Parishes of Waldeck-Pyrmont Hessen, Germany

by U. Petra Suess

Scope

This gazetteer includes all the hamlets, villages, and cities found in the gazetteer for Waldeck and Pyrmont. It covers the borders as they existed from about 1812 to 1945. The gazetteer does not include rivers, mountains, railroads, civil registration jurisdictions, or Jewish records. The gazetteer does list the beginning year of Protestant parish registers but not the beginning year of Catholic parish registers.

The towns listed in this gazetteer have been compiled from the Gemeindelexikon für das Königreich Preußen, Heft 10, Provinz Westfalen nebst Fürstentümern Waldeck und Pyrmont, (Town Inventory for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume 10, Province of Westphalia along with the Pricipalities of Waldeck and Pyrmont) section B "Fürstentümer Waldeck und Pyrmont." The towns, listed in column 2, have been extracted along with their corresponding Protestant and Catholic parishes, listed in columns 25 and 26. Additional place-names were also extracted from the index.

Erich Eisenberg's Kirchenbuchverzeichnis der Evangelischen Kirche von Kurhessen-Waldeck (Parish Register Inventory of the Protestant Churches of Hesse-Waldeck) was used to determine the starting date of Protestant parish registers and to identify many of the "districts."

Arrangement

Blank spaces between words and hyphens are disregarded in filing. For example:

Alte Wiese
Alt-Wildungen
Am Helfer Stein
Ammenhausen
Am Rosenberge

Towns with adjectives such as Neuer, Nieder, or Ober in their names are listed twice: once with the adjective before the town name and once with the adjective after the town name. For example:

Neuer Garten
Garten, Neuer

The German letter ß is filed as if it were ss. For example:

Nieder-Werberhammer
Nießmühle
Nordenbeck

The letters ä, ö, and ü file as if they were ae, oe, and ue. For example:

Bühle
Büllinghausen
Buhlen

Other Sources

"Die evangelischen Kirchenbücher in Waldeck-Pyrmont," (The Protestant Parish Registers in Waldeck-Pyrmont), Geschichtsblätter für Waldeck, Bd. 35, pp. 146-165. (FHL fiche 6001420.)

Eisenberg, Erich. Kirchenbuchverzeichnis der Evangelischen Kirche von Kurhessen-Waldeck. (Parish Register Inventory of the Protestant Churches of Hessen-Nassau and Waldeck). Kassel: Verlag Evangelisher Pressverband Kurhessen-Waldeck, 1973. (FHL book 943.41 K23e.)

Gemeindelexikon für das Königreich Preußen. Heft 10, Provinz Westfalen nebst Fürstentümern Waldeck und Pyrmont. (Town Inventory for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume 10, Province of Westphalia along with the Pricipalities of Waldeck and Pyrmont). section B "Fürstentümer Waldeck und Pyrmont." Berlin: Königlichen Statistischen Landesamts, 1909. (FHL film 1181006.)

Kloppenburg, Walter. Die Kirchenbücher in Waldeck-Pyrmont und Itter. (The Parish Registers in Waldeck-Pyrmont and Itter.) Mengeringhausen: Waldeckschen Geschichtsverein, 1935. (FHL book 943.41 K23kw.)

Krieg, R. "Alter und Bestand der Kirchenbücher in den Fürstenthümern Lippe, Birkenfeld, Lübeck, Waldeck und Schaumburg," (Old and Enduring Parish Registers of the Principalities of Birkenfeld, Lübeck, Waldeck, and Scaumburg), Zeitschrift des Historischen Vereins für Niedersachsen, pp. 146-63. Hannover: Hahn'sche Buchhandlung, 1895. (FHL film 1181595 item 8.)

Wecken, Marie. "Die katholischen Kirchenbücher des Bistums Paderborn," (The Catholic Parish Registers of the Diocese of Paderborn), Familiengeschichtliche Blätter,Heft 12, pp. 359-368. Leipzig: Zentralstelle für Deutsche Personen- und Familiengeschichte e. V., 1926. Includes Waldeck, among others. (FHL film 1181595 item 14.)