Niederdresselndorf, Germany

57299 Niederdresselndorf is a village in the municipality of Burbach in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is in a region called the Hickengrund. Please refer to that page while this page is under construction.

The village website is also very informative.

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.