Destroyed churches
During the church struggle , the Confessing Church designated as destroyed churches evangelical regional churches in which the German Christians received a majority in church elections or in which permanent changes in church leadership were made due to decrees of the Reich or Prussian Ministry of Culture.
In these churches, Dahlem's ecclesiastical emergency law applied because their church leaderships were not considered legitimate by the Confessing Church - therefore, it was incumbent on the parallel bodies of the Confessing Church (Free Synods or State Brotherhood Councils) to send synodals to the Confessional Synod and delegates to the Reich Brotherhood Council . Most of the regional churches were seen as destroyed churches; there were only a few intact churches .
literature
- Thomas Martin Schneider: The minutes of the Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Germany, 1945-1948 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-525-55766-2 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Hans-Walter Krumwiede: Church history of Lower Saxony: From the German Confederation in 1815 to the establishment of the Evangelical Church in Germany in 1948 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1995, ISBN 3-525-55432-X , p. 618 , section “Intact” and “Destroyed” regional churches .
- ^ Wilhelm Niemöller : The Fourth Confession Synod of the German Evangelical Church in Bad Oeynhausen , p. 57 online