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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

German Empire

  • Meyers Gazetteer (currently not online)
  • [www.compgen.de The Genealogisches Ortsverzeichnis (GOV)]
  • [1] Areas east of the Oder-Neisse rivers

• For phonetic searches in the area covered by today’s Germany, use the “fuzzy gazetteer” at http://isodp.hof-university.de/fuzzyg/query/ • The JewishGen gazetteer has several search options, including “contains”. See http://www.jewishgen.org/communities/LocTown.asp 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, see http://pbc.gda.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=7346&from=pubstats • Orbis Latinus –Latinized place names. Several volumes/editions are available on multiple websites. See http://www.columbia.edu/acis/ets/Graesse/contents.html (1909 - English interface) and http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/orbis-latinus (1972- four-volume combined set) Prussia (Preußen) • A complete set of the “Gemeindelexikon Preußen” volumes is available on www.ancestry.com. Search the catalog for “Gemeindelexikon”. Browse images by volume. • Various volumes are also available on GoogleBooks and the DigiBib on www.compgen.de (Genealogy.net)



REGIONAL A number of gazetteers and parish register inventories are available in the digital library (DigiBib) of the German Society for Computer Genealogy. They can be accessed at www.compgen.de , 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 Hannover • 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

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