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

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

Place Names
The best gazetteer to begin with is Meyers Gazetteer. For more information, see the entry for Brotterode.

Church Records
Church records for this part of the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau are held at the Evangelical Church 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
The Lutheran records begin in 1830.


 * baptisms 1830-1850
 * baptisms 1849-1851
 * baptisms 1851-1865
 * baptisms 1866-1894
 * baptisms 1895-1910
 * baptisms 1911-1931
 * confirmations 1895-1913
 * confirmations 1914-1947
 * marriages 1830-1894
 * marriages 1895-1923
 * marriages 1924-1955
 * burials 1830-1855
 * burials 1849-1850
 * burials 1856-1894
 * burials 1895-1918
 * burials 1919-1955
 * burials 1956-1971
 * burials 1972-1981

Reformed
Church records begin in 1700.


 * church records 1700-1772
 * church records 1773-1863 (the Lutheran parish records should also be viewed)

Civil Registration
Civil registration for Brotterode began in October 1874.

Town Genealogy (OFB or Ortsfamilienbuch)
For more information about compiled genealogies, see the article Germany Compiled Genealogies.

Societies and Libraries
Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck Family History Society for Nassau and Frankfurt Hessen State Archives Society for Family Studies in Kurhessen and Waldeck