Neukirchen Parish (Kr. Hünfeld), Hesse-Nassau, Prussia, German Empire Genealogy

Guide to Neukirchen 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
Neukirchen 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 Neukirchen.

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

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.

Neukirchen
Church records begin in 1652.


 * 1652-1830 Church records are in the archives
 * 1831-1924 Baptisms 1831-1924 at Archion – images, ($)
 * 1831-1994 Confirmations 1831-1994 at Archion – images, ($)
 * 1831-1960 Marriages 1831-1960 at Archion – images, ($)
 * 1831-1941 Burials 1831-1941 at Archion – images, ($)
 * 1841-1995 Burials 1841-1995 at Archion – images, ($)
 * 1831-1884 Marriage banns 1831-1884 at Archion – images, ($)

Neukirchen, Mauers, Müsenbach, Meisenbach

 * 1800-1830 Church records 1800-1830 at Archion – images, ($)
 * 1652-1799 Baptisms, marriages, burials 1652-1799 at Archion – images, ($)

Civil Registration
Civil registration for Neukirchen 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