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History And Geography


Dachau, city, Bavaria Land (state), southern Germany. It lies on the Amper River, just northwest of Munich. First mentioned in 805, it remained a small market town until the 20th century, attaining civic status in 1934. Dachau is situated on a hill, on the summit of which are the castle of the Wittelsbachs and a parish church (1625). The city’s picturesque natural setting has long attracted landscape painters. Industries include the production of paper, cardboard, electrical equipment, textiles, and ceramics. In 1933 the first concentration camp set up by the Nazi SS (Schutzstaffel) was opened on the site of a former ammunition factory on the outskirts of Dachau. A museum and memorial chapels were opened in the 1960s. Pop. (2003 est.) 39,474.

Online Records

 * There is some Dachau information at Find A Grave
 * Bavaria, Germany, WWI Personnel Rosters, 1914-1918 includes information on some soldiers from Dachau on Ancestry.com
 * Various records can be found through the Meta-search tool on the website of the German Society for Computer Genealogy.

This link takes you to the FamilySearch Catalog list of microfilmed documents for civil records of marriage proclamations, marriage supplements, and permissions to change residence for Dachau residents. Digitized films (camera icon) can be viewed at a family history center or affiliate library. Requests to digitize can be submitted for films not yet available online (microfilm icon). For more information about this record type see Bavaria Marriage Proclamation and Residency Records.

Catholic Records

 * The Standesamt (Civil Registration Office) at the Rathaus (Town Hall) has records back to around 1887xxxx. If you are seeking information concerning your family prior to that time it is necessary to go to church records.

St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church
Some of the Catholic parish records are kept at the Catholic parsonage in Schönsee.

Katholisches Pfarramt St. Wenceslaus Pfarrgasse 4 92539 Schönsee Germany Tel .: 09674/230 Website

Lutheran Church Records
Bavaria was and is predominantly Catholic. If your ancestors lived in Schönsee, there is a chance they affiliated with the Catholic church because of the prohibitive distance to a Lutheran church. (There is not a Lutheran Church in Schnösee.) However, if you do not find them in Catholic records, you should search the Lutheran records.


 * According to Meyer's Gazetteer, the only close Lutheran church in 1871 was Neunburg vorm Wald, about a 28 km journey.
 * PARISH OFFICE NEUNBURG VORM WALD
 * Bahnhofstrasse 3
 * 92431 Neunburg
 * Tel: 0967291350
 * Fax: 0967291352
 * E-Mail: pfarramt@neunburg-evangelisch.de
 * Website: http://www.neunburg-evangelisch.de
 * FamilySearch Catalog lists church records, which are currently on microfilm and should be digitized by 2020.


 * Today, Schönsee is served by the parish of Oberveichtach, about a 12 km journey.
 * PARISH OFFICE OBERVIECHTACH
 * Road: Martin Luther Street 4
 * City: 92526 Oberviechtach
 * Tel: 096711533
 * Fax: 09671918408
 * Website: http://www.oberviechtach-evangelisch.de
 * FamilySearch Catalog, digitized marriage records 1860-1862, can be searched at a Family History Center.
 * FamilySearch Catalog, digitized marriage records 1897-1912, can be searched at a Family History Center.


 * Many records for the Lutheran (Evangelical) church are digitized and available online through Archion. Others will be added, so check back occasionally.
 * Archive of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria (Nuremberg), ($). Detailed Instructions

Cemeteries
There is a beautifully kept cemetery in Dachau just down the street from the Catholic Church. If you want to find information on your ancestors in a cemetery, keep in mind that in most Bavarian cemeteries the grave plots are re-used as often as every 25 years. (sometimes 50 -100 years). However, there are a few tombstones back into the 1700's there. If you have family from one of the small villages near this town and you cannot find a cemetery there, check out Dachau. xxxxxxxxx and xxxxxxxxx are among those places that use the Dachau parish church and cemetery. The four cemeteries of Schönsee, xxxxxx, xxxxxx and xxxxx are within the jurisdiction of the administrative community of Dachau.