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State Archives[edit | edit source]

Thüringisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Weimar
Postal address: PF 27 26
99408 Weimar
Germany

E-Mail: weimar@staatsarchive.thueringen.de
Website

Older holdings (before 1920):
Thüringisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Weimar
Beethovenplatz 3, Weimar
Germany

Telephone: (0 36 43) 87 198-315
Fax: ( 0 36 43) 87 198-350

Newer inventories (after 1920):
Thüringisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Weimar
Marstallstraße 2, Weimar
Germany

Telephone: (0 36 43) 870-0
Fax: (0 36 43) 870-100

Greiz[edit | edit source]

(Responsible for district of Greiz)

Thuringisches Staatsarchiv Greiz
Oberes Schloss 7
07973 Greiz
Germany

Tel: 03661-2537

Lutheran Archives[edit | edit source]

Evangelisch-lutherische Kirche in Thüringen
Landeskirchenarchiv Eisenach
Schloßberg 4a (Kreuzkirche)
99817 Eisenach
Germany
Tel: 03691-881465
FAX: 03691-7339120
Email: archiv@elkth.de
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Covers the territories of the former territorial states of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach, Saxony-Gotha, Saxony-Altenburg, Saxony-Meiningen, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Schwarzburg-Sondershausen and Reuss. This also gives information about the locations and addresses of the approximately 750 parish and 18 superintendent archives.

Catholic Archives[edit | edit source]

Diocesan Archives of the Diocese of Dresden-Meissen
At the Petrikirche 6, 02625 Bautzen
Germany

Postal address:Bishops' Ordinariat
Käthe-Kollwitz-Ufer 84, 01309 Dresden
Germany

Phone:03591 - 35195 0
Fax:03591 - 35195 22
E-mail:Archiv@ordinariat-bautzen.de
Website
Covers the Deanery of Gera, the Catholics of the former territorial states Reuss younger and older line and Saxony-Altenburg.