Prelature Ulm
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| Regional Church : | Evangelical Church in Württemberg |
| Prelate : | Gabriele Wulz |
| Area : | km² |
| Structure: | 9 church districts |
| Parishioners: | approx. 420,000 (2005) |
| Address of the prelature : |
Adlerbastei 1 89073 Ulm |
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The Ulm Prelature , also called "Sprengel Ulm", is one of four prelatures of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg . In contrast to the church district , which is a corporation under public law , the prelature has no legal personality. It is just an ecclesiastical administrative district. The leadership of the prelature is incumbent on the (male or female) prelate , also known as the " regional bishop ". This expresses that the prelate is a member of the church leadership and at the same time a regional church leader.
tasks
The prelate has the task of visiting the deans in his prelature . But he is also active in pastoral care among the pastors and helps to fill the parish parish posts again. He is a member of the College of the Upper Church Council .
area
The Ulm Prelature covers a relatively narrow strip of territory in the east of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg on the border with Bavaria , i.e. the area from Aalen in the north to Lake Constance in the south. Essentially, these are the East Wuerttemberg region , the Göppingen district , the Baden-Wuerttemberg part of the Danube-Iller region and the majority of the Bodensee-Oberschwaben region insofar as their areas do not belong to the Evangelical Church in Baden . It includes the church districts of Aalen , Biberach , Blaubeuren , Geislingen an der Steige , Göppingen , Heidenheim , Ravensburg , Schwäbisch Gmünd and Ulm . Until its dissolution on January 1, 1978, the Welzheim church district also belonged to the Ulm Prelature.
history
The prelatures go back to the earlier general superintendentures (also generalates) in Württemberg. These were used soon after the introduction of the Reformation at the sites of the former monasteries ( Adelberg , Bebenhausen , Denkendorf and Maulbronn ). At the head of each was a general superintendent who was subordinate to the provost of the collegiate church in Stuttgart. However, the office of general superintendent was usually not associated with the respective monastery seat, rather the administrative district only bore its name. In the course of history, the names of the general superintendent were changed several times.
As a Free Imperial City, Ulm did not belong to Württemberg until 1810. Therefore, there has only been a general superintendent in Ulm since 1810. In 1924 the general superintendentes became the prelatures. The area of the Ulm Prelature changed several times.
The main church of the Ulm Prelature is the Ulm Minster , in which the prelate regularly holds services. The prelate holds the traditional office of predicature that has existed in Ulm Minster since 1398 . This office obliges its holder to particularly qualified preaching in worship.
General superintendents and prelates since 1810
- 1810–1827: Johann Christoph von Schmid (1756–1827)
- 1828–1842: Karl Christian von Flatt (1772–1843)
- 1843–1851: Christian Nathanael von Osiander (1781–1855)
- 1851–1868: Albert von Hauber (1806–1883)
- 1868–1870: Ludwig von Weitzel (1808–1870)
- 1871–1883: Paul Friedrich von Lang (1815–1893)
- 1884–1897: Karl von Lechler (1820–1903)
- 1897–1900: Gottlieb Friedrich von Weitbrecht (1840–1911)
- 1901–1911: Emil von Demmler (1843–1922)
- 1912–1927: Heinrich von Planck (1851–1932)
- 1927–1937: Konrad Hoffmann (1867–1959); from October 9 to November 19, 1934, Dr. Karl Steger (1889–1954) was temporarily appointed by the DC
- 1937–1951: Walther Buder (1878–1961)
- 1951–1962: Erich Eichele (1904–1985)
- 1962–1969: Hermann Riess (1914–1990)
- 1969–1975: Friedrich Epting (1910–1983)
- 1976–1979: Hans von Keler (* 1925)
- 1979–1989: Helmut Aichelin (* 1924)
- 1989–1995: Rolf Scheffbuch (1931–2012)
- 1995–2001: Gerhard Maier (* 1937)
- 2001-today: Gabriele Wulz (* 1959)