Berlin Evangelical Parish Jurisdictions

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Berlin Evangelical Parish Jurisdictions

Research in Berlin is complicated by the great size of the city and the large number of parishes.

How to use the Berlin Address Books

The directories are divided in sections.  Of greatest genealogical value are the alphabetized listings of city inhabitants with addresses.  Search for your ancestor under the alphabetical listing of names in the time period your ancestor lived in Berlin.  When you find your ancestor listed, write down the street and house number where he resided.   Then turn to the listing ot that street in the Street guide at the link above to determine which parish he attended in the years closest to the time period that you know he lived in Berlin.

Other sections of the directories are businesses, public offices, societies, inhabitants' addresses listed under the street they resided, rather than alphabetically by their name.  The suburbs of Berlin were in many, but not all of the directories. 

Berlin Suburbs

Baumschulenweg (Treptow), Boxhagen-Rummelsburg, Britz, Charlottenburg, dahlem, Friedenau, Friedrichsberg, Friedrichsfelde, Grunewald, halensee, Heinersdorf, Hohen Schönhausen, Karlshorst, Lankwitz, Lichtenberg, Groß Lichterfelde, mariendorf, Nieder-Schönhausen and Schönholz, Nikolassee, Ober-Schönweide, Pankow, Plötzensee, Reinickendorf, Rixdorf, Schlactensee, Schmargendorf, Schöneberg, Schönholz, Steglitz, Stralau, Südende, Tegel, Tempelhof, Weißensee, neu-Weißensee, Westend, Wilhelmsberg, Wilmersdorf, and Zehlendorf.

About the City Address Directories

The directories on film can be found here .  The online link can be found at this site Berlin City Directories .  The directories begin in the year 1799 and continue through 1943 online and on film.  The address books have a section arranged by streets and house numbers within a street and have a graph showing different jurisdictions, such as poverty assistance office, orphanages, school districts, court districts, parishes, police districts, and postal districts.  The directories for some years also include the voting districts.  These street indexes within the address books are the source of the Street guides that are found at the above link.

Street indexes were included in the address books from 1874-1925.  After 1925 parish jurisdictions are listed in parish indexes.  in this system each parish is listed alphabetically with the streets and house numbers which are assigned to it.  Occasionally street indexes note more than one parish for an entire street or certain house numbers within the street.  In such cases, the inhabitants apparently had a choice of attending any of the parishes listed. 

The format of the street indexes varies from year to year.  For example, some directories list parish jurisdictions by house humbers; others list the jurisdictions by a street to street description such as "From Krupp street to Perleberger".  In such cases there is no way to cross reference the descriptive and house number entries, therefore the descriptions are listed in this register as they were listed in the orignal street indexes.

Some streets were named only with a number, such as Street 19 [Straß 19].  There appears to have been some inconsistency in the way these streets were listed from year to year.  In some cases there seems to be duplicate usage of certain numbers and the actual parish jurisdictions are not always clear.  It may be necessary to check each of the parishes associated with the street number.  These streets named by numbers only, was not included in the 1917 directoory.

Some streets did not exist in earlier years, but apparently came into existence as new housing developed.  Other streets are listed in the earlier street indexes but are not listed in the later ones.  It is not certain if these omissions were accidental or if the street names were changed or discontinued.  It is also possible that there were no residences on those streets in all years covered by directories.  For this reason, parish jurisdictions may not be listed for all streets in Berlin for all years in the street guide registers. 

For residents on streets near the train stations [Eisenbahn], look under the heading of Eisenbahn for the specific train station needed.

The Cathedral [Dom] did not have any specific streets assigned to it.  So you should check the cathedral records for births, marriages and deaths if your ancestors are not found in the records of their assigned parish.  The Charite parish also has no streets assigned to it, but was a part of Sankt Petri parish.  The Family History Library has records for both the Petri and Charite parishes and the Dom parish.

Spelling and Alphabetization

The inconsistant spelling of street names from one directory to the next is a problem.  In the cases wehre alternate spellings were used, such as the street name of "Colonie" which is also listed as "Kolonie", they are listed twice in the Street Guide for easier reference.  Other variations in street names are handled the same way as in the case of "Ostbahnhof" which is also listed as "Am Ostbahnhof".

In the original street indexes the street called "Unter den Linden" is listed as "Linden, Unter den".  The Street Guides lists these types of localities as "Unter den Linden".  This method was applied consistently also for "Am, An der, Alte, Neue, Hinter dem, Klein, Groß, and similar prefiexes on street names.  Words with an Umlaut were alphabetized in the Street Guides as though there were no Umlauts.  The German letter "ß" os a;[jabetozed as "ss".

Berlin Street Guide Parish Information

The following chart is a list of Berlin parishes included in the Street Guide Register:

Parish name	Parent Parish	Year Organized	Records Begin
Advents	Bartholomäus	1906	1906
Andreas  **	Georgen	1854	1854
Auferstehungs	Markus	1895	1895
Bartholomäus	Georgen	1854	1854
Charite **	Petri	1779	1779
Christus	Dreifaltigkeit	1894	1894
Dankeskirche	Gnaden, Nazareth, Paulus	1884	1884
Dom **		1616	1616
Dorotheenstadt **	United with Friedrichs Werder	1676	1676
Dreifaltigkeits **	Jerusalem	1739	1739
Elias	Gethsemane	1907	1907
Elisabeth **	Sophien	1835	1835
Emmaus	Thomas	1887	1887
Erlöser	Heilands	1912	1912
Friedens	Bartholomäus	1892	1892
Friedrichs Werder **	United with Dorotheenstadt	1680	1680
Galiläa	Samariter	1911	1910
Georgen **	Nicolai	1689	1689
Gethsemane	Zions	1893	1893
Gnaden **	Invalidenhaus	1892	1816
Golgotha  *	Elisabeth	1874	1874
Heilands	Johannes Moabit	1896	1896
Heilige Geist	Johannes Moabit	1907	1907
Heiligen Kreuz *	Jacobi, Jerusalem, Dreifaltigkeits	1865	1865
Himmelfahrt	Elisabeth, Friedens	1894	1894
Immanuel	Bartholomäus	1894	1894
Invalidenhaus **	Johannes Moabit	1747	1816
Jacobi **	Luisenstadt	1845	1845
Jerusalem **	Petri	1697	1697
Johann Evangelist **	Elisabeth	1856	1856
Johannis Moabit **	Sophien	1835	1835
Kaiser Friedrich Gedächtnis	Dorotheenstadt	1896	1896
Kaiser Wilhelm Gedächtnis	Luisen, Mattäus, Wilmersdorf	1896	1896
Kapernaum	Nazareth	1903	1902
Lazurus	Markus	1896	1895
Lukas *	Steglitz Stadt	1865	1865
Luisenstadt **	Kölln Stadt	1694	1694
Luther	Zwölf Apostol	1895	1895
Marien **	Nicolai	1583	1583
Markus **	Georgen	1854	1854
Martha	Emmaus	1904	1904
Mattäus **	Dreifaltigkeit	1846	1846
Melancthon	Nikolai	1916	1916
Nazareth **	Sophien	1835	1835
Neue Kirche **	Petri	1697	1697
Nikolai **	Marien	1583	1583
Oelberg	Emmaus	1910	1910
Oster	Nazareth	1908	1908
Passion	Heiligen Kreuz	1908	1908
Paul Gerhardt	Gethsemane	1907	1907
Paulus *	Sophien	1835	1835
Petri **	Kölln Stadt	1643	1643
Philippus Apostol **	Sophien	1852	1852
Pfingst	Auferstehungs	1906	1906
Reformations	Heilands	1907	1907
Samariter	Markus	1896	1894
Segens	Zions	1908	1908
Simeons *	Jacobi	1868	1868
Sophien **	Georgen	1712	1712
Stephanus	Paulus	1905	1904
Tabor	Emmaus	1906	1905
Thomas *	Luisenstadt	1864	1864
Versöhnungs	Elisabeth	1893	1893
Zions *	Elisabeth, Bartholomäus, Andreas
Zwingli	Andreas	1908	1908
Zwölf Apostol *	Schöneberg Stadt	1864	1864

A single asterisk * indicates that some records of the parish have been microfilmed and are available for research at the Family History Library and Family History Centers.  A double asterisk ** indicates that some or all of the available records have been extracted through the FamilySearch's extraction program.

Although there are many other parishes in Berlin, they were not included in the book because the information was not available: they were not listed in the street indexes of Berlin; and no other sources available provided the information necessary to identify the parish boundaries.  Perhaps some of them were smaller denominations and may have had only one parish in the city which served the entire city of Berlin.  Other parishes which were not included may have served specific groups of people such as the military parish, the orphan's parish and prison parish.