District of Hanover

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The district of Hanover is one of six not independent sub-districts of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover , which is divided into the districts of Hanover, Hildesheim-Göttingen , Lüneburg , Osnabrück , Ostfriesland-Ems and Stade .

geography

The district of Hanover is located in the center of Lower Saxony and the Hanoverian regional church. It borders in the west on the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Schaumburg-Lippe , in the south and east on the district of Hildesheim-Göttingen and in the north on the district of Lüneburg.

The area of ​​the Sprengel essentially corresponded to the boundaries of the Hanover region until the Sprengel structural reform decided on July 1, 2007 by the regional synod in November 2006 . With effect from 1 July 2007, the Sprengel Hannover to date for resolution was Sprengel Calenberg-Hoya associated church districts Nienburg , Stolzenau-Loccum and county Schaumburg extended.

history

The separation of the four municipal supervisory districts Hannover I – III and Hannover-Linden from the Sprengel Calenberg was discussed for the first time in 1949 in the course of the planned dissolution of the Sprengel Verden-Hoya and the unification of part of the local church districts with Calenberg. Ultimately, however, the plans were only implemented through a decree of the regional church office of May 29, 1957 with the formation of a separate district "City of Hanover". Through the ecclesiastical law on the formation of the Hanover district of November 18, 1969, which came into force on January 1, 1970, it was assigned to the church districts of Neustadt am Rübenberge, Pattensen, Ronnenberg , which up until that time also belonged to Calenberg-Hoya and Wunstorf, as well as by the church districts Burgdorf and Burgwedel (formerly Sprengel Celle) enlarged. At the same time the name was changed from Sprengel Stadt Hannover to Sprengel Hannover.

structure

Sprengel Hannover currently has nine church districts: The City Church Association Hanover , the church district Burgdorf , Kirchenkreis Burgwedel-Langenhagen , Kirchenkreis County Schaumburg , church district Laatzen-Springe , church district Neustadt-Wunstorf , church district Nienburg , Kirchenkreis Ronnenberg and the church district Stolzenau-Loccum .

State superintendent

management

The Sprengels are managed by the State Superintendent , based in Hanover .

From here, episcopal tasks are carried out, which are delegated by the bishop's office in Hanover for reasons of distance alone. The incumbents of the state superintendent are therefore often called " regional bishops ".

State superintendent

The state superintendent is a member of the bishops' council of the regional church. The Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis is the sermon church of the state superintendent.

Sprengelbeirat

The regional superintendent is supported by the Sprengelbeirat, whose twelve members come from all church districts of the Sprengel. The district council was abolished in all districts of the regional church by resolution of the regional synod in autumn 2009.

Ephoric Convention

The leading clergy of the church districts, the superintendents , form the Ephorenkonvent des Sprengels. One of these office holders is also the deputy of the state superintendent.

District members of the regional synod

The district of Hanover sends and appoints members to the highest parliamentary body of the Hanover regional church, the regional synod .

Current regional synodals from the district are:

  1. Rolf Bade, Ministerialrat, Hanover
  2. Wencke Breyer, Hanover
  3. Susanne Briese-Koehler, Pastor, Wunstorf
  4. Kerstin Dede, deacon, Hanover
  5. Birgitt Dressel, Garbsen
  6. Christian Sundermann, Superintendent, Hanover
  7. Rolf Ebritsch, Hanover
  8. Christa Elsner-Solar, Hanover
  9. Dorothee Lüdeke, deacon, Hanover
  10. Robert Kurz, Langenhagen
  11. Magdalena Hentschel, Laatzen
  12. Jürgen Haake, Gehrden
  13. Abbot D. Horst Hirschler , Loccum ( born member )

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Church gazette for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover 1969, p. 232.
  2. ↑ http://www.landeskirche-hannovers.de/evlka-de/presse-und-medien/nachrichten/2017/01/2017_01_25_3

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