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

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

Jurisdictional Changes
Höringhausen 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 Höringhausen.

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

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.

Lutheran
Church records begin in 1731.


 * 1731-1809 Church records 1731-1809 at Archion - images ($)
 * 1810-1840 Baptisms 1810-1840 at Archion - images ($)
 * 1840-1867 Baptisms 1840-1867 at Archion - images ($)
 * 1867-1875 Baptisms 1867-1875 at Archion - images ($)
 * 1876-2002 Baptisms 1876-2002 at Archion - images ($)
 * 1810-1875 Confirmations 1810-1875 at Archion - images ($)
 * 1876-2002 Confirmations 1876-2002 at Archion - images ($)
 * 1810-1875 Marriages 1810-1875 at Archion - images ($)
 * 1876-2002 Marriages 1876-2002 at Archion - images ($)
 * 1810-1855 Burials 1810-1855 at Archion - images ($)
 * 1856-1875 Burials 1856-1875 at Archion - images ($)
 * 1876-2002 Burials 1876-2002 at Archion - images ($)

Jewish Records
Jewish Records for this part of the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau are held at the Hessian Main State Archive in Wiesbaden, Germany. The following digitized records are available in the Hessian Vital Records collection in LAGIS (Hessian Regional History Information System). These records have been indexed by JewishGen and can be searched for in their JewishGen German Collection database. Results are found in The Hessen Gatermann Index database. For help with understanding the Hebrew calendar dates click here.


 * 1822-1837 Births, marriages and deaths 1822-1837 at LAGIS - images
 * 1838-1861 Births 1838-1861 at LAGIS - images; includes index
 * 1859-1874 Births 1859-1874 at LAGIS - images; includes index
 * 1838-1872 Marriages 1838-1872 at LAGIS - images
 * 1838-1874 Deaths 1838-1874 at LAGIS - images; includes index

Civil Registration
Civil registration for Höringhausen 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