Provost of Upper Hesse

The Propstei Oberhessen is one of the five provosts (regional divisions) of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau . It covers the area of ​​the historic Hessian province of Upper Hesse . The seat of the provost is Giessen , the current provost (since 2009) is pastor Matthias Schmidt. Upper Hesse has 335,000 church members and 280 pastors.

Dean's offices

Upper Hesse comprises seven deaneries with around 300 parishes :

• Deanery Büdinger Land , Büdingen . 77 congregations, 73,000 members. Created in 2016 through the merger of the Büdingen, Nidda and Schotten deans.
• Deanery pouring , pouring. 29 congregations, 57,000 members.
• Deanery Grünberg , Grünberg . 34 congregations, 25,000 members.
• Deanery Hungen , Lich . 19 parishes, 20,000 members.
• Evang. Deanery Kirchberg , Fernwald . 18 congregations, 25,000 members.
• Deanery Vogelsberg , Alsfeld . 85 congregations, 53,000 members. First created in 2000 through the merger of the Lauterbach and Herbstein deaneries to form the old Vogelsberg deanery, then in 2019 through the merger of that deanery with the Alsfeld deanery .
• Deanery Wetterau , Friedberg . 56 parishes, 75,000 members.

history

The provost's office was created during the reorganization of the Evangelical State Church of Nassau-Hessen, which was created in 1934 by merging three churches . It essentially corresponded to the superintendent of Gießen, which had existed in the Evangelical Church in Hesse since the 16th century . The Hessian hinterland with the dean's offices Gladenbach and Biedenkopf, which had been incorporated into the Wiesbaden consistory district in 1867 , remained with the provost of Nassau .

Toast

• 1934 : Karl Knodt0000
• 1934–1936: Alfred Trommershausen (acting)
• 1936–1948: Karl Knodt (from 1945 initially acting superintendent)
• 1950–1963: Wilhelm Weinberger
• 1975–1991: Helmut Grün
• 1991–2009: Klaus Eibach
• from 2009: Matthias Schmidt

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ page "Provost"
2. ^ Website of the provost of Upper Hesse
3. ↑ Evangelical deanery Büdinger Land
4. ^ The Evangelical Dean's Office in Giessen
5. ^ Ecclesiastical working group of the Evangelical deaneries Grünberg, Hungen and Kirchberg: Das Dekanat Grünberg
6. ^ Ecclesiastical working group of the Protestant deaneries Grünberg, Hungen and Kirchberg: Das Dekanat Hungen
7. ↑ Ecclesiastical working group of the Protestant deaneries Grünberg, Hungen and Kirchberg: Das Dekanat
8. ↑ Evangelical deanery Vogelsberg
9. ↑ The Evangelical Dean's Office Wetterau ( Deeplink )
10. ^ Heinrich Steitz : History of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau. Fourth part. Marburg 1971, p. 561 f.