City Church Association Hanover

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The City Church Association of Hanover is located at Hanns-Lilje-Platz 3, next to the bookstore at the Marktkirche.

The Evangelical-Lutheran City Church Association of Hanover is an amalgamation of the parishes of the cities of Hanover , Garbsen and Seelze . He belongs to the Ev.-luth. Regional church of Hanover and is located in the district of Hanover . Around 180,000 parishioners live in it. The incumbent city ​​superintendent has been Thomas Höflich since October 1, 2019. Rainer Müller-Brandes, who was elected in June 2020, will take up his post in autumn 2020.

history

The City Church Association of Hanover was formed on August 26, 1902 by order of the royal consistory and on the basis of the church law of June 7, 1900 as a union of 13 Evangelical Lutheran parishes.

The order came into effect on October 15, 1902. The main task was to finance new churches , rectories and confirmation halls. In 1922 the state consistory founded a new general association with a greatly expanded range of members and responsibilities, which was also the legal successor to the old association. In addition to the general association, the Hanover City Church Association was established in 1928 as an amalgamation of the church districts . In 1959 the General Association and the City Church Association were merged into the Evangelical Lutheran City Church Association of Hanover through the Hanover Act .

On January 1, 2001, the structures of the city church association were reformed again. The up to then eight church districts and their governing bodies were transferred to four official areas (center, west, east and Garbsen-Seelze). Since January 2013 the city church association has been divided into three areas of responsibility (north-west, center and south-east), each area is headed by a superintendent. The sole parliamentary representation of the currently (2013) around 202,000 members is the Stadtkirchentag (corresponds to a parish council), which is made up of 55 elected representatives and 10 members appointed by the incumbent city church council. The Stadtkirchentag is presided over by a five-person presidium headed by President Wencke Breyer. The top representative of the city church association is the city superintendent.

The city church association in Hanover , Garbsen and Seelze counted a total of 72 parishes at its 100th anniversary . As a result of declining membership numbers and falling community budgets, several cooperating church communities have since decided to merge or have already completed the merger. In 2020, the association will have 60 parishes.

Supra-congregational functional facilities stand for a wide range of support and advice offers. The Eichenkreuzburg , a youth castle near Bissendorf , has been owned by the City Church Association since 1966 . He uses it as a conference and seminar house for youth work. Originally the building erected in 1928 belonged to the Vahrenwalder parish , which could no longer maintain it due to the high need for renovation.

Administration / town church chancellery

The central administrative office of the city church association is the city church chancellery in Hildesheimer Straße 165/167 in Hanover, which is divided into the head of the office , Andreas Bergen since December 2015, his deputy and five departments . The law firm has around 90 employees.

Diakonisches Werk Hannover gGmbH

The Diakonische Werk Hannover gGmbH is the Diakonisches Werk of the City Church Association of Hanover. It is a member of the Diaconal Work of Protestant Churches in Lower Saxony . In 1865 Gerhard Uhlhorn founded an evangelical association in Hanover which, among other things , felt responsible for the establishment of institutions and houses of the Inner Mission (IM) and promoted diaconal activities in the communities. In 1877 the association merged with the State Association for Inner Mission Hanover . In 1920 the City Mission of Hanover was founded. On December 16, 1954, the City Church Committee approved the City Association for Inner Mission as an institution of the parishes. The previous city mission, the city welfare service and the Ev. Integrated aid organization. In 1963 pastors and lay people founded a sponsoring association. On February 6, 1976, the city ​​mission Hannover eV was renamed into Das Diakonische Werk - City Association for Inner Mission - in Hannover eV . From 2007 the association was called Diakonisches Werk, Stadtverband Hannover eV . In the second half of 2015, the association was transferred to Diakonisches Werk Hannover gGmbH . On January 1, 2016, the transfer of operations of the departments and employees of the city church association Diakonische Werks followed. Tasks and structures were not affected. The sole shareholder of this gGmbH is Ev.-luth. City Church Association Hanover.

The work is divided into ten specialist departments that take care of the various fields of work, such as church district social work, open work for the elderly, addiction and addiction prevention, help for the homeless, nursing homes and the like. 340 full-time and more than 800 volunteers work in it. The plant is led by a pastor, who is the Diakonie pastor of Hanover and managing director of the Diakonisches Werk Hanover and forms the executive board with the commercial director. A supervisory board accompanies and supervises the work. The Diakonisches Werk is one of the shareholders of the street magazine Asphalt and is u. a. involved in the social department store fair Kauf, in the family education center Hannover eV and in Resohelp help for those released from prison.

City superintendents (excerpt)

The city superintendent is the holder of the first parish office of the Marktkirche Hannover .

City Superintendent Hans-Martin Heinemann speaks on stage at the 2012 solidarity table, here together with regional dean Martin Tenge , including provost at the St. Clemens basilica

Fonts (excerpt)

  • Wolfgang Puschmann , Wolfgang Reinbold, Insa Becker-Wook: Long Night of the Churches , ed. from Ev.-luth. City Church Association Hannover, Hannover: Hora-Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-936692-09-9
  • Wolfgang Puschmann, Herbert Schmalstieg (eds.), Wolfgang Reinbold, Rolf Grave: City and Church in Demographic Change [a symposium by Ev.-Luth. City church association and the state capital Hanover], Hanover: Ev.-luth. City Church Association, 2006, ISBN 3-00-018136-9
  • Jürgen Doppelstein, Ev.-Luth. City Church Association Hanover, Ernst Barlach Society Hamburg (ed.): Lost Paradise lost. Art and sacred space [on the occasion of the Ev.-Luth. City Church Association Hanover and the Ev.-Luth. Marktkirchengemeinde Hannover in cooperation with the Ernst-Barlach-Gesellschaft Hamburg in the period from July 14th to November 12th 2000 organized exhibition of the same name], Hannover: Ev.-Luth. City Church Association; Hamburg: Ernst Barlach Society, 2000, ISBN 3-930100-13-4
  • Insa Becker-Wook, Joachim Stever: The 9th Long Night of the Churches in Hanover. Program on September 21, 2012 through the night , brochure of the Ev.-luth. City Church Association Hanover, City Church Department, Lutherisches Verlagshaus GmbH, Hanover 2018

literature

archive

See also

Web links

Commons : Evangelical Lutheran City Church Association Hanover  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ . City superintendent. Retrieved December 21, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Press release of the City Church Association , accessed on August 18, 2020.
  3. ↑ Ev.-luth. City Church Association Hanover: Insights - 1902-2002
  4. ↑ http://www.kirche-hannover.de
  5. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated November 24, 2011 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www2.kirche-hannover.de
  6. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated August 29, 2016 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www2.kirche-hannover.de
  7. ↑ http://www.diakonisches-werk-hannover.de/ueber_uns/rueckblick_diakonie_in_hannover.html
  8. ↑ https://www.diakonisches-werk-hannover.de/ueber-uns/wer-wir-sind/struktur/
  9. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 15, 2014 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.diakonisches-werk-hannover.de
  10. ↑ LkAH H 8 - Arcinsys detail page. Retrieved December 21, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Thorsten Fuchs: Stadtsuperintendent / Heinemann is the new head of the Hannover church in the online edition of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung on March 10, 2010, last accessed on October 18, 2013.