Bredstedt Parish, Schleswig-Holstein, Prussia, German Empire Genealogy

Danish: Bredsted

North Frisian: Bräist

Low German: Breedsteed

South Jutish: Bräjst

Guide to Bredstedt Parish, Schleswig-Holstein, Prussia, German Empire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, and military records.

Place Names
A very good gazetteer to begin with is Meyers Gazetteer. For more information, see the entry for Bredstedt.

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

Church Records
Church records for this part of the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein are held at the Evangelical Lutheran Church Archive of Northern Germany in Kiel, Germany.

Bredstedt had its own Protestant parish. The following website(s) have digitized church records for the parish of Bredstedt:

More recent records may be restricted.
 * Archion, which requires a subscription. You can learn how to use Archion by clicking here. There are no digital indexes to the records on Archion.
 * FamilySearch, which contains a mixture of indexed and non-indexed records.

Civil Registration
Bredstedt had its own civil registration office. Civil registration for Bredstedt began on 1 October 1874.

For Bredstedt civil registration records, start by contacting the Mittleres Nordfriesland civil registration office in Bredstedt.

Census Records
Denmark conducted several censuses in the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. For more information about these censuses, see the articles Denmark Census and Schleswig-Holstein Census.

The following censuses were taken for Bredstedt:
 * 1803
 * 1835
 * 1840
 * 1845
 * 1855
 * 1860

The following website(s) have digitized census records for the parish of Bredstedt:
 * Danish Family Search
 * FamilySearch
 * MyHeritage

Town Genealogy (OFB or Ortsfamilienbuch)
There is no known town genealogy for the parish of Bredstedt. For more information about compiled genealogies, see the article Germany Town Genealogies.

Related Sources
The Bredstedt town website (in German) can be found here.