Religions in Dortmund

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Christianity

Denomination statistics

Of the 602,556 inhabitants of Dortmund currently (as of December 31, 2018) 161,826 (26.9%) belong to the Protestant, 153,506 (25.5%) to the Catholic Church, 287,224 (47.7%) have another denomination or religion or are non-denominational.

Religious history up to the Reformation

The city of Dortmund has belonged to the Archdiocese of Cologne since its foundation and was the seat of an archdeaconate. From 1523 the Reformation gradually gained a foothold. But it was not until 1562 that the Lord's Supper was distributed in both forms . The city was then predominantly Protestant.

Protestant church

As a Free Imperial City, Dortmund was also able to regulate religious affairs itself, and so the city received a new church regiment in 1570. The Lutheran creed was predominant . The Reformed Confession was not allowed at all until 1786. In 1625 the council established the Superintendentur Dortmund. From this, after the transition to Prussia, the later church district of Dortmund emerged within the Evangelical Church in Prussia or its Westphalian provincial church. The church district of Dortmund was later divided into four church districts.

With the Lutherans, however, a decrease in church affiliation was noticeable after 1900. In addition, there were church resignations.

In 1960 the Dortmund church district was divided into four church districts. Until the end of 2013, the church districts Dortmund-Mitte-Nordost (12 parishes) were formed, in 2002 the church districts Dortmund-Mitte and Dortmund-Nordost, Dortmund-Süd (8 parishes) and Dortmund-West (5 parishes) merged with their associated parishes the neighboring parishes of Lünen (4 parishes) the "United Church Districts Dortmund - Association of Protestant Parishes and Church Districts in Dortmund and Lünen". On January 1st, 2014 the four church districts united to form the Evangelical Church District Dortmund. With its 28 parishes, 24 in Dortmund, 3 in Lünen and one in Selm, it is part of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia (see also: Library of the Evangelical Church District Dortmund ).

The Protestant Church had the majority of the population in its lists until around 1980, but it is also in the minority in its traditional focus areas of Kemminghausen, Brechte, Lindenhorst and Syburg. In Dortmund there has been no Reformed congregation in Dortmund for several years due to the merger of the Wellinghofen Evangelical Reformed congregation with another in the district.

Roman Catholic Church

After the introduction of the Reformation there were only a few Catholics in the city of Dortmund who still belonged to the Archdiocese of Cologne; the Huckarde , which belongs to the Essen principality , remained Catholic . Initially, only the monastery churches were left for worship. In 1616 the Dominican monastery received parish rights again.

After 1803 the Catholic monastery churches were either secularized or even broken off. The church of the abolished Dominican monastery was preserved as a provost church. In 1821 the Catholics were assigned to the re-established diocese or archbishopric of Paderborn . As a result of heavy immigration in the 19th century, the number of Catholics also increased. In 1832 Dortmund became the seat of a Catholic deanery , which was later divided into the deaneries center, northeast, south and west. At the beginning of 2007 these deaneries were merged again, so that today all parishes of the city of Dortmund belong to the deanery Dortmund.

Orthodox churches

The Greek Orthodox Church , the Russian Orthodox Church , the Serbian Orthodox Church and the Macedonian Orthodox Church are represented in Dortmund .

Dortmund was the seat of the Commission of the Orthodox Church in Germany , whose work has now passed into the hands of the Orthodox Bishops' Conference in Germany , whose secretariat is also based in Dortmund.

Free Churches

In addition to the parishes of the Roman Catholic Church and the Evangelical Regional Church, there are also various free churches in Dortmund , including several Evangelical Free Churches ( Baptists ) (Christ Church Dortmund-Mitte, Feldherrnstraße, Bridge Community Dortmund-Hörde , Resurrection Community Dortmund-Eving , Evangelical Free Church Community Dortmund-Asseln , Evangelical Free Church Community Dortmund-Mitte, Saarbrücker Straße and Evangelical Free Church Community Dortmund-Huckarde ), the Free Evangelical Community Dortmund-Körne and the Evangelical Methodist Church Dortmund-Mitte.

Other churches and special communities

The New Apostolic Church , Catholic Apostolic Congregations , Jehovah's Witnesses and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are also represented in Dortmund. When the then New Apostolic District Apostle Walter Schmidt was appointed Chief Apostle in 1960 , Dortmund also became the seat of the New Apostolic Church International until 1975. Today the New Apostolic Church North Rhine-Westphalia has its seat in Dortmund.

Islam

The most important non-Christian religious community in Dortmund is Islam .

The Islamic structures in Dortmund were founded in associations of mostly Turkish-born migrant workers. The Association of Turkish Workers in Dortmund and the surrounding area, founded in 1966, set up the first Islamic place of prayer in 1973 in a former Protestant parish hall in the north of Dortmund. In the mid-1970s there were numerous foundings of associations with a shared religious identity. These communities were often supported by the Office for Religious Affairs ( Turkish : Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı , or DİB for short), which had sent Islamic theologians trained in Turkey to German mosque associations since the early 1970s . In November 1976 the first Islamic theologian was welcomed to Dortmund as a teacher and prayer leader.

Between 1979 and 1983 the Dortmund Islamic Community existed as an independent umbrella organization for the Islamic communities in Dortmund. This dissolved in 1983, as the establishment of a so-called Diyanet Foundation was planned by the religious attaché of the Turkish embassy. This foundation was ultimately not realized and most of the Dortmund communities finally joined the Turkish-Islamic Union of the Institute for Religion (Turkish: Diyanet İşleri Türk İslam Birliği , short: DITIB). Ten communities in Dortmund belong to the DITIB today.

In addition to these communities of Turkish state Islam, there are about 25 other mosque communities in Dortmund that belong to different associations or are related and have different ethnic backgrounds. Of the larger Islamic associations in Germany are u. a. represented:

When it became clear in the 1990s that the migrant workers should stay in Dortmund permanently, this also had an impact on the mosque associations. The associations, which had been loosely organized up to that point, were organized according to German association law and aimed at non-profit status. The places of prayer, previously often housed in rear buildings, moved to the front buildings. Islam became more visible. The trend towards the construction of representative mosques, as can be observed all over Germany, has also found its way into Dortmund. In the Hörde district, for example, an Islamic center with a representative mosque was built by the DITIB mosque community in Dortmund-Hörde.

In autumn 2007, representatives of most of the mosque communities, including all important Islamic associations, formed a “Council of Muslim Communities in Dortmund”.

As in other German cities, the ezan , the muezzin's call to prayer , led to disputes with the partly Christian, but largely secularized environment .

Alevis

The Alevi Congregation Dortmund was founded in 1988 and has its own Cemhaus in Dortmund-Eving . She is a member of the AABF .

Judaism

The settlement of Jews in Dortmund is documented as early as the Middle Ages. At that time people prayed with a mikvah in their own prayer house . After pogroms in the 16th century, larger numbers of Jews settled again in the first half of the 19th century. In 1895 the Old Synagogue in Dortmund was built as a central, representative place of worship . In addition to this place of prayer, there were also synagogues in the Dortmund suburbs of Dorstfeld and Hörde. During the National Socialist rule, the Dortmund synagogues were destroyed.

The Holocaust decimated the Jewish population in Dortmund to a few people.

Due to the influx of Jewish people from the former Soviet Union, the Jewish community grew again significantly in the 1990s. Today the Jewish religious community ( unitary community with an Orthodox -religious character) has 4200 members. In addition to a synagogue, it also runs a kindergarten. The Jewish part of Dortmund's main cemetery is now actively used again.

Dortmund is also the seat of the regional association of the Jewish communities of Westphalia-Lippe .

Hinduism

For the Hindu community living in Dortmund Tamils is Sri Kamadchi-Ampal Temple in Hamm of great importance. The Sri Chinmoy Group has existed since the 2000s .

Other religious communities

Furthermore Dortmund hosts two Thai - Buddhist community centers: the Wat Pah Analayo and Wat Dhammabharami and the Buddhist Center Dortmund the Karma Kagyu -line.

There is also a Baha'i community.

Interreligious Dialogue

The origins of the Christian-Islamic dialogue in Dortmund can be found in the working group for religion and ideology initiated in 1969 by the then Rheinisch-Westfälische Auslandsgesellschaft . In the 1990s, the first direct contacts between Christian and Islamic communities took place in the Church and Mosque working group . These two working groups no longer exist today (as of May 2007).

Since 1993, the Dortmund Islamic Seminar, initiated jointly by Christians and Muslims, has been dedicated to interreligious cooperation between Muslims and Christians. The Islamic seminar is sponsored by the Abu-Bakr-Mosque Dortmund (Islamic Association Dortmund), the Mosque Bachstrasse of the VIKZ , the Evangelical Church District Dortmund, the Catholic Forum Dortmund and the Dortmund DITIB congregations.

The Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation Dortmund is dedicated to the coexistence of Jews and Christians in Dortmund .

Since 1996 an “interreligious prayer” has been held once a year, which is celebrated in the form of a multi-religious celebration with an interreligious closing prayer. Its sponsors include the Protestant and Catholic Church in Dortmund, several mosque communities, the Jewish religious community and the Baha'i community as well as several organizations of interreligious dialogue.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dortmund Statistics Annual Report 2019 page 8 (PDF) accessed on September 26, 2019
  2. ^ Wilhelm Heinrich Neuser : Evangelical Church History of Westphalia in the ground plan . Bielefeld 2002. ISBN 3-7858-0443-1 . P. 93ff.

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