sentences:  On 1 April 1921 the "Evangelical Lutheran State Church of Saxe-Coburg" merged in the Bavarian church body.The number of parishioners amounted to 1,575,000 in 1925.During the struggle of the churches under the Nazi dictatorship the Bavarian Lutheran church body remained an intact church (), since the Nazi-submissive German Christians fraction remained a minority in the synod after the unconstitutional election imposed by Hitler on 23 July 1933.