District Calenberg-Hoya
The Sprengel Calenberg-Hoya was a historical administrative district of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover , which existed from 1957 to 2007. Most recently it included the church districts of Grafschaft Schaumburg , Hameln-Pyrmont , Hoya , Nienburg , Springe , Stolzenau- Loccum and Syke .
history
As a result of the abolition of the four previous general superintendentages and the appointment of "provosts" by the German Christians (1934), regional bishop August Marahrens appointed seven episcopal vicars who were commissioned to support the pastors' community, to attend parish conventions and to visit parishes . When the power struggle between the German Christians and the regional bishop was decided in favor of the latter, the office of regional superintendent was created in place of the episcopal vicars on June 15, 1936, who took over the spiritual supervision within a district.
The district boundaries were initially based on the boundaries of the historical landscapes of the Kingdom of Hanover. In 1957 the Sprengel was reformed; the previous district of Verden-Hoya was dissolved and its church districts were assigned to other state superintendent offices. The church districts of Hoya, Nienburg, Stolzenau and Syke were transferred to the previous district of Calenberg . Its four Hanoverian church districts (Hanover I-III and Hanover-Linden) were separated and merged to form the district of Hanover , the Sulingen church district went to Osnabrück and the previous Calenberg church districts Bodenwerder and Coppenbrügge were added to the district of Hildesheim . The newly created district was now called Calenberg-Hoya, and Johannes Schulze became the first state superintendent on April 1, 1957 .
In 1969 the church districts Neustadt am Rübenberge, Pattensen, Ronnenberg and Wunstorf were separated from the district and incorporated into the district of Hanover .
The official seat of the state superintendent was initially Hanover. In 1969 he was relocated to Celle, 1977 to Nienburg.
In 2001, a part of the parish of Springe was added to the parish of Laatzen-Pattensen in the district of Hanover, which was subsequently renamed the parish of Laatzen-Springe. Another part was added to the Ronnenberg parish. The church district office in Springe was gradually merged with the office in Ronnenberg , and the superintendent there was dissolved.
In 2007 the district was dissolved.
State superintendent
- April 1, 1957 - January 31, 1969 Johannes Schulze DD
- February 1, 1969 - March 31, 1971 vacancy; Vacancy representation by: Hans-Helmut Peters, State Superintendent of Celle
- April 1, 1971 - July 31, 1976 Hans-Helmut Peters
- September 15, 1976 - 1984 Dr. Günter Linnenbrink
- November 1, 1984 - December 31, 1999 Hein Spreckelsen
- March 1, 2000 - October 31, 2006 Arend de Vries
- November 1, 2006 - June 30, 2007 vacancy; Vacancy representation by: Doris Janssen-Reschke , State Superintendent of Osnabrück
literature
- Hans Otte : 50 years of state superintendencies in the Ev.-luth. Regional Church of Hanover . In: Yearbook of the Society for Lower Saxony Church History 84 (1986), pp. 245–255
Individual evidence
- ^ Church gazette for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover 1969, p. 232.
- ^ History of the Ev.-luth. Church district Laatzen-Springe ( Memento of the original from December 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 21, 2010
- ^ A b Information from the regional church archive in Hanover from September 17, 2010