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

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

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

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

Locations within Salmünster
Catholic parish included the following villages over time: Ahl, Alsberg, Hausen, Marborn (including Marjoß, Seidenroth, Steinau), Romsthal (including Eckardroth, Hilbertsmühl, Kerbersdorf, Schönhof, Wahlert, Willenroth), Soden (including Salz). After 1831, the following are included: Birstein, Fischborn, Hesseldorf, Neuenschmidten, Schlierbach, Steinau, Unterreichenbach, Wächtersbach.

Catholic
Catholic church records for this part of the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau are held at the Fulda Diocesan Archive in Fulda, Germany. The following records have been digitized by the website Matricula Online. You can learn how to use Matricula Online by clicking here. There are no indexes to these records. More recent records may be restricted.

Salmünster
Church records begin in 1603.


 * 1603-1967 Church records 1603-1967 at Matricula Online - images; includes separate books for Ahl (starting 1831) and Hausen (starting 1822)

Soden (and Salz)

 * 1831-1988 Church records 1831-1988 at Matricula Online - images

Lutheran
Lutheran 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.

Church records begin in 1858.


 * 1858-1968 Baptisms 1858-1968 at Archion - images, ($)
 * 1858-1997 Confirmations 1858-1997 at Archion - images, ($)
 * 1858-1989 Marriages 1858-1989 at Archion - images, ($)
 * 1858-1982 Burials 1858-1982 at Archion - images, ($)

Civil Registration
Civil registration for Salmünster 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