Localities and Parishes of Hessen-Darmstadt, Germany
by U. Petra Suess

(EDITOR'S NOTE: It took quite a bit of editing to get this into its present format. In the process some mistakes could have been made in cutting and pasting, and other judgments. Please if you see anything you can correct, as with anything else on these Internet sites, send in your corrections so it won't mislead other genealogist and so we can have the most accurate resources possible. Thanks, Gary H.)

SCOPE

This gazetteer includes all the hamlets, villages, and cities found in the parts of Hesse-Darmstadt known as Starkenburg, Rhein-Hessen, and Ober-Hessen. It includes the areas included in Hesse-Darmstadt's borders as it existed from about 1866 to 1945. It describes both Protestant and Catholic records, their location, and when then begin.

It does not include the Prussian province of Hessen-Nassau. The gazetteer does not include rivers, mountains, railroads, civil registration, or Jewish records.

HOW TO USE THIS GAZETTEER

The date in parenthesis following the name of the parish is either the date the earliest records start or the date when this particular town was first listed in the parish records of that parish.

Where a town is followed by a reference to another town (such as: Altenfelder Hof, see Ober-Seemen), it is generally a small farm (Hof), forest house, or farming community that was considered part of the larger community that it is referenced to.

OTHER SOURCES

For other reference helps for Hessen please see:

Kirchenbücher und Standesregister für alle Wohnplätze im Land Hessen, Darmstadt 1939. (FHL book 943.41 K23p, film 0496714)

OTHER RELIGIONS

Jewish Synagogue Records from the following towns:

Mennonite Records from the following towns:

Waldenser Records from the following towns: