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 as of earlier this year 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. Newly added are church books for the church district of Lauenburg and the city of Lübeck.
Passes -- Paid-Access starting from time of purchase.
3-Month Pass is regularly €52.20 now on sale for €41.75 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 €143 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.
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
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Note: Browse under the Norddeutschland: Landeskirchliches Archiv
Evang.-Luth. Kirche where some Kirchenkreis are listed for Dithmarschen; Hamburg-West
Südholstein; Nordfriesland; Ostholstein, Rantzau-Münsterdorf; Rendsburg-Eckernförde; Schleswig-Flensburg, and now Lauenburg-Lübeck.
Thuringia
- Landeskirchenarchiv Eisenach
- Bistumsarchiv Erfurt
See you soon (some day) at our favorite library!
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