Hickengrund, Germany

The Hickengrund is made up of four villages Niederdresselndorf, Oberdresselndorf, Lützeln, and Holzhausen. Today these villages are in the municipality of Burbach in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Detlev Kretzer has an excellent website www.hickengrund.de written in German about this area. His informative copyright website contains information on the history, genealogy and dialect of the area.

The German Wikipedia also has a short article about the area: Hickengrund.

Church Records
The records in the FamilySearch Catalog are found under Germany, Preußen, Westfalen, Niederdresselndorf

Under church records are found two listings:

Kirchenbuch, 1588-1919, and

Kirchenbuchduplikat, 1826-1874

The Niederdresselndorf church books were begun on 21 November 1587 by Pastor Jacob Juncker. At first he only recorded baptisms. Marriages were recorded beginning in1590, followed by communicants starting in 1598. The recording of deaths was not begun until 1658. In 1587 the parish of Niederdresselndorf included the Hickengrund villages of Niederdresselndorf, Oberdresselndorf, and Lützeln. Holzhausen, the fourth Hickengrund village, was in the parish of Haiger until 1607.

Emigration
This area provided immigrants to the British colonies in North America, some of whom are listed in the following books:

Gerber, Adolf. The Emigration from Nassau-Dillenburg to America in the Eighteenth Century : The Conduct of the Governments Towards It and The Ensuing Fates Of The Emigrants. Translated by Lissy L. Weirich. Privately published, 1984.

Goebel, Julius. Briefe Deutscher Auswanderer aus dem Jahre 1709. Illinois: Nachdruck aus dem Jahrbuch der Deutsch-amerikanischen Historischen Gesellschaft von Illinois, 1912.

Ortsfamilienbuch
Ortsfamilienbuch Hickengrund a very important resource, a "local family book" of the people with their vital statistics who have lived in the Hickengrund since the 16th century.