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

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

Jurisdictional Changes
Niederurff 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 Niederurff.

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

Locations within Niederurff
Löwenstein (this is a castle, on Meyers map you can see the ruins marked just south of Schiffelborn)

Wickershof (this is a landed estate, found in Meyers as “Oberster W.” and “Unterster .”)

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 1656.


 * 1657-1729 Church records 1657-1729 at Archion - images, ($)
 * 1657-1729 Church records 1657-1729 at Archion - images, ($); darker images
 * 1730-1772 Church records 1730-1772 at Archion - images, ($)
 * 1730-1772 Church records 1730-1772 at Archion - images, ($); darker images
 * 1773-1827 Church records 1773-1827 at Archion - images, ($)
 * 1773-1827 Church records 1773-1827 at Archion - images, ($); darker images
 * 1828-1830 Church records 1828-1830 at Archion - images, ($)
 * 1828-1830 Church records 1828-1830 at Archion - images, ($); darker images
 * 1830-1865 Baptisms 1830-1865 at Archion - images, ($)
 * 1866-2007 Baptisms 1866-2007 at Archion - images, ($)
 * 1831-1994 Confirmations 1831-1994 at Archion - images, ($)
 * 1821-1874 Marriage banns 1821-1874 at Archion - images, ($)
 * 1830-1935 Marriages 1830-1935 at Archion - images, ($)
 * 1830-1891 Burials 1830-1891 at Archion - images, ($)

Civil Registration
Civil registration for Niederurff 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