Online German Gazetteers and Parish Register Inventories: Difference between revisions

'''Parish register inventory:''' A listing of parishes within a given jurisdiction. It usually includes information about extant parish registers by type, time period covered, and accessibility.  

Below are gazetteers and parish register inventories for Germany  

=== GENERAL ===

=== REGIONAL ===

A number of gazetteers and parish register inventories are available in the [http://www.compgen.de digital library (DigiBib)] of the German Society for Computer Genealogy. The are found under the tab “Digibib”. New titles are added regularly.  

=== Alsace-Lorraine (Elsass-Lothringen) ====

• Ortschaft-Verzeichnis von Elsass-Lotharingen (1880), see http://books.google.com/books?id=4JJMAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false • List: Die Orte des Elsass, see http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~fraalsac/alsaceaz/geninfoger.htm • Deutsch-französisches Ortsnamenverzeichnis, see http://www.elsass-lothringen.de/ortenamen.htm • German-French place name list for Alsace, see http://michel.barbier.pagesperso-orange.fr/AlsaLor-DG.html Baden • Das Grossherzogtum Baden in geographischer, naturwissenschaftlicher, geschichtlicher, wirtschaftlicher und staatlicher Hinsicht dargestellt , see http://books.google.com/books/about/Das_Grossherzogtum_Baden_in_geographisch.html?id=GjEBAAAAQAAJ Explanation of symbols and abbreviations see p. 768, alphabetical place name list follows. • http://www.leo-bw.de/themen/ortslexikon does not list parish, but gives history  

==== Bavaria (Bayern) ====

• „Amtliche Ortsverzeichnisse” (official gazetteers) are available beginning with 1877 and can be downloaded here http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/landesbeschreibungen-orte#1888 • Ortsdatenbank (place name database); entries include links to articles and nice maps, see http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/ortsdatenbank • Bayernatlas regional atlas (modern, very nice!) see http://geoportal.bayern.de/bayernatlas/  

==== Berlin ====

• http://www.alt-berlin.info/ - street maps • http://www.luise-berlin.de/strassen/indexstr.htm directory of historic and current Berlin street names  

 

==== Brandenburg ====

• Quellen zur Bevölkerungsgeschichte in der Mark Brandenburg bis 1945 (2012) by Stefan Rückling, see https://www.yumpu.com/de/document/view/3315714/quellen-zur-bevolkerungsgeschichte-in-der-mark-brandenburg-bis-/3  

 

==== Bremen ====

• Geschichte und Landesbeschreibung der Herzogthümer Bremen und Verden (1824); the table of contents is at the end of volume 2. Volume 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=AZcwAAAAYAAJ , Volume 2 http://books.google.com/books?id=pW0AAAAAcAAJ  

 

==== Brunswick (Braunschweig) ====

• Place list of the former Duchy of Braunschweig in the Kingdom of Westphalia (1806-1813), (good because of the boundary changes that had happened under Napoleon) see http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ortsverzeichnis_des_ehemaligen_Herzogtums_Braunschweig_im_K%C3%B6nigreich_Westphalen  

 

==== East Prussia (Ostpreussen) ====

• Gemeindelexikon Ostpreussen 1905 see http://books.google.com/books/about/Gemeindelexikon_f%C3%BCr_das_K%C3%B6nigreich_Pre.html?id=EcEzAQAAMAAJ • http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Ostpreu%C3%9Fen/Genealogische_Quellen Inventory of extant genealogical sources, arranged by Kreis  

 

==== Hamburg ====

• Ausführliche Nachrichten über die sämmtlichen evangelisch-protestantischen Kirchen und Geistlichen der freyen und Hansestadt Hamburg (1826) – History of Hamburg parishes with lists of pastors. Click on „Inhalt“for a table of contents linked to images. See http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Ausf%C3%BChrliche_Nachrichten_%C3%BCber_die_s%C3%A4mmtlichen_evangelisch-protestantischen_Kirchen_und_Geistlichen_der_freyen_und_Hansestadt_Hamburg • Topographie des Herzogtums Holstein (1908), includes a chapter on Hamburg, read online or download https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_sWUTAQAAMAAJ  

 

• Historische Ortsdatenbank (Historical place name database) Ostfriesland see Topographie des Herzogtums Holstein (1908), includes a chapter on Hamburg, read online or download https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_sWUTAQAAMAAJ • Gemeindelexikon (1908), digitized together with Westfalen and Pyrmont. Hannover is images 1-274, see http://books.google.com/books/about/Gemeindelexikon_f%C3%BCr_die_Provinz_Hannove.html?id=AEfcPgAACAAJ  

 

==== Hessen ====

• Kirchenbücher und Standesregister für alle Wohnplätze im Land Hessen (1939), in the DigiBib, see http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Kirchenb%C3%BCcher_und_Standesregister_f%C3%BCr_alle_Wohnpl%C3%A4tze_im_Land_Hessen_(1939) • Database for today’s Hessen: Historisches Ortslexikon http://lagis.online.uni-marburg.de/de/subjects/index/sn/ol • http://www.lha-rlp.de/uploads/media/Kirchenbuchverzeichnis_uebergreifend.pdf -Rheinhessen and Kurpfalz gazetteer/parish register inventory  

 

==== Hessen-Nassau ====

• Database for today’s Hessen: Historisches Ortslexikon http://lagis.online.uni-marburg.de/de/subjects/index/sn/ol • http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Hessische_Kirchenb%C3%BCcher – list of parish registers already filmed at the Kassel church book archive Hohenzollern • Gemeindelexikon Hohenzollern’sche Lande 887 see http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Hohenzollernsche_Lande/Gemeindelexikon_1887 Lippe-Detmold • Bilingual (German/English) gazetteer includes parish, civil registration office, post office and more http://www.genealogy.net/reg/NRHE-WFA/lippe_orte-d.html Lübeck • Topographie des Herzogtums Holstein (1908), includes a chapter on the Fürstentum Lübeck, read online or download https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_sWUTAQAAMAAJ Mecklenburg-Schwerin • Gazetteer for Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz see https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Mecklenburg-Schwerin_%E2%80%93_Herzogtum_(duchy)Gazetteers Mecklenburg-Strelitz • Gazetteer for Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz see https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Mecklenburg-Schwerin_%E2%80%93_Herzogtum_(duchy)Gazetteers Oldenburg • Gazetteer (table) see https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Oldenburg_%E2%80%93_Herzogtum_(duchy)Gazetteers • http://www.genealogienetz.de/vereine/OGF/index.html - list of parishes for the 1814 area of Oldenburg, with beginning date for records and expert to contact for help, where available Palatinate (Pfalz) • Die Kirchenbücher der Bayrischen Pfalz ( 1925), parish register inventory, see http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Die_Kirchenb%C3%BCcher_der_bayerischen_Pfalz_(1925) • http://www.lha-rlp.de/uploads/media/Kirchenbuchverzeichnis_uebergreifend.pdf -Rheinhessen and Kurpfalz gazetteer and parish register inventory Pommern • Pommern Gemeindelexikon 1885 see http://pbc.gda.pl/dlibra/doccontent?id=7545&from=FBC • Pommern Gemeindelexikon 1905 see http://pbc.gda.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=7326 Posen • Posen Gemeindelexikon (1908) http://www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=2094 • http://donhoward.net/genpoland/posguide.htm - List of vital records for the Prussian Province of Posen Rheinland • Gemeindelexikon 1885 available at http://www.digitalis.uni-koeln.de/Gemeinde/gemeinde_index.html as a PDF that can be downloaded in sections, and in the DigiBib on www.compgen.de Saxon Duchies: • For some areas, see the Digital Historical Gazetteer of Saxony (Das Historische Ortsverzeichnis von Sachsen) [in German] http://hov.isgv.de/projekt/ The project is based on the “Staats-, Post- und Zeitungslexikon” published beginning in 1813 (13 main volumes plus 5 supplemental volumes). Use the Ämterverzeichnis to see the districts that are included in this work, http://hov.isgv.de/aemterverzeichnis/ All original volumes of the Staats-, Post- und Zeitungslexikon are available digitally and can be downloaded. See http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorlage:Staatslexikon_Sachsen for links. o Anhalt o Saxe-Altenburg (Sachsen-Altenburg) o Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha) o Saxe-Meiningen (Sachsen-Meiningen) o Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach) o Reuss-Gera (Junior Line) o Reuss-Greiz (Senior Line) o Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt o Sondershausen Saxony [Kingdom] (Königreich Sachsen) • Digital Historical Gazetteer of Saxony (Das Historische Ortsverzeichnis von Sachsen) [in German] . See http://hov.isgv.de/projekt/ .The project is based on the “Staats-, Post- und Zeitungslexikon” published beginning in 1813 (13 main volumes plus 5 supplemental volumes). Use the Ämterverzeichnis to see the districts that are included in this work, http://hov.isgv.de/aemterverzeichnis/ • All original volumes of the Staats-, Post- und Zeitungslexikon are available digitally and can be downloaded. See http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorlage:Staatslexikon_Sachsen for links. • Die Kirchenbücher im Königreich Sachsen (parish register inventory) see http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Die_Kirchenb%C3%BCcher_im_K%C3%B6nigreich_Sachsen_(1901) Saxony [Prussian province] (Provinz Sachsen) • Parish register database can be searched by localities and parishes, see http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/SAC/Kirchen/index.html • Handbuch der Provinz Sachsen ( 1854), see http://books.google.com/books?id=d9oAAAAAcAAJ • Handbuch der Provinz Sachsen (1839), see http://books.google.com/books?id=wQs8AAAAMAAJ Schaumburg-Lippe • Ortsverzeichnis Schaumburg-Lippe / Schauburg-Lippe gazetteer, see http://www.genealogy.net/reg/NSAC/SLP/gaz.html • see also http://www.blume-gen.de/index-orte.html . Parish listings include links to 19th Century emigrants, census records, pictures, maps, websites. Schleswig-Holstein • Gemeindelexikon 1897 see http://books.google.com/books?id=FYNAAQAAMAAJ&source=gbs_similarbooks • Topographie des Herzogtums Holstein (1908), read online or download https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_sWUTAQAAMAAJ Silesia (Schlesien) • Die Kirchenbücher Schlesiens beider Confessionen (1902),parish register inventory, see http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Die_Kirchenb%C3%BCcher_Schlesiens_beider_Confessionen_(1902) Waldeck-Pyrmont • Gemeindelexikon 1905, included with Westfalen, see the addendum beginning on page 131, https://books.google.de/books?id=9cEzAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA247&lpg=PA247&dq=Gemeindelexikon+Waldeck-Pyrmont&source=bl&ots=Dq1YeAIbz1&sig=ZQu3Sj6wuOlWxU7ywfOMG59VrCo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=RvP5VOPmKseRoQSnrIDIBw&ved=0CEsQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=Gemeindelexikon%20Waldeck-Pyrmont&f=false Westfalen • Gemeindelexikon 1905, digitized together with Hannover and Pyrmont; Westfalen begins with image 245, see https://books.google.de/books?id=9cEzAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA249&lpg=PA249&dq=westfalen+Gemeindelexikon&source=bl&ots=Dq1YeAI5wY&sig=PUO5fBSFAp-BsT9eQ5lGabnZ5Ns&hl=en&sa=X&ei=y_D5VKjMKJH0oASEqYK4Bw&ved=0CFQQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=westfalen%20Gemeindelexikon&f=false • Gemeindelexikon Westfalen 1887 see http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Gemeindelexikon_Westfalen_1887 Westpreussen • Nice gazetteer with records inventory and links to maps (in German). Can search partial place names (at least 4 letters required), see http://www.westpreussen.de/cms/ct/ortsverzeichnis.php Württemberg • http://www.archiv.elk-wue.de/cms/startseite/kirchenbuchdatenbank/ - database of Evangelical parishes, with links to other related databases • Hof- und Staatshandbuch für Württemberg – several editions can be viewed or downloaded on GoogleBooks. For the 1901 edition see http://books.google.com/books/about/Staatshandbuch_f%C3%BCr_W%C3%BCrttemberg.html?id=nMsnc6NvbnUC • Same, 1907 edition see https://archive.org/details/staatshandbuchf01landgoog • Staatshandbuch 1936 see http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/W%C3%BCrttemberg/Staatshandbuch_1936/ • http://www.leo-bw.de/themen/ortslexikon does not list parish, but gives history