locating the church town in Germany (fwd)

Adalbert Goertz

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Mar 11, 2005, 4:53:54 PM3/11/05

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Who can help?
Is there a mailing-list for this area?

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Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 21:42:47 -0800 (PST)
From: Carol Schaefer <hga...@yahoo.com>
To: goe...@cyberspace.org
Subject: locating the church town in Germany

Dear Mr. Goertz,
Whenever I get stuck, I come to you for help! I have found the villages my great-grandparents came from in Unterfranken, Kissigen, Bayern in 1856. The villages were small, but I have managed to locate them on a map. The problem is that when I find a map with enough detail to show these villages, I can no longer see the main towns they were near. But these villages appear to be close to Bad Kissigen. The villages were: Grosswenkheim, Poppenlauer, and Theinfeld. I would like to write to the church they attended, but there's my problem. How do I find out which Catholic Church served these small towns?
Thank-you, again, for your help!
Sincerely,
Carol Schaefer

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Karina

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Mar 11, 2005, 6:28:14 PM3/11/05

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Hi there,
Each town in Germany has a website ending with .de :
http://www.bad-kissingen.de/branchen/index.html?o%5Btext%5D=Kirchen

On these websites they list the churches in the area. Some churches have
email addresses and you can write them in English. You might have to pay a
fee for them to send the information.

Good luck
Karina Holthoff
http://www.marykay.com/karina.holthoff
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/h/o/l/Karina-Holthoff-Arlington/index.html

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Henning Boettcher

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Mar 12, 2005, 9:57:08 AM3/12/05

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"Adalbert Goertz" <goe...@FoxValley.net> schrieb

The spelling of the large town is 'Bad Kissingen' (with an
additional 'n').
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Poppenlauer is now part of Massbach

Write to (if protestant)

Evangelisches Pfarramt Massbach
Poppenlauerer Str 16
D-97711 Maßbach
Germany

or to (if catholic)

Katholisches Pfarramt Massbach
Rannunger Str 7
D-97711 Maßbach
Germany

and ask them, where the parish records of that time and that town
can be found now.
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Theinfeld is now part of Thundorf.

Ask a similar question at

Katholisches Pfarramt
Esther-von-Rosenbach-Str 23
D-97711 Thundorf
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Grosswenkheim is now part of Muennerstadt.

Ask similar questions at

Evangelisches Pfarramt
Freiherr-von-Lutz-Str 9
D-97702 Muennerstadt
Germany

or at

Katholisches Pfarramt
Kirchplatz 5
D-97702 Muennerstadt
Germany
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Bernd Hoch

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Mar 27, 2005, 8:14:19 PM3/27/05

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Adalbert Goertz schrieb:

> Who can help?
> Is there a mailing-list for this area?
>

For 97711 (german ZIP) Maßbach/Poppenlauer

Ev. Pfarramt Maßbach,
Poppenlauerer Str.16,
97711 Maßbach, 09735-233

Ev. Pfarramt Poppenlauer, 97711 Maßbach, 09733-1080

Katholisches Pfarramt Maßbach,
Rannunger Str. 7,
97711 Maßbach, 09735-602
Pfarramt Poppenlauer,
97711 Maßbach,
09733-9996

"Ev." ----------- means the german protestant church,
"Katholisches" - means roman catholic church in Germany

For Großwenkheim (now known as
97702 Münnerstadt/Großwenkheim
as follows:

Ev.- Pfarramt,
Freiherr-von-Lutz-Str. 9,
97702 Münnerstadt, 09733-9095

katholische - Pfarrrämter,
97702 Münnerstadt, 09733-9001

katholische Pfarrrämter,
Kirchplatz 5,
97702 Münnerstadt, 09733-9630

For now known 97711 Thundorf/Theisfeld I couldnt find out
nothing but u may ask in Maßbach

good luck

Bernd from Dortmund,
Germany

E_Thomas

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Mar 28, 2005, 9:31:35 AM3/28/05

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Adalbert Goertz wrote:

> Whenever I get stuck, I come to you for help! I have found the
villages my great-grandparents came from in Unterfranken, Kissigen,
>Bayern in 1856. The villages were small, but I have managed to locate
them on a map. The problem is that when I find a map with enough
>detail to show these villages, I can no longer see the main towns they
were near. But these villages appear to be close to Bad Kissigen. The
>villages were: Grosswenkheim, Poppenlauer, and Theinfeld. I would
like to write to the church they attended, but there's my problem. How
>do I find out which Catholic Church served these small towns?

These Villages are all Part of the Dekanat (office of a dean) in the
bishopric (Bistum in german) or also called diocese (Diözesse) Würzburg.
The Homepage with Links to all parish (Pfarreien) is

http://www.bistum-wuerzburg.de/bwo/opencms/pfarreien/dekanate/bad_kissingen/index.html

Here you can see all postal adresses, telephon and fax numbers.

Kind regards

Thomas E