Provost district Eisenach-Erfurt
The Propstsprengel Eisenach-Erfurt is a subdivision of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany . In the total of five provost parishes , also called parishes or provosts, several church districts are combined to form a common supervisory district, which is presided over by a provost; but there is no joint administration and also no synod as at the level of the church districts.
The Propstsprengel Eisenach-Erfurt was formed on April 1, 2009 by amalgamating the Propstei Erfurt-Nordhausen with four church districts, which belonged to the western supervisory district of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thuringia , and is based in Eisenach . Provost ( regional bishop ) has been Christian Stawenow since 2013 .
structure
It consists of the following church districts :
- Bad Frankenhausen-Sondershausen
- Eisenach-Gerstungen
- Erfurt
- Gotha
- Mulhouse
- South Harz
- Waltershausen-Ohrdruf
When it was founded, the provost parish also included the Sömmerda parish. When this merged with the Eisleben parish in 2010, which belonged to the provost district Halle-Wittenberg , the area changed to that provost district.
history
The provost parish is one of two of the EKM, in which church districts from both predecessor churches are combined.
The Preliminary church leadership of the then to the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union belonging to the Church Province of Saxony decided in January 1946, the three Generalsuperintendenturen as supervisory districts through seven deaneries (1947 came to an eighth) to replace. In the administrative district of Erfurt these were the provosts of Erfurt (with the area of today's church districts Erfurt and Henneberger Land as well as the southern part of today's church district Eisleben-Sömmerda) and southern Harz (with headquarters in Nordhausen and the area of today's church districts Mühlhausen and southern Harz). The two provosts were united in 1994 to form the Erfurt-Nordhausen provost's office.
In the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thuringia , too , four supervisory districts were formed in 1946, for which senior church councils from the regional church office were commissioned as visitors. There were the supervisory districts East (with seat in Gera), Middle (with seat in Weimar), West (with seat in Gotha) and South (with seat in Meiningen). The middle supervisory district was dissolved in 1998 and its area was divided between the three other supervisory districts. Since then, the church districts Apolda-Buttstädt, Bad Frankenhausen-Sondershausen, Eisenach-Gerstungen, Gotha, Waltershausen-Ohrdruf and Weimar have belonged to the western supervisory district.
Provosts or visitors
Erfurt
- 1946–1948: Gerhard Gloege
- 1948–1950: Gottfried Hein
- 1950–1973: Walter Verwiebe
- 1973–1994: Heino Falcke
South Harz
- 1946–1956: Fritz Führ
- 1956–1975: Johannes Hoffmann
- 1975–1985: Rolf Stubbe
- 1986–1994: Joachim Jaeger
Erfurt-Nordhausen
- 1994–2000: Joachim Jaeger
- 2000–2010: Elfriede Greich
West supervisory district
- 1946–1963: Oskar Ziegner
- 1963–1975: Hans Kühlke
- 1975–1988: Walter Saft
- 1988–1998: Burkhard Schröter
- 1998–2000: Peter Zimmermann (previously visitor to the Central Supervisory District)
- 2000–2009: Reinhard Werneburg
Eisenach-Erfurt
- 2010–2013: Reinhard Werneburg
- 2013–: Christian Stawenow
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Carsten Nicolaisen , Ruth Pabst: Handbook of the German Protestant Churches 1918 to 1949. Organs - Offices - Associations - Persons. Volume 2: State and Provincial Churches . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-647-55794-6 , p. 248.