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Lutheran Archives[edit | edit source]

Landeskirchliche Archiv Kiel
Winterbeker Weg 51
24114 Kiel
Germany

Phone: + 49-431 64 98 60
E-mail: kiel@archiv.nordkirche.de

Landeskirchliches Archiv Schwerin / Church District Archives Mecklenburg
Postal Address: 110407
19004 Schwerin
Germany

Reading room and office building:
Am Dom 2
19055 Schwerin
Germany

Tel .: 0385 20223-292
Fax: 0385 20223-299
Mail: schwerin@archiv.nordkirche.de

Catholic Archives[edit | edit source]

Diocesan Archives Archbishopric Hamburg (Visiting Address)
Schmilinskystraße 80
20099 Hamburg
Germany

Diocesan Archives Archbishopric Hamburg (Mail Address)
Am Mariendom 4
20099 Hamburg
Germany

Phone: 040 24877 294
Fax: 040 24877 288
E-mail: colberg@egv-erzbistum-hh.de

State Archives[edit | edit source]

Ariadne, Archive Portal for Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

This website will give you all possible record locations for a given place name. For instance: For the town Zarrentin, one can find documents in the city archives of Stralsund, Wismar, and Schwerin in the state archives of Greifswald and Schwerin, in the communal archive of Nordvorpommern and in the Church archive in Schwerin. Clicking on the boxes at the left will then give further information about the time frame of the documents. Once you find an archive with records you need, click on the link "Archives in MV" to find the contact information. Feel free to contact the archives by e-mail, and you can use English.