history of the city of Saalfeld Ostpr. Festschrift to celebrate the 600th anniversary of the city in 1905. Saalfeld (East Prussia): Self-published by the author 1905. ( online ), pages 223 to 237.
  • Hans Klein, "Church authorities and clergy", in: Saalfeld: Fate of a German city in East Prussia , Kreisgemeinschaft Mohrungen eV (ed.) Compiled by Hans Klein based on Justizrat Deegen u. a. Leer: Rautenberg 1989. ISBN 3-7921-0410-5 , pp. 239-244.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Instruction, in front of the Lutheran Ober = Consistorium, established over all royal lands, de dato Berlin, October 4th. 1750 , printed in: Corpus Constitutionum Marchicarum, Oder Königl. Preussis. and Churfürstl. Brandenburgische in der Chur- and Marck Brandenburg, also incorporated Landen, published and issued regulations, Edicta, Mandata, Rescripta etc .: From the times of Frederick I Elector of Brandenburg, etc. bit under the government of Friderich Wilhelm, King in Prussia, etc. ad annum 1736. inclusive , IV. Continuatio, column 291ff.
  2. ^ Heinrich Friedrich Jacobson , History of the sources of the evangelical canon law of the provinces of Prussia and Posen, with documents and regestas , Königsberg in Pr .: Gebrüder Bornträger, 1839, (= history of the sources of the canon law of the Prussian state, with documents and registers; Tl. 1, vol. 2), p. 111, no ISBN.
  3. ^ Heinrich Friedrich Jacobson, History of the sources of the evangelical canon law of the provinces of Prussia and Posen, with documents and regestas , Königsberg in Pr .: Gebrüder Bornträger, 1839, (= history of the sources of the canon law of the Prussian state, with documents and registers; Tl. 1, vol. 2), p. 114, no ISBN.

Coordinates: 53 ° 50 ′ 47.9 "  N , 19 ° 36 ′ 24.2"  E