Kirchenkreis Harburg

The former city of Harburg became a district of Hamburg in 1937. However, the Evangelical Lutheran Church District of Harburg (Kirchenkreis Harburg) - a so-called administrative and supervisory district within the church - remained part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover. This church district - Kirchenkreis Harburg - included a total of 18 churches, which were located in the federal states of Hamburg and Lower Saxony. From 1977 the Evangelical Lutheran Church District of Harburg belonged to the North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church (NEK), sometimes just called “Northern Elbia”. In 2009, the three church districts of Alt-Hamburg, Stormarn and Harburg merged to form the Evangelical Lutheran Church District of Hamburg-Ost, which has been a member of the newly merged Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany (Nordkirche) since 2012.