Rengershausen Parish (Kr. Frankenberg), Hesse-Nassau, Prussia, German Empire Genealogy

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

Jurisdictional Changes
Rengershausen 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 Rengershausen. See entry note in Fraktur script for entry 3), which was included with entry 2).

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

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.

Rengershausen
Church records begin in 1568.


 * 1568-1629 Church records 1568-1629 at Archion - images($)
 * 1624-1775 Church records 1624-1775 at Archion - images($)
 * 1776-1830 Church records 1776-1830 at Archion - images($)
 * 1830-1977 Baptisms 1830-1977 at Archion - images($)
 * 1830-2014 Confirmations and marriages 1830-2014 at Archion - images($)
 * 1830-2001 Burials 1830-2001 at Archion - images($)
 * 1830-1977 Index - Baptisms 1830-1977 at Archion - images($)

Hommershausen

 * 1831-2014 Baptisms and confirmations 1831-2014 at Archion - images($)
 * 1830-2012 Marriages and burials 1830-2012 at Archion - images($)

Wangershausen

 * 1774-1847 Church records 1774-1847 at Archion - images($)
 * 1830-1884 Church records 1830-1884 at Archion - images($)
 * 1885-2014 Baptisms and confirmations 1885-2014 at Archion - images($)
 * 1885-2014 Marriages and burials 1885-2014 at Archion - images($)

Reformed
The Reformed residents of Rengershausen and Wangershausen belonged to the Reformed parish of Frankenberg.

Civil Registration
Civil registration for Rengershausen 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