Hildesheim-Göttingen district
The district of Hildesheim-Göttingen 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 , East Friesland-Ems and Stade . The state superintendent is based in Hildesheim .
Geographical location
The district is located in the southeast of Lower Saxony and the Hanoverian regional church . In the west it borders on the Evangelical Church of Westphalia , in the southwest and south on the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck , in the east on the Evangelical Church in Central Germany , and on the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church in Braunschweig (which is partly enclosed by the Sprengelgebiet ), as well as in the north and northwest to the districts of Lüneburg and Hanover.
In the north, the Berlin – Braunschweig – Hanover and Berlin – Braunschweig – Hildesheim railways run through the Sprengel area, which lies in a north-south direction on the Hanover – Kassel railway line .
The motorways that cross the Sprengel area show a similar course: the A 2 (Berlin – Hanover – Dortmund), the A 39 (Wolfsburg – Salzgitter – Hildesheim) and the A 7 (Hanover – Kassel).
History / structure
The district has only existed since the regional church district reform came into force on July 1, 2007. Before that, there were separate districts of Hildesheim (until 1957: Hildesheim-Harz ) and Göttingen (until 1957: Göttingen-Grubenhagen ). When the two areas were merged, the Hameln-Pyrmont parish was incorporated from the dissolved Calenberg-Hoya district, while the two church districts Gifhorn and Wolfsburg were transferred from the Hildesheim district to the Lüneburg district .
The result is the largest district of the Hanoverian regional church with nine church districts today : Göttingen, Hameln-Pyrmont (seat: Hameln), Harzer Land (seat: Osterode), Hildesheimer Land-Alfeld (seat: Alfeld and Elze), Hildesheim-Sarstedt (Seat: Hildesheim), Holzminden-Bodenwerder (seat: Holzminden), Leine-Solling (seat: Northeim), Münden (seat: Hann. Münden) and Peine. The Hildesheimer Land-Alfeld parish was created on January 1st, 2011 from the Hildesheimer Land and Alfeld parish, the Harzer Land parish on January 1st, 2013 from the Clausthal-Zellerfeld , Herzberg and Osterode parish .
In this area there are 433 parishes with 580,000 parishioners who are cared for by 446 pastors and 150 deacons in cooperation with around 500 preachers and lecturers , with almost 1000 church musicians , with almost 500 sextons and with more than 2200 church leaders as well as a large number of volunteer workers. 693 churches and chapels are available as places of worship.
In the area of the Sprengels the inhabitants are predominantly of the Evangelical Lutheran denomination. Exceptions are the areas of Eichsfeld and the Hildesheim area, in which there is a high proportion of the population with a Roman Catholic denomination . There is also the Evangelical Reformed " Dominion Plesse ".
State superintendent
management
The state superintendent, who has his official seat in Hildesheim, is responsible for managing the district. Episcopal tasks are carried out from here. The incumbents are therefore often called " regional bishops ".
The preaching church of the state superintendent is the St. Michaelis Church in Hildesheim.
The state superintendent is a member of the bishops' council of the regional church.
State superintendent
In the previously separate districts, the state superintendents were:
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District Hildesheim (official seat 1936–1942 in Goslar, then Hildesheim):
- Rudolf Detering (1936–1961)
- Gerhard Heintze (1961–1965)
- Hans Philipp Meyer (1965–1969)
- Ernst Henze (1969–1991)
- Walter Meyer-Roscher (1991–1999)
- Eckhard Gorka (2000-2007)
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Sprengel Göttingen (official seat 1936–1953 in Northeim, 1953–1958 in Hildesheim, then in Göttingen):
- Wilhelm Stupenhausen (1936–1948)
- Franz Wiebe (1948–1953)
- Lothar Stark (1958–1977)
- Horst Hirschler (1977–1988)
- Rolf Koppe (1988–1993)
- Hinrich Buß (1993-2002)
- Burghard Krause (2002-2007)
- In the Hildesheim-Göttingen district , newly formed in 2007 , the previous Hildesheim regional superintendent remained in office:
- Eckhard Gorka (2007 until today)
Sprengelbeirat
The state superintendent was assisted by the Sprengel Advisory Council until 2009, whose members came from all twelve church districts of the Sprengel.
Ephoric Convention
The leading clergy of the church districts, the superintendents, form the Ephorenkonvent des Sprengels with the state superintendent . One of these office holders is also the deputy of the state superintendent.
Blasting services
- House of Church Services (Sprengelbüro) with women's work , church service in the world of work , men's work, missionary services, work with young people , church service in tourism and the Bursfelde monastery
- Evangelical adult education in southern Lower Saxony
- Kindergarten counseling
- Amelungsborn Monastery
- Pastoral Psychological Service
- Trombone attendant
District members of the regional synod
The Hildesheim-Göttingen district sends 15 members to the highest parliamentary body of the Hanoverian regional church, the regional synod .
literature
- Paul Alpers: Small Church History of Lower Saxony . Lutherhaus Verlag, Hanover 1965
- The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover (editors: Peter Kollmar and Jens-Peter Kruse), Hanover, 1988
- Franz Wiebe: Church chronicle for the district of Göttingen-Grubenhagen 1948-1952 . Journey, Göttingen 1952
- Franz Wiebe: The church custom in the district of Göttingen-Grubenhagen . Journey, Göttingen 1952
