Provost district Halle-Wittenberg

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The Propstsprengel Halle-Wittenberg 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 provost parish Halle-Wittenberg was formed on August 1, 2012 by amalgamating the parishes Halle-Naumburg and Kurkreis Wittenberg and comprises seven church districts . The seat of the regional bishop is Halle (Saale) .

Location and structure

The Provostspengel comprises the southern part of the state of Saxony-Anhalt (excluding the area of ​​the Duchy and later Free State of Anhalt ) and also larger areas in the states of Brandenburg (mainly in the Elbe-Elster district ), Saxony (mainly in the northern Saxony district ) and Thuringia (especially in the Sömmerda district ). It consists of the following church districts:

  • Eisleben-Sömmerda
  • Halle-Saalkreis
  • Merseburg
  • Bad Liebenwerda
  • Naumburg-Zeitz
  • Torgau-Delitzsch
  • Wittenberg

history

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 Merseburg these were the three provosts Halle-Merseburg (with the area of ​​today's church districts Halle-Saalkreis, Merseburg and the northern part of the church district Eisleben-Sömmerda), (Kurkreis) Wittenberg (with the area of ​​today's church districts Bad Liebenwerda, Torgau-Delitzsch and Wittenberg) and Naumburg (largely congruent with today's church district Naumburg-Zeitz). Halle and Naumburg were united in 1996 to form the Halle-Naumburg provost's office.

After Martin Herche , the provost of Halle-Naumburg, moved to the office of general superintendent of the Görlitz district of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz in January 2011 , the Wittenberg provost Siegfried Kasparick († 2016) took over the vacancy representation of the Sprengel. On November 18, 2011, the regional synod elected the former Oberkirchenrat Johann Schneider as the first regional bishop of the united district. On June 24, 2012, Schneider was introduced to his new office with a service in the Marktkirche in Halle and took up his duties a week later.

The former parish of Sömmerda belonged to the provost office of Erfurt-Nordhausen until 2008 and thus became part of the provost district of Eisenach-Erfurt . After joining forces with the Eisleben parish in 2010, the entire Eisleben-Sömmerda parish belonged to the provost district of Halle-Wittenberg.

Toast

Halle-Merseburg

Naumburg

  • 1946–1961: Max Müller
  • 1962–1974: Gustav Coym
  • 1975–1986: Günter Bronisch
  • 1988–1996: Waldemar Schewe

Halle-Naumburg

Wittenberg district

Halle-Wittenberg

  • 2009–2011: Martin Herche
  • 2011–2012: Siegfried Kasparick (acting)
  • since 2012: Johann Schneider

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.ekmd.de/attachment/aa234c91bdabf36adbf227d333e5305b/d6bdf1144c5b11dfb68b6d006d175e465e46/Propstsprengel_Uebersicht.pdf
  2. ↑ http://www.ekmd.de/attachment/aa234c91bdabf36adbf227d333e5305b/1dff4baed5ef4d8f4ba11df8aa32781f8a90d900d90/DS_10.1B.pdf
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ↑ http://www.ekmd.de/aktuellpresse/pm/kps/15801.html