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

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

Jurisdictional Changes
Speckswinkel 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 Speckswinkel.

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

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.

Speckswinkel
Church records begin in 1676.


 * 1676-1772 Church records 1676-1772 at Archion – images, ($)
 * 1773-1847 Church records 1773-1847 at Archion – images, ($)
 * 1831-1928 Church records 1831-1928 at Archion – images, ($)
 * 1830-1936 Baptisms and confirmations 1830-1936 at Archion – images, ($)
 * 1902-2001 Baptisms 1902-2001 at Archion – images, ($)
 * 1773-1837 Marriages 1773-1837 at Archion – images, ($)
 * 1830-1930 Marriages and burials 1830-1930 at Archion – images, ($)
 * 1930-2000 Marriages 1930-2000 at Archion – images, ($)
 * 1884-2001 Burials 1884-2001 at Archion – images, ($)

Erksdorf

 * 1773-1847 Church records 1773-1847 at Archion – images, ($)
 * 1830-1934 Baptisms and confirmations 1830-1934 at Archion – images, ($)
 * 1831-1920 Baptisms, marriages, and burials 1831-1920 at Archion – images, ($)
 * 1869-1919 Baptisms 1869-1919 at Archion – images, ($)
 * 1919-2001 Baptisms and burials 1919-2001 at Archion – images, ($)
 * 1830-1861 Marriagess and burials 1830-1861 at Archion – images, ($)
 * 1861-1936 Marriagess 1861-1936 at Archion – images, ($)
 * 1936-2001 Marriagess 1936-2001 at Archion – images, ($)
 * 1855-1921 Burials 1855-1921 at Archion – images, ($)
 * 1962-2001 Burials 1962-2001 at Archion – images, ($)

Allendorf (Stadtallendorf)
After 1960 the town was known as Stadtallendorf.


 * 1942-1964 Marriages 1942-1964 at Archion – images, ($)
 * 1943-1974 Burials 1943-1974 at Archion – images, ($)
 * 1974-1995 Burials 1974-1995 at Archion – images, ($)

Reformed
The Reformed residents of villages within the Lutheran parish of Speckswinkel belonged to the Reformed parish of Rauschenberg.

Civil Registration
Civil registration for Speckswinkel 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