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

Guide to Frankenberg 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
Frankenberg 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 Frankenberg.

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

Locations within Frankenberg
Reformed: Birkenbringhausen (or Bringhausen in den Birken), Somplar

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 1646.


 * church records 1646-1656 ($)
 * church records 1657-1665 ($)
 * church records 1666-1693 ($)
 * church records 1694-1703 ($)
 * church records 1704-1714 ($)
 * church records 1715-1738 ($)
 * church records 1727-1741 ($)
 * church records 1727-1777 ($)
 * church records 1742-1760 ($)
 * church records 1756-1797 ($)
 * church records 1781-1830 ($)
 * church records 1798-1831 ($)
 * church records 1830-1903 ($)
 * baptisms 1830-1863 ($)
 * baptisms 1864-1899 ($)
 * baptisms 1900-1929 ($)
 * confirmations 1904-1959 ($)
 * marriages 1879-1938 ($)
 * marriages 1938-1952 ($)
 * marriages 1953-1971 ($)
 * burials 1830-1849 ($)
 * burials 1850-1868 ($)
 * burials 1869-1917 ($)
 * burials 1918-1969 ($)
 * burials 1970-1982 ($)
 * burials 1982-1994 ($)

Reformed
Church records begin in 1662.


 * church records 1662-1693 ($)
 * church records 1693-1711 ($)
 * church records 1711-1790 ($)
 * church records 1791-1830 ($)
 * church records 1830-1927 ($)
 * church records 1847-1875 ($)
 * baptisms 1830-1917 ($)
 * confirmations 1887-1959 ($)
 * marriages 1868-1959 ($)
 * burials 1928-1959 ($)

Civil Registration
Civil registration for Frankenberg 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