Berlin, Brandenburg, German Empire Church Records

For a list of addresses of churches in Berlin this is a helpful site.

Many parishes in Berlin have been indexed and names appear in the International Genealogical Index.

Many of the church records for Greater Berlin have been microfilmed. They are listed in the Family History Library catalog. Parish records for municipalities in the state of Berlin outside the central city, will be listed in Places within Germany, Preußen, Brandenburg with a "Berlin-" prefix.

Archives of the Diocese of Berlin
Dioezesanarchiv Berlin Bethaniendamm 2a 10997 Berlin (Kreuzberg) Germany Website: http://www.dioezesanarchiv-berlin.de Diocesan Archives Berlin Bethaniendamm 29 10997 Berlin (Kreuzberg) Phone: +49 (0) 30 22504580 Fax: +49 (0) 30 22504583 E-Mail: info@dioezesanarchiv-berlin.de Please provide your full name and postal address for all inquiries.
 * List of holdings.

Online Database
Online records from this archive are available on Archion: Land Archive Archive in Berlin. Do not go to the Evangelical Central Archives, Berlin. They cover Prussia, Silesia, and so on, not Berlin itself.

Contact Information
If you visit the archives, reservations to use the reading room must be made 2-3 months in advance. Evangelical Land Archives Archive in Berlin (ELAB) Bethaniendamm 29 10997 Berlin (Kreuzberg) Germany

Telephone:+49 (0) 30 2250 4565 Fax:+49 (0) 30 2250 4510 E-mail:Elab@ekbo.de

Holdings
For the list of parish record holdings of the Evangelische Landeskirchliches Archiv in Berlin, click here.

Communion Card Index
The communion card index stored in the ELAB is a general help tool for Old Berlin. Alt-Berlin means here the six inner city districts Mitte, Friedrichshain, Prenzlauer Berg, Kreuzberg, Tiergarten and Wedding. These index cards contain, in alphabetical order, all Protestant baptisms in Alt-Berlin from 1750 to 1874. The garrison community and the French-reformed community are not taken into consideration. For information about requesting research, Click here. A request for a search of this index can helpnarrow down which parish the family lived in.