Lueneburg district
The district of Lüneburg 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 , Osnabrück , Lüneburg, East Friesland-Ems and Stade .
Geographical location
The district of Lüneburg is in the northeast of Lower Saxony and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover and includes the Lüneburg Heath with its peripheral areas. It borders:
- in the north and northeast to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany ,
- in the east to the Evangelical Church in Central Germany ,
- in the south to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Braunschweig and the Hildesheim-Göttingen district ,
- in the west to the districts of Hanover, Osnabrück and Stade.
structure
With 640,000 parish members, the district of Lüneburg is the largest of the Hanover regional church. The region stretches between Hittfeld in the north and Wolfsburg in the south, between Walsrode in the west and Lüchow in the east. 1989 was Amt Neuhaus in the church circle Bleckede the Ward integrated, it was still before in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mecklenburg in the territory of the GDR .
On July 1, 2007, due to a regional church structural reform, the Gifhorn and Wolfsburg church districts were incorporated into the former Hildesheim district.
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The center of the Sprengels is the old salt town Lüneburg with the centuries-old churches of St. Johannis, St. Michaelis and St. Nicolai.
The Sprengel includes the eleven church districts Bleckede, Celle, Gifhorn, Hittfeld, Lüchow-Dannenberg , Lüneburg, Soltau , Uelzen, Walsrode , Winsen (Luhe) and Wolfsburg-Wittingen. These are divided into 236 parishes in which 406 pastors and 129 deacons are active.
History and present
East Lower Saxony piety is strongly influenced by revival . Ludwig Harms (1808–1865), as a pastor in Hermannsburg , knew how to tie in with the traditional ways of life of the "Heidjer" with his sermons and to inspire them for the Lutheran Christian faith . Even today, the Hermannsburg Mission established by Harms (today: Evangelical-Lutheran Missionswerk) with its training centers imparts spiritual strength for "inner" and "outer" missionary work.
Lutheran faith has existed in the Lüneburg district since the introduction of the Reformation by Duke Ernst the Confessor . The Lüneburg Church Ordinance of 1643 is still largely valid today.
Between 1949 and 1990, the border situation with the GDR shaped the work in the Lüneburg district. The economic weakening is still noticeable today. Due to the fact that people began to migrate earlier, the Lüchow-Dannenberg, Uelzen and Lüneburg regions are the most sparsely populated areas of the Hanover regional church.
Recent German history and the responsibility for it on the part of the Evangelical Lutheran Christians is also clear in the Sprengel: in the Third Reich there was a concentration camp in Bergen-Belsen in which thousands of people perished in the last years of the war, including Anne Frank .
Not far away is the Bergen military training area , from whose area numerous residents were resettled in the early 1930s. In Munster there the only military parish within the Hanover regional church.
The questions of the use of nuclear energy and the final storage of waste materials in the area around Gorleben repeatedly lead to discussions and demonstrations in which many concerned church members take part with their parishes.
State superintendent
Management of the Sprengels
The clerical direction of the Lüneburg district is incumbent on the incumbent of the Lüneburg state superintendent. Its seat was Medingen from 1936 to 1954. In 1954, the regional church bought the Schifferwall 5 property in Lüneburg from the Jewish Trust Corporation for Germany, on which a new office was built for the regional superintendent. Episcopal tasks such as ordination of clergy, visitations of parishes and inaugurations of sacred buildings are carried out from Lüneburg and activities that are delegated by the bishop's office in Hanover for reasons of distance alone.
The preaching church of the Lüneburg state superintendent is the St. John's Church .
The state superintendent is a member of the bishop's council of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Hanover.
State superintendent
- 1936–1954: Johann Feltrup
- 1954–1964: Wilhelm Dornblüth
- 1964–1979: Dieter Andersen
- 1979–1988: Tielko Tilemann
- 1988–1997: Hans-Christian Drömann
- 1997–2011: Hans-Hermann Jantzen
- Since 2011: Dieter Rathing
Sprengelbeirat
The state superintendent was supported by the Sprengelbeirat, whose members came from all church districts of the Sprengel, until it was abolished on January 1, 2010.
Ephoric Convention
The leading clergy of the twelve church districts, the superintendents , form the Ephorenkonvent des Sprengels. One of the office holders is the deputy of the state superintendent.
Explosion services, facilities
- House of Church Services (Sprengelbüro) - u. a. with women's work , church service in the world of work , church service in tourism (Heide working group), Missionary Center Hanstedt
- Evangelical Adult Education Lüneburg (EEB Lüneburg)
- Expert advice for Protestant day-care centers
- Ebstorf Monastery
- Isenhagen Abbey
- Medingen Monastery
- Walsrode Monastery
- Wienhausen Monastery
- Pastoral Psychological Service
Members of the regional synod
The members are also sent from the district to the highest parliamentary body of the regional church, the regional synod .
literature
- Paul Alpers: Small Church History of Lower Saxony , Hanover, 1965
- Peter Kollmar / Jens-Peter Kruse (Red.): The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover , Hanover, 1988
- Christoph Wiesenfeldt: “Mobilization in the Church?” The ev.-luth. Parish of Lüneburg 1918–1945. Self-published Lüneburg, o.A. (2009). ISBN 978-3-923603-03-9 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ The church districts Wolfsburg and Wittingen merged at the beginning of 2013.
- ^ " Boundary advisory councils are abolished" - 8th session of the 24th regional synod abolishes Boundary advisory councils.
- ↑ Conference facilities - Missionary Center Hanstedt ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2012 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.
- ↑ Specialist advice for daycare centers in the Lüneburg district ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Pastoral psychological service in the district of Lüneburg ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
