Holzburg Parish, Hesse-Nassau, Prussia, German Empire Genealogy

Guide to Holzburg Parish, Hesse-Nassau, Prussia, Germany ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, and military records.

Jurisdictional Changes
Holzburg has belonged to the following independent countries or post-1871 German states:

Place Names
A very good gazetteer to begin with is Meyers Gazetteer. For more information, see the entry for Holzburg.

Another essential online gazetteer to check is the Historic Gazetteer from Compgen. For more information, see the entry for Holzburg.

Church Records
Church records for this part of the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau are held at the Evangelical Church Archive of Kurhessen-Waldeck in Kassel, Germany. The following records have been digitized by the website Archion. Archion requires a subscription. You can learn how to use Archion by clicking here. There are no indexes to these records. More recent records may be restricted.

Holzburg
Church records begin in 1604. There is a gap in records between 1688 and 1702.


 * 1604-1687 Church records 1604-1687 at Archion – images ($)
 * 1703-1776 Church records 1703-1776 at Archion – images ($)
 * 1777-1830 Church records 1777-1830 at Archion – images ($)
 * 1830-1870 Church records 1830-1870 at Archion – images ($)
 * 1861-2015 Baptisms 1861-2015 at Archion – images ($)
 * 1861-2014 Marriages 1861-2014 at Archion – images ($)
 * 1871-2014 Burials 1871-2014 at Archion – images ($)

Fischbach
The village of Fischbach was in Hesse, but the church community remained in Hesse-Nassau, Prussia.


 * 1830-1882 Church records 1830-1882 at Archion – images ($)
 * 1845-1982 Baptisms 1845-1982 at Archion – images ($)
 * 1845-1981 Confirmations 1845-1981 at Archion – images ($)
 * 1844-1980 Marriages 1844-1980 at Archion – images ($)
 * 1846-1982 Burials 1846-1982 at Archion – images ($)

Civil Registration
Civil registration for Holzburg began in October 1874.

Town Genealogy (OFB or Ortsfamilienbuch)
For more information about compiled genealogies, see the article Germany Town Genealogies.

Societies and Libraries
Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck Family History Society for Nassau and Frankfurt Hessian Family History Association Hessian State Archives Society for Family Studies in Kurhessen and Waldeck