Online German Gazetteers and Parish Register Inventories: Difference between revisions

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Gazetteer definition: a list of all localities within a given jurisdictions, such as a county, duchy, state, province, or empire. Information provided may vary depending on the original purpose of the publication and may include different government jurisdictions, church parish(es), population-, area,-and tax information, post office, description, history, and more.

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[edit | edit source]

German Empire[edit | edit source]

Meyers Gazetteer (currently not online)
The Genealogisches Ortsverzeichnis (GOV)
Areas east of the Oder-Neisse rivers
For phonetic searches in the area covered by today’s Germany, use the “fuzzy gazetteer”
JewishGen gazetteer has several search options, including “contains”. Be sure to change the country and choose a search option.
Deutsch-Fremdsprachiges Ortsnamenverzeichnis place name changes for formerly German localities as of June 1919,
Orbis Latinus (1909 - English interface) – Latinized place names. Several volumes/editions are available on multiple websites: 1972 four-volume combined set version

Prussia (Preußen)[edit | edit source]

Gemeindelexikon Preußen - A complete set of the volumes. Browse images by volume.
Various volumes of Gemeindelexikon Preußen are also available on GoogleBooks and the DigiBib (Genealogy.net)

Regional[edit | edit source]

A number of gazetteers and parish register inventories are available in the 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)[edit | edit source]

Baden[edit | edit source]

Das Grossherzogtum Baden in geographischer, naturwissenschaftlicher, geschichtlicher, wirtschaftlicher und staatlicher Hinsicht dargestellt - Explanation of symbols and abbreviations see p. 768; alphabetical place name list follows.
History of parishes

Bavaria (Bayern)[edit | edit source]

Amtliche Ortsverzeichnisse” (official gazetteers) Download version available. Begins with 1877.
Ortsdatenbank (place name database) - entries include links to articles and nice maps
Bayernatlas regional atlas - modern

Berlin[edit | edit source]

Hamburg[edit | edit source]

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.
Topographie des Herzogtums Holstein (1908) - includes a chapter on Hamburg; read online or download

Hannover[edit | edit source]

Historische Ortsdatenbank - historical place name database;
For Ostfriesland, Topographie des Herzogtums Holstein (1908); includes a chapter on Hamburg; read online or download
Gemeindelexikon (1908) - digitized together with Westfalen and Pyrmont. Hannover is on images 1-274

Hessen[edit | edit source]

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Kirchenb%C3%BCcher_und_Standesregister_f%C3%BCr_alle_Wohnpl%C3%A4tze_im_Land_Hessen_(1939) Kirchenbücher und Standesregister für alle Wohnplätze im Land Hessen (1939)] - in the DigiBib *Historisches Ortslexikon - Database for today’s Hessen
Rheinhessen and Kurpfalz gazetteer/parish register inventory

Hessen-Nassau[edit | edit source]

Historisches Ortslexikon - Database for today’s Hessen
Kassel Church Book Archive – list of parish registers already filmed

Hohenzollern[edit | edit source]

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Hohenzollernsche_Lande/Gemeindelexikon_1887 Gemeindelexikon Hohenzollern’sche Lande 887]

Lippe-Detmold[edit | edit source]

Bilingual (German/English) gazetteer - includes parish, civil registration office, post office and more

Lübeck[edit | edit source]

Topographie des Herzogtums Holstein (1908) - includes a chapter on the Fürstentum Lübeck; read online or download

Mecklenburg-Schwerin[edit | edit source]

Gazetteer for Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz

Mecklenburg-Strelitz[edit | edit source]

Gazetteer for Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz

Oldenburg[edit | edit source]

Oldenburg Gazetteer - table
Oldenburg Parishes - list of parishes for the 1814 area of Oldenburg, with beginning date for records and expert to contact for help

Palatinate (Pfalz)[edit | edit source]

Die Kirchenbücher der Bayrischen Pfalz (1925) - parish register inventory
Rheinhessen and Kurpfalz gazetteer and parish register inventory

Pommern[edit | edit source]

Posen[edit | edit source]

Rheinland[edit | edit source]

Gemeindelexikon 1885 - PDF that can be downloaded in sections
Gemeindelexikon 1885 - DigiBib version

Saxon Duchies[edit | edit source]

Das Historische Ortsverzeichnis von Sachsen (Digital Historical Gazetteer of Saxony) - Covers some areas; in German; project is based on the “Staats-, Post- und Zeitungslexikon” published beginning in 1813 (13 main volumes plus 5 supplemental volumes).
To determine districts included: Ämterverzeichnis
Staats-, Post- und Zeitungslexikon - all original volumes; read online or download.

Anhalt
Saxe-Altenburg (Sachsen-Altenburg)
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha)
Saxe-Meiningen (Sachsen-Meiningen)
Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach)
Reuss-Gera (Junior Line)
Reuss-Greiz (Senior Line)
Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt o Sondershausen

Saxony [Kingdom] (Königreich Sachsen)[edit | edit source]

Das Historische Ortsverzeichnis von Sachsen (Digital Historical Gazetteer of Saxony) - in German, project is based on the “Staats-, Post- und Zeitungslexikon” published beginning in 1813 (13 main volumes plus 5 supplemental volumes).
To determine districts included: Ämterverzeichnis
Staats-, Post- und Zeitungslexikon - all original volumes; read online or download.
Die Kirchenbücher im Königreich Sachsen - parish register inventory

Saxony [Prussian province] (Provinz Sachsen)[edit | edit source]

Parish register database - can be searched by localities and parishes
Handbuch der Provinz Sachsen ( 1854)
Handbuch der Provinz Sachsen (1839)

Schaumburg-Lippe[edit | edit source]

Ortsverzeichnis Schaumburg-Lippe - Schauburg-Lippe gazetteer; parish listings include links to 19th Century emigrants, census records, pictures, maps, websites.
Ortsverzeichnis Schaumburg-Lippe - Schauburg-Lippe gazetteer; parish listings include links to 19th Century emigrants, census records, pictures, maps, websites.

Schleswig-Holstein[edit | edit source]

Gemeindelexikon (1897)
Topographie des Herzogtums Holstein (1908) - read online or download

Silesia (Schlesien)[edit | edit source]

Die Kirchenbücher Schlesiens beider Confessionen (1902) - parish register inventory,

Waldeck-Pyrmont[edit | edit source]

Gemeindelexikon (1905) - included with Westfalen, see the addendum beginning on page 131

Westfalen[edit | edit source]

Gemeindelexikon (1905) - digitized together with Hannover and Pyrmont; Westfalen begins with image 245

Westpreussen[edit | edit source]

Westpresussen Gazetteer and record inventory - in German; links to maps; can search partial place names (at least 4 letters required)

Württemberg[edit | edit source]

Evangelical parish database - includes links to other related databases
Hof- und Staatshandbuch für Württemberg (1901) – several editions can be viewed or downloaded
Hof- und Staatshandbuch für Württemberg (1907)
Staatshandbuch (1936)
History of parish

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 Below are gazetteers and parish register inventories for Germany
-=== GENERAL  ===
+=== General  ===
 ==== German Empire  ====
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 *Various volumes of Gemeindelexikon Preußen are also available on [http://books.google.com/ GoogleBooks] and the [http://www.compgen.de DigiBib] (Genealogy.net)
-=== REGIONAL  ===
+=== 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.
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 ==== Bremen  ====
 *[http://books.google.com/books?id=AZcwAAAAYAAJ Geschichte und Landesbeschreibung der Herzogthümer Bremen und Verden (1824), Volume 1]
 *[http://books.google.com/books?id=pW0AAAAAcAAJ Geschichte und Landesbeschreibung der Herzogthümer Bremen und Verden (1824), Volume 2] - the table of contents at the end of volume 2.
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 ==== Hannover  ====
-*[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_sWUTAQAAMAAJ Historische Ortsdatenbank] - historical place name database; For Ostfriesland, see 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;
+*For Ostfriesland, [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_sWUTAQAAMAAJ Topographie des Herzogtums Holstein (1908)]; includes a chapter on Hamburg; read online or download
 *[http://books.google.com/books/about/Gemeindelexikon_f%C3%BCr_die_Provinz_Hannove.html?id=AEfcPgAACAAJ Gemeindelexikon (1908)] - digitized together with Westfalen and Pyrmont. Hannover is on images 1-274
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 ==== Palatinate (Pfalz)  ====
 *[http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Die_Kirchenb%C3%BCcher_der_bayerischen_Pfalz_(1925) Die Kirchenbücher der Bayrischen Pfalz (1925)] - parish register inventory
 *[http://www.lha-rlp.de/uploads/media/Kirchenbuchverzeichnis_uebergreifend.pdf Rheinhessen and Kurpfalz gazetteer and parish register inventory]
 ==== Pommern  ====
-*[http://pbc.gda.pl/dlibra/doccontent?id=7545&amp;from=FBC Pommern Gemeindelexikon 1885]
+*[http://pbc.gda.pl/dlibra/doccontent?id=7545&from=FBC Pommern Gemeindelexikon 1885]
 *[http://pbc.gda.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=7326 Pommern Gemeindelexikon 1905]
 ==== Posen  ====
 *[http://www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=2094 Posen Gemeindelexikon (1908)]
 *[http://donhoward.net/genpoland/posguide.htm Posen Vital records]
 ==== Rheinland  ====
 *[http://www.digitalis.uni-koeln.de/Gemeinde/gemeinde_index.html Gemeindelexikon 1885] - PDF that can be downloaded in sections
 *[http://www.compgen.de Gemeindelexikon 1885] - DigiBib version
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 *[http://hov.isgv.de/projekt/ Das Historische Ortsverzeichnis von Sachsen (Digital Historical Gazetteer of Saxony)] - Covers some areas; in German; project is based on the “Staats-, Post- und Zeitungslexikon” published beginning in 1813 (13 main volumes plus 5 supplemental volumes).
 *To determine districts included: [http://hov.isgv.de/aemterverzeichnis/ Ämterverzeichnis]
 *[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorlage:Staatslexikon_Sachsen Staats-, Post- und Zeitungslexikon] - all original volumes; read online or download.
 :*Anhalt
 :*Saxe-Altenburg (Sachsen-Altenburg)
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 :*Reuss-Gera (Junior Line)
 :*Reuss-Greiz (Senior Line)
 :*Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt o Sondershausen
 ==== Saxony [Kingdom] (Königreich Sachsen)  ====
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 *[http://hov.isgv.de/projekt/ Das Historische Ortsverzeichnis von Sachsen (Digital Historical Gazetteer of Saxony)] - in German, project is based on the “Staats-, Post- und Zeitungslexikon” published beginning in 1813 (13 main volumes plus 5 supplemental volumes).
 *To determine districts included: [http://hov.isgv.de/aemterverzeichnis/ Ämterverzeichnis]
 *[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorlage:Staatslexikon_Sachsen Staats-, Post- und Zeitungslexikon] - all original volumes; read online or download.
 *[http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Die_Kirchenb%C3%BCcher_im_K%C3%B6nigreich_Sachsen_(1901) Die Kirchenbücher im Königreich Sachsen] - parish register inventory
 ==== Saxony [Prussian province] (Provinz Sachsen)  ====
 *[http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/SAC/Kirchen/index.html Parish register database] - can be searched by localities and parishes
 *[http://books.google.com/books?id=d9oAAAAAcAAJ Handbuch der Provinz Sachsen ( 1854)]
 *[http://books.google.com/books?id=wQs8AAAAMAAJ Handbuch der Provinz Sachsen (1839)]
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 ==== Schaumburg-Lippe  ====
 *[http://www.genealogy.net/reg/NSAC/SLP/gaz.html Ortsverzeichnis Schaumburg-Lippe] - Schauburg-Lippe gazetteer; parish listings include links to 19th Century emigrants, census records, pictures, maps, websites.
 *[http://www.blume-gen.de/index-orte.html Ortsverzeichnis Schaumburg-Lippe] - Schauburg-Lippe gazetteer; parish listings include links to 19th Century emigrants, census records, pictures, maps, websites.
 ==== Schleswig-Holstein  ====
-*[http://books.google.com/books?id=FYNAAQAAMAAJ&amp;source=gbs_similarbooks Gemeindelexikon (1897)]
+*[http://books.google.com/books?id=FYNAAQAAMAAJ&source=gbs_similarbooks Gemeindelexikon (1897)]
 *[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_sWUTAQAAMAAJ Topographie des Herzogtums Holstein (1908)] - read online or download
 ==== Silesia (Schlesien)  ====
 *[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_sWUTAQAAMAAJ Die Kirchenbücher Schlesiens beider Confessionen (1902)] - parish register inventory,
 ==== Waldeck-Pyrmont  ====
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 ==== Westfalen  ====
 *[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 (1905]) - digitized together with Hannover and Pyrmont; Westfalen begins with image 245
 ==== Westpreussen  ====
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 *[http://www.archiv.elk-wue.de/cms/startseite/kirchenbuchdatenbank/ Evangelical parish database] - includes links to other related databases
 *[http://books.google.com/books/about/Staatshandbuch_f%C3%BCr_W%C3%BCrttemberg.html?id=nMsnc6NvbnUC Hof- und Staatshandbuch für Württemberg (1901)] – several editions can be viewed or downloaded
 *[https://archive.org/details/staatshandbuchf01landgoog Hof- und Staatshandbuch für Württemberg (1907)]
 *[http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/W%C3%BCrttemberg/Staatshandbuch_1936/ Staatshandbuch (1936)]
 *[http://www.leo-bw.de/themen/ortslexikon History of parish]