Baden, German Empire Jewish Records

Synagogue Records
Synagogue records at Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg are fully digitized and no longer available for searching in the archive. The collection (Bestand J386) includes birth, marriage, and death registers, family books, and other lists, mostly from the 19th Century. This collection, part of the Gatermann films, complements the records available at the Family History Library and elsewhere for this area.
 * Jüdsche Standesbücher--Registries of Jewish births, marriages, and deaths. To view, click on "Bildexplorer."
 * Filme von Personenstandsregistern jüdischer Gemeinden in Württemberg, Baden und Hohenzollern 126 rolls of microfilm from civil status registers of Jewish communities in Württemberg, Baden and Hohenzollern, listed alphabetical by locality. To view, click on "Digitalisate einsehen."

The Karlsruhe branch of the Landesarchiv has put online the duplicate church and synagogue registers for northern Baden, covering approximately 1810 to January 1870. [] Similarly, the Freiburg branch has published those records for southern Baden. [] Jewish, Catholic, Lutheran and other records are bound together, year by year. A Familysearch indexing project is underway.

Navigating the site
The alphabetical listing by town name is available by clicking on Strukturansicht.
 * Select a letter to see a list of villages beginning with that letter.
 * Descriptions that include links to digital images include the phrase " Digitalisate einsehen" in red. Click on that phrase to bring up thumbnails of the first ten images and a navigation bar.
 * "1 bis 10" with simple forward and back arrows allows you to page forward and back within this set. The arrows with a vertical line take you to the first or last image of the entire book.
 * "Bitte wählen" brings up the list of available pages, so you can click on a page number. The system then loads that page plus the next nine images.
 * "Bilder pro Seite" allows you to select how many images to display at a time.

Register Inventory

 * Kirchen- und Familienbücher, sowie Israelitische Standesbücher (Verfilmungen) (October 2021) .pdf at Lutheran Church Archive Karlsruhe. List of church and family registers as well as Jewish civil registers that have been microfilmed or digitized. All books, except the Jewish records and records still being digitized, are available on the subscription website Archion. Due to the poor quality of filming of the Jewish records completed in the 1940s, they will not be digitized, but can be viewed onsite at the archive.

Jewish History Synagogue Links

 * Links to historical information by former and existing synagogue

Cemetery Records

 * Jewish Cemeteries in Baden-Württemberg