GEN-DE Villages in Germany with names of church parishes to which they belong
Lila Garner
Listers,
Mr. Horst Reschke wrote articles in Heritage Quest magazine.
In a 1999 article he addressed a question about the village of Neuteicherwalde. "...The village did not have a church. The Lutherans attended church at Baarenhof, the Catholics at Fürstenwerder...."
None of these places is of interest to me. My question concerns the source of his information. For example, he stated that the village population was about 300, 82% Lutheran and 15% Catholic, 3% "other Christians."
This must be some kind of gazetteer. Does one exist for the whole of Germany (like Meyers-Orts) or must one find such a gazetter for a small area containing the focus villages?
Lila
Joan Lowrey
kingdoms, duchies, Prussian provinces, etc.,
which list each town/village, and the town where
Catholic and protestant residents of that town
went to church. Look in the Family History
Library Catalog under the kingdom, province, etc.
Some of this is also in online. See
http://www.progenealogists.com/germany/gazetteersmain.html .
Note the date that each gazetteer was originally
published, because parishes to which a town
belonged can be different over the course of
years. A book on parishes in the Rheinland-Pfalz
shows the dates during which the town belonged to
a parish in each different town.
There is also a recently published series of
books under the title _Map Guide to German Parish
Registers_. 48 volumes are planned -- 28 have
been published to date. See
familyrootspublishing.com . Many genealogy
libraries and Family History Centers have purchased these books.
Joan Neumann Lowrey
>Mr. Horst Reschke wrote articles in Heritage Quest magazine.
>In a 1999 article he addressed a question about
>the village of Neuteicherwalde. "...The village
>did not have a church. The Lutherans attended
>church at Baarenhof, the Catholics at F�rstenwerder...."
Lila Garner
Thank you, Joan, for sending the URL for this extremely valuable Website!! I already know some new things about one of the Hessian villages I search--that it's history goes back into a different parish!
Lila
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Karl P Anderson
My g-grandfather came from Laverne, Prussia, I believe. I found a
Laverne Westfalen Germany, but when I went to the profenealogists web
site it could not locate Laverne anywhere. I see there is a login. Do I
have to get a login before search will work? Any ideas?
Karl
Joan Lowrey
Progenealogists.com does not have the Westfalen gazetteer online.
However, the Family History Library (FHL) has it, and you can rent
the microfilm at any Family History Center. It is:
Heft 10 (Westfalen, Waldeck, Pyrmont) FHL Film 1346210 Item 2
However, if your great-grandfather was evangelisch (Protestant:
Lutheran or Reformed), there was a parish in Levern (note the correct
spelling), so you don't need to consult the gazetteer.
The parish registers for Levern are available on FHL
microfilm. There are two sets:
* Parish registers, 1679-1918 (9 rolls of film) and
* Parish register duplicates, 1808-1874 (4 rolls of film).
It is best to read the original registers rather than the duplicates,
as errors and short-cuts can occur when records are copies. However,
if anything is illegible in the original books, then use the duplicates.
You can get the film numbers you need at www. familysearch.org.
Select Library, then Library Catalog.
Joan Neumann Lowrey