Superintendent of Plauen
The Plauen church district was a part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony that was subordinate to the Dresden Regional Church Office . He was also called Ephorie or Superintendentur Plauen. In 2000, the Oelsnitz church district was incorporated into it. In 2020 it rose in the Vogtland church district.
area
The Plauen church district comprised the westernmost part of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Saxony. and was adjacent to the Auerbach church district before unification. The border was formed by the communities Neumark, Reichenbar, Limbach, Jocketa-Pöhl, Altensalz, Theuma, Tirpersdorf, Arnoldsgrün, Schöneck and Markneukirchen. In addition to these, the communities Mylau, Netzschkau, Elsterberg, Ruppertsgrün, Steinsdorf, Jößnitz, Plauen Markus-Paulus, Plauen St. Michaelis, Plauen St. Johannis, Plauen-Oberlosa belonged. Straßberg, Kürbitz, Taltitz, Ebertsgrün, Pausa, Thierbach-Ranspach-Langenbuch, Mühltroff-Langenbach, Rosenbach, Reuth, Misslareuth, Burgstein, Bobenneukirchen, Oelsnitz, Unterwürschnitz, Adorf, Marieney-Wohlbach, Bad Elster and Bad Brambach-Schönberg to the church district. A total of 18 parishes were organized from these parishes.
history
In 1538 the second Protestant pastor in Plauen, Georg Raute, was appointed superintendent, with which the Ephorie Plauen was founded. Three hundred years later, in 1837, the Ephorie Auerbach and Reichenbach was separated from Plauen. As a result of a structural reform in 2000, the church district Oelsnitz / V. affiliated before the structural reform of 2020, the Plauen church district merged into the new church district Vogtland, which borders the church districts of Aue and Zwickau.
The Superintendentur Plauen played a special role in 1989 during the Peaceful Revolution . Superintendent Thomas Küttler and Mayor Norbert Martin ( SED ) brokered a conversation between the protesting groups and politics. For this purpose, Plauen citizens signed up in lists that were displayed in the superintendent's office. A negotiating group chaired by Küttler was set up from these lists and called for reforms.
management
At the head of a church district is the superintendent , the spiritual director and leader of the church. The seat of the Plauen superintendent was Plauen . At the same time, the Plauen superintendents held the first parish of the Johanniskirche Plauen .
- 1538 Georg the Elder Ä. Rhombus
- 1547 Corbinianus Hendel
- 1564 Christoph Friedrich
- 1567 Bartholomäus Reibolt
- 1585 Martin Pündel
- 1591–1592 David Schott
- 1593 Nicolaus Polant
- 1603 Hoe von Hoenegg, Matthias
- 1612 Hieronymus Kromayer
- 1614 Caspar Pamler
- 1624 Gabriel Lother
- 1643 Egidius Wildt
- 1674 Johannes d. Ä. Heiffel
- 1697 Johann Avenarius
- 1714 Johann Georg Hermann
- 1738 Johann Gottfried Hermann
- 1746 Johann Christian Stemler
- 1748 Georg Friedrich Strantz
- 1785 Johann Christian Hand
- 1798 Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Tischer
- 1824 Christian Anton August Fiedler
- 1844–1875 Ewald Beyer
- 1875 Heinrich Gustav Landmann
- 1888 Paul Feodor Krieger
- 1892 Paul Robert Lieschke
- 1915 Franz Otto Glänzel
- 1924 Heinrich Theodor Friedrich Naumann
- 1930 Richard Guido Wilhelm Franke
- 1935 Karl Reinhold Semm
- 1937 Gustav Manfred Köhler
- 1941–1945 Heinrich Georg Albert Spielmann
- 1950 Johann Georg Albert Thomas
- 1957–1972 Karl Wohlgemuth
- 1963 Winfried Pape
- 1979 Thomas Küttler
Web links
- Plauen superintendent in the parish book of Saxony
- Archives of the Superintendentur Plauen in the Saxon State Archives in Chemnitz