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

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

Place Names
The best gazetteer to begin with is Meyers Gazetteer. For more information, see the entry for Schlüchtern.

Church Records
Church records for this part of the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau are held at the Evangelical Church 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
The Lutheran residents of Schlüchtern belonged to the parish of Steinau.

Reformed
Church records begin in 1577.


 * church records 1577-1677
 * church records 1677-1683
 * church records 1684-1775
 * church records 1704-1743
 * church records 1744-1754
 * church records 1755-1791
 * church records 1782-1800
 * church records 1785-1800a
 * church records 1785-1800b
 * church records 1801-1818
 * church records 1801-1826
 * church records 1825-1830
 * baptisms 1801-1830
 * baptisms 1831-1863
 * baptisms 1864-1889
 * confirmations 1776-1830
 * confirmations 1831-1918
 * marriages 1831-1879
 * burials 1831-1868
 * burials 1869-1898

Civil Registration
Civil registration for Schlüchtern began in October 1874.

Town Genealogy (OFB or Ortsfamilienbuch)
For more information about compiled genealogies, see the article Germany Compiled Genealogies.

Societies and Libraries
Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck Family History Society for Nassau and Frankfurt Hessen State Archives Society for Family Studies in Kurhessen and Waldeck