Bredstedt Parish, Schleswig-Holstein, Prussia, German Empire Genealogy

Guide to Bredstedt Parish, Schleswig-Holstein, Prussia, German Empire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

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

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

Church Records
Church records for this part of the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein are held at the Evangelical Church Archive of Northern Germany in Kiel, 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.

Civil Registration
Civil registration for Bredstedt began in October 1874. Bredstedt had its own civil registration office.

For civil registration records, start by contacting the Mittleres Nordfriesland civil registration office in Bredstedt.

Census Records
The Danish Crown conducted several censuses in the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. For more information about these censuses, see the article Denmark Census.

The following censuses were taken for Bredstedt:
 * 1801
 * 1835
 * 1840
 * 1845
 * 1855

Town Genealogy (OFB or Ortsfamilienbuch)
There is no known town genealogy for the parish of Bredstedt. For more information about compiled genealogies, see the article Germany Town Genealogies.

Related Sources
Bredstedt is now part of the municipality of Mittleres Nordfriesland. The municipality's website (in German) can be found here.