Archion.de 3-Month or 1-Year Passes on Sale from April 22 thru May 6, 2022

 If you have ancestors from Germany who were Evangelische in religion, you may have heard of the Archion.de website. It was founded in 2016 by the Evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland with eleven regional Evangelische churches. The website has continued to grow through the years and currently has over 125,000 church books digitized and now 23 partner archives which include primarily protestant archives as well as archives of dioceses, states, towns and associations.

From today, April 22, 2022, through Friday, May 6 2022, Archion.de is having sale on 3-month or 1-year passes.

Passes -- Paid-Access starting from time of purchase.

3-Month Pass is regularly €52.20 now on sale for €44 including VAT
This pass allows an individual user to access the digital church book archive for three months (90 days) starting from the date of subscription, as well as up to 150 image (PDF) downloads.

1-Year Pass is regularly €178.80 now on sale for €144 including VAT
This pass allows an individual user to access the digital church book archive for one year (365 days) starting from the date of subscription, as well as up to 600 image (PDF) downloads.

At this time, vouchers or coupons are not on sale. Vouchers/Coupons allow an individual user to access the digital church book archive for period purchased starting from the date of redemption by the recipient. You have two years to activate a voucher/coupon.

You must create an account prior to making a purchase. Or be logged in with an existing account. Purchases can be made using a credit card or PayPal. Passes and Vouchers do not automatically renew.

The Archion website is in German with some English translated website pages. You are able to browse the contents of the website for free meaning what is available. Uploaded digitized church books are shaded in green. If a location or book is not shaded in green than it is not yet uploaded. The forum boards are also free but you must be logged into the website and have the site in German (DE.)

The church books are organized first by the regional holding archive and the regional division and the parish location where you can then see what records types and time periods are available. At this time the digitized church records are mostly NOT electronically indexed so this is a browse and manually search like you would have done in the days of microfilm. And yes, the record images are in German in that old Schrift handwriting for the most part.

Here is a relatively current list of the provinces and archives included on the Archion.de website. Church books are added daily. Generally, in batches from three or so different archives each month. The monthly email newsletter usually informs what was recently added, what is currently being added, and what will be added next.

Abroad and Nationally

• Evangelisches Zentralarchiv in Berlin
• Mennonite Research Center
• Baden Wurttemberg
• Landeskirchliches Archiv Karlsruhe
• Landeskirchliches Archiv Stuttgart

• Diözesanarchiv Rottenburg
• Erzbischöfliches Archiv Freiburg
• Stadtarchiv Reutlingen
• Stadtarchiv Ulm

 

Bavaria

• Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evang.-Luth. Kirche in Bayern

• Archiv des Bistums Augsburg
• Archiv des Bistums Passau
• Archiv des Erzbistums Bamberg
• Archiv des Erzbistums München und Freising
• Bischöfliches Zentralarchiv Regensburg
• Diözesanarchiv Eichstätt
• Diözesanarchiv Würzburg

Berlin / Brandenburg

• Evangelisches Zentralarchiv in Berlin
• Evangelisches Landeskirchliches Archiv in Berlin

• Archiv des Katholischen Militärbischofs für die Deutsche Bundeswehr
• Diözesanarchiv Berlin

 

Hamburg

• Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evang.-Luth. Kirche in Norddeutschland (Kiel)

Hesse

• Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evangelischen Kirche von Kurhessen-Waldeck
• Zentralarchiv der Evangelischen Kirche in Hessen und Nassau

• Archiv der deutschen Jugendbewegung
• Archiv des Bistums Limburg
• Bistumsarchiv Fulda
• Hessisches Landesarchiv
• Stadtarchiv Kassel
• Universitätsbibliothek Kassel

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

• Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evang.-Luth. Kirche in Norddeutschland (Greifswald)
• Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evang.-Luth. Kirche in Norddeutschland (Schwerin)

Lower Saxony

• Bistumsarchiv Hildesheim
• Archiv der Evang.-Luth. Kirche in Oldenburg
• Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evang.-luth. Landeskirche in Braunschweig
• Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evang.-luth. Landeskirche Hannovers

North Rhine Westphalia

• Archiv der Evangelischen Kirche im Rheinland
• Archiv der Lippischen Landeskirche
• Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evangelischen Kirche von Westfalen

• Bischöfliches Diözesanarchiv Aachen
• Bistumsarchiv Essen
• Erzbistumsarchiv Paderborn
• Fliedner-Kulturstiftung Kaiserswerth
• Historisches Archiv des Erzbistums Köln

Rhineland Palatinate

• Archiv der Evangelischen Kirche im Rheinland
• Landesarchiv Speyer
• Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz
• Zentralarchiv der Evangelischen Kirche der Pfalz

• Archiv der Diakonissen Speyer-Mannheim (Mutterhausarchiv)
• Bibliothek St. German
• Bistumsarchiv Trier
• Bistumsarchiv Speyer
• Dom- und Diözesanarchiv Mainz
• Institut für pfälzische Geschichte und Volkskunde
• Stadtarchiv Speyer
• Stadtarchiv Worms
• Universitätsarchiv Mainz

Saarland

• Zentralarchiv der Evangelischen Kirche der Pfalz
• Archiv der Evangelischen Kirche im Rheinland

• Universitätsarchiv Saarbrücken
  

 

Saxony

• Landeskirchenarchiv der Evang.-Luth. Landeskirche Sachsens

• Bistumsarchiv Görlitz
• Diözesanarchiv des Bistums Dresden-Meißen
• Sächsisches Staatsarchiv (Staatsarchiv Leipzig)

 

Saxony Anhalt

• Landeskirchenarchiv Magdeburg
• Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evangelischen Landeskirche Anhalts

• Bistumsarchiv Magdeburg

Schleswig-Holstein

LE Note: Browse under the Norddeutschland: Landeskirchliches Archiv Evang.-Luth. Kirche where some Kirchenkreis are listed for Hamburg-West Südholstein; Ostholstein and Schleswig-Flensburg.

Thuringia

• Landeskirchenarchiv Eisenach

• Bistumsarchiv Erfurt

 

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